evidence: Biden and Trump had brief ‘respectful’ phone call after assassination attempt at rally ‘We cannot be like this. We cannot condone this,’ Biden said [...] The president said every American must condemn political violence after the shooting. "It’s sick," Biden said. "It’s sick." [...] "The bottom line is that the Trump rally was a rally that he should have been able to be conducted peacefully, without any problem ... the idea that there's political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of. It's just not appropriate. And we, everybody, everybody must condemn it," the president said.