Mitt Romney has refused to support Donald Trump's run for president, even after he became the Republican nominee. | AP Photo Romney: Trump's comments 'demean our wives and daughters and corrupt America's face to the world'

Mitt Romney, one of the most vocal conservatives opposed to Donald Trump’s candidacy, condemned comments the Republican nominee made degrading women as “vile degradations” that “demean our wives and daughters and corrupt America's face to the world.”

“Hitting on married women? Condoning assault? Such vile degradations demean our wives and daughters and corrupt America's face to the world,” Romney, the Republican Party’s 2012 presidential nominee, wrote on Twitter early Friday evening.


Trump is facing widespread condemnation from both Democrats and members of his own party in the wake of revelations that he made a series of aggressively sexual comments about women, bragging about groping them and trying to have sex with them, in a private conversation in 2005.

In the conversation, he says to “Access Hollywood’s” Billy Bush that “I don’t even wait” to kiss women and described grabbing them by their genitals.

The Washington Post published audio and video from the conversation, caught by a hot microphone, on Friday, prompting Trump to release a short statement apologizing for causing offense without saying he was sorry for making the comments.

Romney has refused to support Trump's run for president, even after he became the Republican nominee, and has warned that a Trump presidency could cause "trickle-down racism, trickle-down bigotry, trickle-down misogyny."

In 2012, Democrats mocked Romney for a comparatively mild remarks he made during that election’s second presidential debate, when he described receiving “binders full of women” job candidates as governor.