President Trump said he felt like former Vice President Joe Biden when he wanted a general to give him a kiss.
Trump said that while visiting Iraq, a general who he said goes by the name “Razin’ Caine” told him that they could defeat ISIS in one week, as opposed to the two years others had estimated.
“I said, ‘General, come here, give me a kiss,’” Trump said during the National Republican Congressional Committee dinner Tuesday night, recalling his interaction with the general. “I felt like Joe Biden. But I meant it.”
Trump is referencing the recent allegations by women that Biden touched them inappropriately, including Lucy Flores, who claims Biden engaged in unwelcome and uncomfortable physical contact with her in 2004.
The claims by Flores, a former Nevada assemblywoman and gubernatorial candidate, brought forward other instances where women have felt Biden had been too touchy with them, several of which were photographed.
Flores said in her account of the events, which she published in The Cut on Friday, that Biden had come up close behind her at an event in 2004, put his hands on her shoulders, and kissed the top of her head.
Many have defended Biden, saying that he is a hands-on person.
On Tuesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Biden should “join the straight-arm club with me” and keep his hands off other people.
