US President Donald Trump said Friday he was revoking Joe Biden's security clearance, ending his predecessor's right to receive intelligence briefings after leaving office.
"There is no need for Joe Biden to continue receiving access to classified information," Trump said on his Truth Social network.
"Therefore, we are immediately revoking Joe Biden's Security Clearances, and stopping his daily Intelligence Briefings."
In a reference to the catchphrase of his former reality TV show "The Apprentice," Trump added in capitals: "JOE, YOU'RE FIRED."
US presidents are traditionally given the right to receive intelligence briefings even after they step down.
Trump said he was making the move because Democrat Biden had removed his own security clearance after winning the 2020 election.
Biden at the time cited Trump's "erratic behavior" both before and after the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol by protesters trying to overturn Trump's election loss.
In his post on Friday, Trump claimed that Biden "could not be trusted" with intelligence briefings because a special counsel's report into classified documents found at the Democrat's home found that Biden, 82, suffered from "poor memory."
Trump was also prosecuted for mishandling classified documents but the Justice Department ended the case after the Republican won the 2024 election.
Trump freezes aid to South Africa
President Donald Trump on Friday froze US aid to South Africa, citing a law in the country that he alleges allows land to be seized from white farmers, despite Johannesburg's denials.
The law would "enable the government of South Africa to seize ethnic minority Afrikaners' agricultural property without compensation," Trump said in an executive order, which also noted foreign policy clashes between the two countries over the Middle East.
Land ownership is a contentious issue in South Africa with most farmland still owned by white people three decades after the end of apartheid and the government under pressure to implement reforms.
Trump added that the United States would "promote the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination."
The US president has recently claimed that South Africa was confiscating land via the expropriation act signed last month, a charge the South African government has described as misinformation.
Trump's ally Elon Musk, who was born in South Africa, has accused South African President Cyril Ramaphosa's government of having "openly racist ownership laws."
Attempts to license Musk's Starlink satellite internet service in South Africa have reportedly been delayed by a policy that requires major companies to provide 30 percent equity to historically disadvantaged groups.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has also said he would skip upcoming G20 talks in South Africa, accusing the host government of having an "anti-American" agenda.