Joe Biden finds Donald Trump's White House renovations "disturbing".

The US President is overseeing major changes to the residence - including the demolition of the East Wing to make way for a new ballroom - but his predecessor sees Trump's actions as an attempt to "create monuments to himself".

In an interview with People magazine, Biden said: "I find it disturbing... I've viewed the President's judgement in tearing down the East Wing and a number of other things as nothing more than to try and create monuments to himself: 'I built that.'

"I find it beneath the country."

Biden was diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer in May 2025 - just four months after his term in the White House ended - and explained that he would have dropped out of the 2024 election campaign far earlier than he ultimately did had he known he was suffering from the disease.

The 83-year-old politician said: "What can I say, because there's no evidence of it - if I had known that I was feeling lousy because I had cancer, I would have resigned.

"I would've not gone forward, because I don't think an 80-year-old man with cancer should be running for (President). But that wasn't the case... I believe that on an objective basis, I was the best-equipped person to do the job."

Biden announced that the cancer had spread to his bones when he revealed his diagnosis but stressed that the situation is "very positive" in his fight against the illness.

He said: "It looks very positive. There's a lot of people who've been diagnosed with cancer, particularly the kind of cancer I have, who live long lives, who live for another 10, 20 years.

"And so far, the two tests that have been done show that the cancer is not metastasized beyond what it already was... There are eight different pills I take a day."

Biden also rejected suggestions that he hid his cancer diagnosis during his time as President.

Asked why some reacted in that way, he said: "A lot of people do that. They hide bad news from the public if they're elected officials. I didn't do that.

"We let the public know when I found out, when I knew what was going on.

"I think it's important for a national leader, as President, to let people know they go through some of the very same things a lot of American people are going through... I wasn't hiding it at all."