In the past several months, countless Asian Americans have been punched and kicked and threatened, told that they'll be sorry if they don't leave this country — their country.

Deflecting blame for his own failure to heed the warnings of experts to prepare for this crisis, Trump has stood in the White House briefing room day after day and pulled from the same cynical playbook he's relied on so many times before, stoking grievances and using the same politics of division that helped him get elected in the first place, this time by casting Asian Americans as the "other." As if they are a deviation from those who are "actually" American.

No insult, no insinuation — even when it comes from the president in the middle of the Rose Garden telling an Asian American reporter to "ask China" — can change the fact that Asian Americans are just as American as anyone else lucky enough to be a daughter or a on of the United States.

has led the world for decades is not just by the example of our power, but by the power of our example.

has led the world for decades is not just by the example of our power, but by the power of our example.

As much as we all wish and hope, it is clear that Trump will never rise to the awesome responsibility that comes with the title President of the United States.

As our neighbors are spit on and beat up because of the color of their skin, it is more obvious than ever how important it is that we make this the last Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with Trump in the White House.

Joe Biden is a former vice president of the United States and the presumptive Democratic nominee for president