President Biden and former President Trump spoke by phone on Monday after the assassination attempt on the Republican candidate on a golf course in Florida.
“It was a very good call – it was about Secret Service protection,” Trump said in a statement.
The White House described the call as “cordial,” with Biden saying: [Trump] It's safe.”
Earlier in the day, Biden expressed relief that Trump was safe and said the Secret Service “needs more help.”
“If they actually need more military personnel, then I think Congress should respond to their needs. So that's what we'll be talking about,” Biden told reporters.
Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, was charged with two gun offenses on Monday after he was accused of pressing a rifle against a fence around Trump's golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida, and being shot by a Secret Service agent.
The incident came nearly two months after a gunman shot the former president in the ear at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, leaving one rally attendee and the gunman dead.
On Monday, Trump accused Biden and Vice President Harris, his rivals in the November election, of inciting violence against him.
“I'm under attack because of what they're saying and what they're doing. I'm in a position to save our country and they're destroying it from the inside and the outside,” Trump told Fox News Digital.
Both Biden and Harris have warned that Trump poses a serious threat to democracy and freedoms such as access to reproductive health care. They have both condemned Sunday's incident and political violence in general.
