Thune calls Moreno ‘eye candy’

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) referred to his fellow Republican senator, Sen. Bernie Moreno (Ohio), as “eye candy,” comments that come after President Trump complimented the physique of the other Ohio senator, Sen. Jon Husted (R).

“I know that Husted gets a ton of attention, but I think Bernie’s kind of eye candy too. I don’t know if — if you guys got, you both got the — they both got it going on when it comes to that,” Thune noted at a local Republican event in Ohio on Tuesday.

Thune’s comments follow Trump complimenting the backside of Husted, something he has done multiple times on the campaign trail as Election Day nears.

“I looked at his a‑‑, and then I looked at his legs, and my — I said, ‘His a‑‑ is like, it’s like a pile of muscle.’ Then I looked at his legs, and I said, ‘Man, his feet are big,’” Trump said during a rally in North Carolina last week, talking about Husted, who is locked in a tight race with former Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio).

“Then I looked at his shoulders, and I tapped him on the shoulder, and it actually hurt my hand. It was like a piece of steel. I said, ‘This guy’s a monster,’” the president added.

On Tuesday , Trump quipped that he had made “the mistake” of “studying” Husted’s “anatomy,” after the president’s remarks about Husted’s backside were in the national spotlight last week.

“So I’m studying him, and I made the mistake of saying that I started off by studying his a–,” Trump told supporters while at a Texas rally. “I just want to say. And then I looked at his feet and they were massive. Then I looked at his hand. ‘See these hands,’ he said.”