The outgoing governor, to be succeeded by Democrat Ralph Northam this weekend, is so frustrated by reports that President Trump called Haiti a "s***hole" that he is challenging the commander-in-chief to a fight.
"You would have to pick him up off the floor," McAuliffe said about his potential duel with Trump.
"Listen, if this guy got in my space, you wanna get in my space, I've always said Chris, you punch me, I'm going to punch back twice as hard," McAuliffe said on Chris Matthews's show on MSNBC Thursday night. "And it wouldn't be hard to do it, but you know, this guy thinks he could intimidate everybody. It's disgraceful. It's embarrassing."
Others haven't exactly challenged Trump to a duel, but they did condemn his comments and demand apologies, while some especially outraged pundits called him a "racist." American Urban Radio Network's April Ryan even asked the president if he was a racist after a Martin Luther King, Jr. ceremony Friday.
Matthews encouraged McAuliffe's language, telling him he "sounds like an Irish-American politician."
Trump has denied using those specific vulgar words to describe Haiti, El Salvador and African nations.
Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin (IL), who was in the room at the time the controversial remarks were reportedly made, told the press Friday morning that he heard the president say it.
"He said these hate-filled things, and he said them repeatedly," Durbin said.
Comment: Wait a second... McAuliffe, on national television, invents a hostile scenario out of pure imagination where Trump 'gets in his space' and then he 'knocks him on the floor'. These aren't exactly the thoughts of a well adjusted individual, yet he slams Trump as being intimidating and a disgrace? The state of Virginia is lucky to see him out of office.