US President Donald Trump speaks during the 2018 White House business session with state governors in the State dining room of the White House on February 26, 2018, in Washington, DC. (AFP PHOTO)
WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump lashed out Thursday at Joe Biden for wanting to “beat the hell out of him,” saying the former vice president “would go down fast and hard, crying all the way.”
The Republican president tweeted: “Crazy Joe Biden is trying to act like a tough guy. Actually, he is weak, both mentally and physically, and yet he threatens me, for the second time, with physical assault.
“He doesn’t know me, but he would go down fast and hard, crying all the way. Don’t threaten people Joe!” Trump added.
In this March 6, 2018 file photo, former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at a rally in support of Conor Lamb, the Democratic candidate for the March 13 special election in Pennsylvania’s 18th Congressional District in Collier. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
Biden spoke at an anti-sexual assault rally in Florida on Tuesday and cited lewd comments Trump made in a 2005 “Access Hollywood” tape about grabbing women.
“A guy who ended up becoming our national leader said, ‘I can grab a woman anywhere and she likes it,'” Biden says. “If we were in high school, I’d take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him.”
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Biden says any guy who disrespected women was “usually the fattest, ugliest S.O.B. in the room.”
The school’s “It’s on Us” rally sought to change on-campus culture surrounding sexual assault.
Biden, 75, made similar comments in the closing days of the 2016 campaign. He has kept open the possibility of a 2020 bid for president and is gearing up to play a big role campaigning for Democrats running in this year’s midterm elections.
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Trump, 71, dismissed the prospect of a Biden run recently at the annual Gridiron Dinner with Washington journalists, calling him “Sleepy Joe” and saying he could “kick his ass.” Trump also attacked Biden on Twitter in 2016, calling him “Our not very bright Vice President.”
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