A Tampa man accused of groping a woman’s breast during a plane flight said “the President of the United States says it’s okay to grab women by their private parts.”

And thus the Trump era in America continues.

Bruce Michael Alexander, 49, groped the woman’s breast at least twice during a Sunday flight from Houston to Albuquerque, according to a criminal complaint filed with U.S. District Court in New Mexico.

Alexander made the comment about the president to an FBI agent, in an apparent reference to a 2005 conversation caught on video by Access Hollywood in which Donald Trump bragged in vulgar terms about kissing, groping and trying to have sex with women.

In the recording you can hear the nearly 60 year old Trump say:

“I’m automatically attracted to beautiful women, I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.”

The video was released in October 2016, after Trump won nomination as the Republican candidate for president.

Alexander was seated in a window seat aboard Southwest Flight 5421, behind a woman whom authorities identified in the complaint by her initials.

The woman told authorities she fell asleep on the plane and about 15 to 20 minutes into the flight, she “felt her clothes move and a touching of fingers on her right side” near her breast.

At first, she said, she thought it was an accident. Then it happened again, she said, recalling “a hand that had thick fingers, were hairy and dirty finger nails,” according to the complaint.

She felt the hand grab her arm, then “slowly and ‘attentively’ grope her right side,” the complaint said.

Witnesses on board said they saw the woman stand up and tell the man behind her that she didn’t know why he thought it was okay to touch her. The woman told him he needed to stop and she asked for a different seat, the witnesses said. A crew member moved her to the back of the plane, they said.

Alexander was arrested Sunday on a charge of abusive criminal contact. He was placed in handcuffs and asked about the sentence for the charge he faces.

Later, in a vehicle, he “stated that the President of the United States say’s it’s okay to grab women by their private parts,” said FBI Special Agent Michael Hopkins, who filed the complaint.

Alexander was in federal custody as he awaited a detention hearing Tuesday, according to a Justice Department news release. He was seeking a court-appointed lawyer and was being held at the Sandoval County Jail.

If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of two years in prison and a $250,000 fine, according to the Justice Department.