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Donald Trump continued attacks against President Joe Biden this weekend saying the president was "incoherent" and could not "put two sentences together."
Speaking at the Team Trump Nevada Commit to Caucus event at Stoney's Rockin' Country in Las Vegas on Saturday, Trump ridiculed Biden, his expected opponent in the 2024 election, for his alleged cognitive impairment. The frontrunner in the GOP primary suggested the incumbent president is too old to run for office again.
However, a recent viral TikTok suggested the president has made robust comments too, with Trump alleging that Biden had suggested physically fighting him.
The Claim
In a TikTok, posted on October 24, 2023, by user Trump-War-Room and viewed 2.6 million times, Trump said: "And then remember when Biden [said] 'I'd like to take him to the back of the barn'? I dream of that. You know what I do with him?" Trump then made several punching gestures. "I'd hit him right in that fake nose..." he added.
Text above the video read "Wow Trump 2024."
The TikTok and the user have since been deleted.
The Facts
The TikTok used footage from a campaign speech Trump made in Derry, New Hampshire, on October 23, 2023, uploaded to C-SPAN.
While Biden may not have said the exact words Trump quoted, he made a comment that inferred he would have liked to fight Trump one-on-one.
Biden's initial comment was made in 2016, during a campaign rally for Hillary Clinton in Pennsylvania in which he addressed the now infamous Donald Trump Access Hollywood tape leak.
The tapes revealed Trump saying how fame afforded him the opportunity to "do anything" to women, claiming he could "Grab 'em by the p****."
The audio had only just been leaked when Biden, then vice president, addressed it.
"I have not wanted to get into, if you notice in the national press, talking about Trump's behavior, his personal behavior, but what he said he did and does is a textbook definition of sexual assault," Biden said.
"And thinking, no no, think about this, but it's more than that. He said because I'm famous, because I'm a star, because I'm a billionaire, I can do things, other people can't. What a disgusting assertion for anyone to make.
"The press always asked me 'Don't I wish I were debating him?' No I wish we were in high school [so] I could take him behind the gym. That's what I wish."
Biden advanced his comments two years later. In March 2018, speaking at a rally against sexual assault, Biden brought up the Access Hollywood tapes and his previous comments, telling the audience how he'd said: "If we were in high school, I'd take him [Trump] behind the gym and beat the hell out of him.'"
Trump responded to Biden on a number of occasions saying the fight "wouldn't last long."
While Trump inaccurately quoted Biden by claiming he had said "I'd like to take him to the back of the barn", the misquote doesn't alter the intent of what Biden suggested.
Newsweek has contacted the White House for comment.
The Ruling
True.
While Trump's claim is technically a misquote, Biden said he would have fought him "if we were in high school."
In 2016, following the leak of Access Hollywood tapes in which Trump said fame afforded him the opportunity to "do anything" to women, Biden said "if we were in high school" he would have liked to "take him behind the gym."
Biden would later add that he would have "beat the hell" out of Trump.
FACT CHECK BY Newsweek's Fact Check team
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