The former first minister of Northern Ireland has said that the US president 'hates' the UK

Commenting on the likely impact of Joe Biden's brief visit to Northern Ireland, Mrs Foster said the "pro republican and pro nationalist" track record of the president meant he had "no kudos" with the largest unionist party.

Mr Biden flew into RAF Aldergrove on Tuesday night and stayed at the Grand Central Hotel in Belfast city centre, before giving an address to the University of Ulster.

The former DUP leader and Northern Ireland first minister told GB News that Mr Biden has no chance of putting pressure on the DUP to re-enter the power-sharing executive at Stormont.

"[Joe Biden] hates the United Kingdom, I don't think there's any doubt about that. I just think the fact that he is coming here won't put any pressure on the Democratic Unionist Party at all, quite the reverse actually because he is seen by so many people as just simply pro republican and pro nationalist".

Mrs Foster said: "He talks about the Belfast Agreement, but the Belfast Agreement is very clear that Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom until such times that the people of Northern Ireland decide otherwise, and he needs to remember that when he's talking about the Belfast Agreement, because we know that he is the most partisan president there has ever been when dealing with Northern Ireland.

"It goes right back to the 1980s when we did actually have a special relationship with the then US president Ronald Regan and our own prime minister Margaret Thatcher and, at that time, as a senator, spoke against helping to extradite IRA suspects to the UK to face trial."

Mrs Foster said he was also, more recently, photographed with on-the-run IRA suspect Rita O'Hare and Gerry Adams, "despite the fact that she was wanted for the attempted murder of a soldier back in 1971".

Mrs Foster said: "That didn't bother Joe Biden, he was happy to be photographed with her. The list goes on and on in relation to his dismissal of the British people living here in Northern Ireland."

She added: "I don't think he has any kudos with the DUP at all. He has no standing with them."