--- title: Donald Trump: Joe Biden Says He Should Stop Tweeting description: Former Vice President Joe Biden has some advice for President Trump: "I would literally stop tweeting and start focusing." canonical: https://time.com/4720377/joe-biden-donald-trump-advice-twitter/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-31T12:02:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T04:08:23.933Z article:section: Politics og:title: Joe Biden Offers Piece of Advice to President Trump: ‘I Would Literally Stop Tweeting’ og:description: The former VP has some advice for President Trump og:url: https://time.com/4720377/joe-biden-donald-trump-advice-twitter/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt47c63ab962f5078b/6988c0b92dce010c0f9ecd6e/gettyimages-656509770.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Joe Biden Joins House Democrats At Event Marking 7-Year Anniversary Of ACA og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Joe Biden Offers Piece of Advice to President Trump: ‘I Would Literally Stop Tweeting’ twitter:description: The former VP has some advice for President Trump twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt47c63ab962f5078b/6988c0b92dce010c0f9ecd6e/gettyimages-656509770.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Joe Biden Offers Piece of Advice to President Trump: ‘I Would Literally Stop Tweeting’ > Sponsored content. 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Alex Wong—Getty Images  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Mar 31, 2017 12:02 PM UTC Former Vice President [Joe Biden](http://time.com/4713618/joe-biden-regret-president/?iid=sr-link4) has some words of advice for President Trump about his social media habits. “I would literally stop tweeting and start focusing,” Biden said Thursday at an event at the University of Pennsylvania, [CNN reports](http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/30/politics/joe-biden-donald-trump-hillary-clinton/index.html?sr=twpol033117joe-biden-donald-trump-hillary-clinton0933AMVODtopLink&linkId=36037632). “The words of a president matter. They have enormous, enormous, enormous, reverberating sounds around the world. Every time a U.S. president speaks and says something, leaders and people around the world try to dissect what he means because it matters so much to their security, threats they face, whatever it is.” Biden also repeated a piece of advice he’d [already given](http://time.com/4624814/joe-biden-donald-trump-grow-up/?iid=sr-link1) to the new president: “Grow up.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4720377/joe-biden-donald-trump-advice-twitter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4720377/joe-biden-donald-trump-advice-twitter/"},"headline":"Joe Biden Offers Piece of Advice to President Trump: ‘I Would Literally Stop Tweeting’","datePublished":"2017-03-31T12:02:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T04:08:23.933Z","description":"The former VP has some advice for President Trump","url":"https://time.com/4720377/joe-biden-donald-trump-advice-twitter/","keywords":["Joe Biden","White House","onetime","president trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt47c63ab962f5078b/6988c0b92dce010c0f9ecd6e/gettyimages-656509770.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt47c63ab962f5078b/6988c0b92dce010c0f9ecd6e/gettyimages-656509770.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Joe Biden Joins House Democrats At Event Marking 7-Year Anniversary Of ACA","caption":"Joe Biden Joins House Democrats At Event Marking 7-Year Anniversary Of ACA","creditText":"Alex Wong—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4720377/joe-biden-donald-trump-advice-twitter/","name":"Joe Biden Offers Piece of Advice to President Trump: ‘I Would Literally Stop Tweeting’"}}]}] ```