Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton on Wednesday shot back at Donald Trump in a series of tweets accusing the Republican front-runner of sexism.
{mosads}Clinton said after reports surfaced that Trump would “change his tone heading into the general election, once again he’s letting his true colors show.”
“Last night, the ‘#womancard.’ This morning, Trump said he ‘hasn’t recovered’ from Hillary’s ‘shouting.’ Really?” she tweeted.
Attached was a photo of a something Clinton said during a women’s leadership forum: “It’s not shouting. It’s just when women talk, some people think we’re shouting.”
Trump attacked Clinton on Wednesday, saying she is “playing the woman card left and right.”
“She’s playing it much harder this time, and she will be called on it,” he said on CNN’s “New Day.”
Trump also criticized Clinton for “shouting” when she discussed him in a victory speech Tuesday night.
“Well I haven’t quite recovered — it’s early in the morning — from her shouting that message,” Trump said.
“I know a lot of people would say, ‘You can’t say that about a woman.’ Because of course a woman doesn’t shout. But the way she shouted that message was not … that’s the way she said it,” Trump said.
“I guess I’ll have to get used to a lot of that over the next four or five months.”
Clinton tweeted Wednesday that Trump’s comments make “flashy headlines” but they aren’t a “joke.”
“Hillary can handle these attacks,” she tweeted. “Millions of women shouldn’t have to.”
Clinton said Trump’s rhetoric is “just the beginning.” She said the Republican front-runner dismissed equal pay, wouldn’t support paid family leave and would defund Planned Parenthood.
“Women still face too many barriers — a president shouldn’t be part of the problem. Comments like Trump’s set us back,” she tweeted.
“So if fighting for women is playing the #WomanCard, well…deal me in.”