When Donald Trump was hovering over Hillary Clinton’s shoulder in the second debate like a creep, most Americans wanted her to turn around and tell him off — but she didn’t.

Clinton said during a conversation with actress Tara Shahidi that she held back because she knew “there is a double standard” when “you’re the first woman to be nominated to the presidency by a major party” and “you have no margin for error.”

“When we were preparing for this debate, I prepared to be composed, and calm no matter what he said or did,” she said at Saturday’s Teen Vogue Summit in Playa Vista, California. “I knew he would be desperate since the Hollywood Access tapes had come out, in which he basically confesses to sexual assault.”

“Now, afterward, I thought about that. I thought, ‘What would have happened if I had sort of spun around and said, “You love to intimidate women but back up you creep,” ‘ ” she explained. “I think it really would have been satisfying but I also think given the way women are covered,

‘Oh, she can’t take that. How can she be president? Oh, she’s showing aggressive behavior on stage. Or oh she got so angry and the last thing we want is an angry woman in the Oval Office.’ ”