While Donald Trump has often claimed that “nobody has more respect for women than I do,” the Republican presidential nominee has been dogged by his long history of sexist, and even predatory, comments about women. In an appearance on Fox and Friends in 2010, Trump boasted that the best way to win over a woman is to “move forward, even if you get smacked”—an innocuous comment at the time, but one that raises red flags in light of the many women who have come forward over the past 24 hours with allegations that he sexually harassed them.

In the on-set interview with co-hosts Gretchen Carlson, Brian Kilmeade, and Steve Doocy, Trump recounted how he met his third wife, Melania Trump. He was at a party filled with models who “looked like Gretchen, actually,” Trump said, when he saw Melania standing next to a famous supermodel. “I fought very hard. She wouldn’t give me her number. I don’t think she found me at all attractive, to be honest with you,” he added, laughing alongside the Fox and Friends hosts. “I don’t think she liked me too much, sort of like Gretchen didn’t use to like me.”

But now, Kilmeade pointed out, the two were married and had a son, so clearly, something worked out—a lesson to all the men out there. “This is what I learned though: take action. He never would have got there if you didn’t go over and put yourself out there to be rejected,” Kilmeade summarized.

Trump countered with his own lesson: “Move forward. Even if you get smacked.”

The remark seems less innocent in context. Since Wednesday, Trump has been hit with a wave of allegations from women who say that he sexually harassed and in some cases groped them without consent. Several of the accusations were made by women who were outraged when Trump defended his lewd comments in a recently leaked 2005 tape—in which he can be heard bragging about grabbing women “by the p----”—by claiming that he has never done any of the things he was recorded saying. During the second presidential debate, Trump apologized for his past comments but dismissed them as “locker-room talk.”