FORMER US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has criticised his successor Joe Biden for taking a trip to Ireland “while the world is exploding around us”.

Trump made the dig at Biden in a Fox News interview as he insisted that he was innocent of making hush money payments to a porn star.

“He’s now in Ireland,” Trump began.

“He’s not going to have a news conference, when the world is exploding.”

“I own property in Ireland. I’m not going to Ireland, the world is exploding around us. You can end up in a third world war and this guy’s gonna be in Ireland,” he said.

"The world is exploding around us. You could end up in a third world war. And this guy's gonna be in Ireland?" -- Trump on Biden's brief trip to Ireland pic.twitter.com/Tme2FNOVZ9

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 12, 2023

Trump added that people working at the Manhattan courthouse where he was charged with 34 felonies last week were crying, apologising to him and expressing support for his 2024 presidential run.

“They were crying, they said ‘I’m sorry. 2024 sir, 2024′. I’ve never seen anything like it, those people are phenomenal.”

Prosecutors say the 45th US president falsified records about three payments made to Stormy Daniels to keep potentially damaging stories from coming to light as he campaigned for the presidency.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said it was his effort to cover up crimes related to the 2016 election that allowed prosecutors to elevate the charges to felonies.

Trump, who has pleaded not guilty to the charges, vowed that even if he was convicted he would run for the presidency a third time: “I’d never drop out, it’s not my thing”.