And Gillibrand, proving she doesn’t need anyone to fight her battles for her, also replied to Trump directly.

“You cannot silence me or the millions of women who have gotten off the sidelines to speak out about the unfitness and shame you have brought to the Oval Office,” she tweeted.

Speaking at a news conference later that same day, Gillibrand told reporters that she absolutely sees the president’s tweet as derogatory.

“I see it as a sexist smear. I mean that’s what it is,” she said, according to CNN. “It’s part of the President’s efforts of name calling and it’s not going to silence me, it’s not going to silence me. It’s intended to silence me. It’s not going to silence the women who have stood up against him directly, and it’s not going to silence the millions of women who been speaking out every day since his inauguration about things they disagree with.”

Despite this, Sarah Sanders – Trump’s spokeswoman – has insisted that the president’s comments were in “no way sexist at all”.

And, denying any sexual innuendo in the tweet, she added: “Only if your mind is in the gutter would you have read it that way.”

Trump’s response to those sexual misconduct allegations is seriously vile