As the spouses of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, Bill Clinton and Melania Trump have had limited interactions this election, mostly brief, cordial handshakes at the presidential debates.
On Friday, the former president said he feels sorry for Melania Trump, especially after her speech a day earlier in Pennsylvania lamenting the need to curb cyber bullying.
He scoffed at those comments, noting some of Donald Trump's recent early morning Twitter rants in which he has criticized, among others, a former Miss Universe winner and dozens of politicians.
“I never felt so bad for anybody in my life as I did for his wife going out giving a speech saying, ‘Oh, cyber bullying was a terrible thing,’” Clinton said while campaigning in Colorado. “I thought, ‘Yeah, especially if it's done at 3 o’clock in the morning against a former Miss Universe by a guy running for president.'"
Melania Trump's speech was assailed by some on social media, with critics pointing toward her husband’s well-documented history of attacking those he doesn’t like on Twitter.
“None of this is real. You couldn't make it up,” Clinton said to laughter from supporters. “The problem is we're laughing, but it isn't funny because people's lives are going to be changed by this.”