Donald Trump trolls Democrat Joe Biden on Twitter over apology for touching women
- President tweets doctored video of former vice-president promising to be ‘more mindful about respecting personal space’
US President Donald Trump on Thursday deployed his trademark blend of crude humour and Twitter to mock potential election rival Joe Biden’s apology for having touched women without permission.
Biden, an undeclared hopeful for the Democratic nomination to take on Trump in 2020, earlier tweeted a short video earlier in which he promised to respect “personal space” more in the future.
Trump responded by posting a doctored version of the video in which an image of Biden creeps up behind the actual Biden and puts his hands on his shoulders.
“WELCOME BACK JOE!” Trump wrote in the message.
The president also pinned the message at the top of his Twitter page.
The joking tweet is in keeping with Trump’s history of mocking opponents with sexual innuendo, school playground-style nicknames, and torrents of tweets.
In September 2017, he retweeted a video splicing footage of him hitting a golf ball and former 2016 presidential opponent Hillary Clinton falling over, so it seemed she was knocked down by his ball.