2020 front-runner Joe Biden compared President Trump to a bully he’d “smack” in the mouth, in a Friday morning interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo.
“Sure it worries me, in the sense that I’m looking forward to this, man. You walk behind me in a debate, come here, man. Don’t you think — you know me too well. The idea that I’d be intimidated by Donald Trump? He’s the bully that I knew my whole life,” Biden stated.
“He’s the bully that I’ve always stood up to. He’s the bully that used to make fun when I was a kid that I stutter, and I’d smack them in the mouth,” the former vice president added. “But I think the American people want a president who has some dignity, who has a value set, who is actually trying to restore the soul of this country so when they turn on the television they look up and their kids say, ‘I want to be like that guy or that woman.’”
Biden’s remarks are similar to a verbal altercation that occurred between the two in the spring of last year.
Last March, the former vice president said that if someone made comments similar to the ones that Trump made in the Access Hollywood tape to him he’d respond by beating “the hell out of him” if he were in high school.
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
Trump then responded on Twitter accusing Biden of “trying to act like a tough guy,” but added that “he is weak, both mentally and physically.”
Biden later to apologized for the remarks during an interview on the “Pod Save America” podcast.
