Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump led off a rally in Pittsburgh on Monday by referencing Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger.
“Big Ben is a friend of mine,” Trump said. “We play golf together.”
Trump went on to tell a story about how Roethlisberger once “hit a golf shot that killed a tree.”
His latest public appearance come just days after a 2005 video was leaked in which he is makes predatory and sexual comments about women, which he dismissed as “locker room talk.”
Roethlisberger has previously been accused of sexual misconduct including a 2008 case in which a woman accused the Steelers quarterback of raping her at a hotel in Lake Tahoe.