The incident happened just days after Donald Trump featured an image of Bill Clinton chomping down on a cigar in an Instagram video. | Getty Bill Clinton meets man bearing cigars in New Mexico

While campaigning for his wife in New Mexico on Wednesday, former President Bill Clinton encountered what the traveling pool reporter saw as "a man with five cigars tucked into his white ankle tube socks."

According to the report, the man at the Bernalillo, New Mexico, restaurant explained to Clinton that he had them secured in that fashion "so they don't get crushed."


“Yep, that’s a great idea,” he told the man, who then offered a stogie to the former president, just days after Donald Trump featured an image of Clinton chomping down on a cigar in an Instagram video that included the voices of two women who accused him of sexual assault as well as Monica Lewinsky.

Not accepting the cigar, Clinton asked, “You know the joke about that?” The pool reporter, BuzzFeed's Ruby Cramer, said she only heard the word "dynamite," but that Clinton eventually picked up one of the man's cigars.

“You smoke cigars. Don’t bullshit me,” the man told Clinton.

After Clinton put down the cigar, the man handed it back to him, at which point the former president placed it in his suit jacket pocket.