'Sounded like he wanted to date me': Teamsters head responds to senator's fighting words

Their tweeted barbs turned to fighting words and nearly physical blows on a vaunted Senate chamber floor.

And the gloves keep coming off.

Teamsters President Sean O'Brien continues to needle his unsuspecting nemesis in Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), a former MMA contender, after they came close to fighting during a hearing that was supposed to make promising strides on income equality.

"It was the most bizarre thing I have ever seen," said O'Brien during an appearance on Fox News' "Your World" with Neil Cavuto. "First, he said 'We're consenting adults!', which is bizarre, because it sounded like he wanted to date me. Then he asked to fight me. And I'm hearing now he wanted to bite me."

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"And the last post he made was a post in front of a cache of automatic weapons where he says 'Any time, any place!' — So make up your mind: You want to fight me, bite me or shoot me? It's crazy."

O'Brien had been sitting across the chamber while being dared to duel by Mullin and it seemed like they were going to actually clash until Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who chairs the Health, Education, Labor and Pension committee, whacked his gavel and demanded cooler minds prevail.

Both had been embroiled in a tit-for-tat on Twitter/X with O’Brien posting a photo of Mullin and circling an apple box lift behind a podium to increase his stature during a campaign debate.

Mullin quoted the text verbatim during the hearing and dared O'Brien to “stand your butt up."

The Teamster big retorted, “Stand your butt up." "Oh, hold it," Sanders remarked. "Is that your solution? No, no, sit down. Sit down," he told Mullin. "You're a United States Senator. Act like it."

He then tried to talk to the pair like kindergarteners: "This is a hearing. God knows the American people have enough contempt for Congress."

O'Brien was then asked what his move would have been if Mullin went through with the challenge to duke it out.

"If he jumped over the dais and put myself or anybody that was with me at risk, obviously we do have a right to defend ourselves," he said. "That's clearly not the objective moving forward for me."