Biden Warns Trump Will Absolutely Not Go Peacefully In New Interview: ‘He Means What He Says!’

President Joe Biden warned that if former President Donald Trump loses, he will make good on promises of a “bloodbath” in a new CBS News interview.

On Wednesday, President Biden recorded an interview with Bob Costa for CBS Sunday Morning . It is Biden’s first interview since his debate performance touched off calls for him to drop out, after which the president announced he would no longer be seeking a second term — and minutes later threw his support behind Vice President and now-presumptive Democratic nominee for president Kamala Harris .

The full interview airs on Sunday, August 11, but in a preview clip released Wednesday night, the president sounded the alarm if Trump wins — even though Costa asked about a peaceful transfer of power if Trump were to win:

ROBERT COSTA: Are you confident that there will be a peaceful transfer of power in January 2025 if Trump wins?

PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: No, I’m not confident at all! I mean, if Trump loses, I’m not confident at all! He means what he says! We don’t take him seriously. He means all this stuff about if we lose, there’ll be a bloodbath. He’s– have been stolen–.

Look what they’re trying to do now. In the local election districts where people count the votes? Are electing. They’re putting people in place in states that are– they’re going to count the votes, right? You can’t love your country only when you win.

Trump gave a speech in Dayton, Ohio in March during which he made the remark that “if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath” — after discussing trade policy.

Trump’s campaign objected to criticism by claiming his remarks about tariffs are the only context in which the remark should be interpreted, while some journalists and Trump critics have placed the remark in context with Trump’s history of encouraging and inciting violence.

Watch above via CBS News’s CBS Sunday Morning .