Trump has indicated in an interview to Politico that he does not consider anyone but Biden, a veteran in the ever-growing and extremely diverse Democratic field, a challenger in the 2020 presidential elections.

"I look at it like my race," Trump said. Relishing the memories from his own campaign, Trump said he emerged as a frontrunner in the Republican primary polls as soon as he jumped into the campaign in June 2015, or in Trump's own words, as he "came down the escalator" of his Trump Tower following the announcement.

That is not exactly true, as Trump briefly trailed behind former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush in his first polls and was generally considered an underdog even within Republican ranks. However, he stunned the experts in no time by coming out on top of the race as soon as the following month.

Unlike Trump, Biden, who officially entered the Democratic primary race last month, was considered to be a favorite to capture the Democratic nomination long before he actually unveiled his bid. According to a recent Morning Consult poll, Biden may boast a commanding 21 percent lead over his closest pursuer Bernie Sanders (who has 19 percent). The gap between Sanders and the rest of the pack is almost as gigantic. The third place is occupied by Elizabeth Warren with just 8 percent.

Trump argued that many of the Democratic presidential contenders seem to be out of touch with the public, bringing up Sanders as an example of a person who "seems to be going in the wrong direction."

The US President laughed off the chances of Pete Buttigieg, likening him to a fictitious cartoon character in the American humor magazine 'Mad.'

"Alfred E. Neuman cannot become president of the United States," he said.

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Asked if he is going to push for a probe into Biden's role in the sacking of the Ukrainian prosecutor general who reportedly investigated the Ukrainian gas company which employed his son, Trump said that he did not discuss the issue with US Attorney General William Barr. At the same time, he did not rule out taking the possible conflict of interest up with Barr in the future as it  "would be an appropriate thing to do."

Trump said that media appear to go soft on Biden, because he is a Democrat, arguing that if Trump himself was in a similar situation, they would cut him no slack.

"Because he's a Democrat it's about 1/100 the size of the fact that if he were a Republican, it would be a lot bigger," Trump said. He added he would discuss the issue with his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, who, per his own admission to the New York Times on Thursday, was going to Kiev to help boost the investigations into Ukraine's pro-Clinton meddling and the Biden family dealings. 

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