Joe Biden compares Donald Trump to the 'fattest, ugliest SOB in the room'

Show Caption Hide Caption Biden and Trump threaten to 'beat the hell' out of each other President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden have been going back and forth for more than a year, threatening each other. Veuer's Sam Berman has the full story.

Former vice president Joe Biden may or may not end up running in 2020, but his Tuesday speech in Miami decrying sexual assault found one man in its crosshairs: President Trump.

"A guy who ended up becoming our national leader said, 'I can grab a woman anywhere and she likes it,'" Biden said, referencing Trump's bragging about sexual assault in a 2005 recording. "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.'"

Biden made that remark in 2016 ahead of the presidential election. But at this week's event at the University of Miami, part of the nationwide anti-assault campaign "It's On Us," the former VP specifically highlighted Trump's defense of his on-tape remarks as merely "locker room talk."

"I've been in a lot of locker rooms my whole life," Biden said. "I'm a pretty damn good athlete. Any guy who talked that way was usually the fattest, ugliest S.O.B. in the room."

Both comments from Biden drew applause from students in the room. (And while boxing experts like Trump's odds in a theoretical fight against Biden, the bone spurs Trump claimed in order to avoid the draft as a young man may affect his footwork.)

Biden tied the criticism of Trump on Tuesday to a call for men on the university's campus to hold one another accountable to prevent acts of sexual assault.

“Guys, any man on campus who sees a fraternity brother taking a drunken co-ed up the stairs and doesn’t walk up and say, ‘Not in my house’ is a damn coward,” Biden said. “Flat, simple coward. Coward!"

Biden's speech to students in Coral Gables came the same day that he headlined a fundraiser for Latino leaders in South Florida, according to ABC News. The University of Miami later thanked Biden for speaking at the rally and "or bringing us your legacy of ending violence against women and empowering our students to take action."

Today’s @itsonus rally reminded us that we are responsible for creating an environment where sexual assault and gender-based violence is unacceptable. Thank you @joebiden for bringing us your legacy of ending violence against women and empowering our students to take action. pic.twitter.com/h43M4gqqpt — University of Miami (@univmiami) March 20, 2018

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