Biden and Jen Psaki branded hypocrites after their tweets criticizing Trump resurface

U.S. President Joe Biden and his press chief have been accused of hypocrisy after old tweets slamming the Trump administration's Syria air strikes resurfaced following the Biden administration's first air raid in Syria, the Daily Mail reports.

U.S. President Joe Biden and former U.S. President Donald Trump. [File Photo: AFP]

The U.S. dropped seven 500-pound precision-guided bombs in the air raid on Thursday that reportedly killed 22 pro-Iran fighters.

The strike has drawn accusations of double standards because Biden previously referred to Donald Trump as "erratic" and "impulsive" for threatening to bomb Iran, while press secretary Jen Psaki questioned the legality of attacking Syria.

Four years ago, Psaki, now White House press secretary, questioned what the Trump administration's "legal authority for strikes" was in Syria following a Trump-ordered military action.

"Assad is a brutal dictator," she tweeted, "but Syria is a sovereign country."

A condemnatory tweet from Biden also resurfaced, in which he ripped into Trump's military action against Iran in June 2019, which he called “erratic” and “impulsive.”

"Trump's erratic, impulsive actions are the last thing we need as Commander-in-Chief. No president should order a military strike without fully understanding the consequences," Biden wrote.