Trump Warns ‘Crazy Joe Biden’ After Former VP Says He Deserves Beating Over Access Hollywood Tape

President Donald Trump fired back at Joe Biden Thursday morning, after the former vice president said that he would “beat the hell out of” the sitting commander in chief.

“They asked me would I like to debate this gentleman, and I said ‘no,’” Biden said on Tuesday, at a talk on sexual harassment. “I said, ‘If we were in high school, I’d take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him.’”

Trump has now responded to Biden’s remarks on Twitter, suggesting he would best the former veep in a fist fight.

“Crazy Joe Biden is trying to act like a tough guy,” Trump wrote. “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!”

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!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 22, 2018

Biden had been speaking about the Access Hollywood tape before University of Miami College Democrats.

“I’ve been in a lot of locker rooms my whole life. I’m a pretty damn good athlete,” he told the crowd. “Any guy that talked that way was usually the fattest, ugliest S.O.B. in the room.”

Back during the 2016 election, Biden made similar remarks at a Hillary Clinton rally: “The press always ask me, ‘Don’t I wish I were debating him?’ No, I wish we were in high school — I could take him behind the gym. That’s what I wish,” Biden said.

Trump responded recently at the Gridiron Club Dinner in Washington: “Oh, just trust me, I would kick his ass. He’d be easy.”

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