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Septuagenarian smackdown?
Trump, Biden trade ghting words
By CATHERINE LUCEY, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Imagine: A pay-per-view steel-cage ght featuring Donald “Kick His A--” Trump versus Joe “Beat the Hell Out of Him” Biden. Price to tune in? Enough to eliminate the govern- ment’s de cit.
e Republican president and the for- mer Democratic vice president are trading ghting words over who’d come out on top in a hypothetical matchup.
Trump, reacting to taunts Biden made earlier in the week, tweeted ursday: “Crazy Joe Biden is trying to act like a tough guy. Actually, he is weak, both men- tally 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!”
At a University of Miami rally Tuesday against sexual assault, Biden cited lewd comments that candidate Trump made
in a 2005 “Access Hollywood” tape about grabbing women without their permission.
“If we were in high school, I’d take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him,” Biden said. He also said any man who disrespected women was “usually the
fattest, ugliest SOB in the room.”
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.
Trump, 71, dismissed the prospect of a Biden run recently at the annual Gridiron Dinner with Washington journalists, call- ing 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.”
Biden refrained from re-upping his taunts in an appearance ursday in Washington, just blocks from the White House. He stuck to the promised sub- ject of protecting U.S. workers in the age of globalization during a speech at the Newseum.
Politics
Trump: Take my advice, don’t run for president
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pres- ident Donald Trump has a little advice for entrepreneurs of the future: Don’t run for president.
Trump addressed young people ursday at a White House event called “Generation Next.” During a question and answer session with conserva- tive activist Charlie Kirk, Trump was asked to o er guidance to a
young version of himself. “Don’t run for president,”
Trump said amid laughter. He added that he used to get great publicity before he ran for president.
e forum was attended by college Republicans and others. It focused on a number of top- ics, including taxes, jobs and the opioid crisis.
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