Joe Biden and Donald Trump Feud

Overview

Joe Biden and Donald Trump Feud refers to exchanged threats of physical violence between former Vice President Joe Biden and current United States President Donald Trump. The threats were joked about on Twitter as people imagined what a fight between the two would look like.

Background

On March 20th, 2018, Joe Biden spoke at the University of Miami, where he spoke to students about the President. Referring to Trump's infamous leaked tapes where he bragged about sexually assaulting women, Biden stated "“A guy who ended up becoming our national leader said, ‘I can grab a woman anywhere and she likes it.’ … They asked me if I’d like to debate this gentleman, and I said no. I said, ‘If we were in high school, I’d take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him.’”^[1]

Developments

On March 22nd, 2018, Donald Trump tweeted in response to Biden's quote, saying that if he were to fight Biden, Biden would "go down fast and hard, crying all the way."^[2]

The escalating feud became the subject of articles on CNN,^[3] Deadline,^[4] and BBC.^[5]

Social Media Reactions

Online, social media users joked about the proposed fight by imagining what it would look like. For example, Twitter user @JayCaruso posted a picture of ponies from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fighting (shown below, left). Film critic Kyle Smith posted a screenshot from Grumpy Old Men imagining the fight, gaining over 40 retweets and 120 likes (shown below, right). These responses were covered by The Huffington Post.^[6]

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