Donald Trump has lambasted his predecessor President Joe Biden for the "tremendous disrespect" he has shown towards the troops who lost their lives in Afghanistan.

On Thursday, August 26, explosions and gunfire erupted outside Hamid Karzai International Airport as thousands of Afghans tried to flee Afghanistan after the Taliban seized control some weeks earlier.

Thirteen US troops were killed in what was later reported to be an ISIS-K suicide bombing attack - including 11 Marines, one Navy corpsman, and one Army soldier.

A fierce critic of the incumbent president, former leader Trump is now taking his Democratic counterpart to task over his "tremendous disrespect" for the military members who died in the terror attack.

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Speaking to Clay Travis and Buck Sexton on their podcast, Trump said in reference to the dignified transfer ceremony in honor of the 13 troops, per Fox News: "Tremendous disrespect was paid by Biden when he kept looking at his watch over and over again - every time a coffin came off the plane, he was looking at his watch."

"The parents are angry, as they should be," he added. "Nobody should've been killed [but] after I got out, Abdul and his group went wild."

Days after the suicide bombing, the remains of the slain US troops were brought back home as part of a dignified transfer ceremony in honor of the servicemen.

Biden had widely been condemned for his conduct at the ceremony, having reportedly checked the time on his watch several times while the caskets were carried off an airplane at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.

A number of the parents of the slain troops, also present at the ceremony, have even publicly hit out at the 78-year-old leader.

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Also during his chat with Travis and Sexton, Trump criticized Biden over the way US withdrawal from Afghanistan played out.

Last year, the 45th president had arranged a peace deal with the Taliban to bring the US forces back home following a 20-year war.

If Trump had still been in charge, he believes, "It would've been the exact opposite."

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Trump blasts Biden’s ‘tremendous disrespect’ for US troops killed in Afghanistan