Presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump railed against his party’s 2012 standard-bearer, Mitt Romney, in a radio interview Monday in which he also called for the former Massachusetts governor to “retire.”
Appearing on SiriusXM’s “Breitbart News Daily,” Trump said that Romney “lost the election badly” and called him a “loser.” The interview came after Romney hosted a conference in Utah this weekend, attended by Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus and House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), where attendees reportedly criticized Trump.
“He lost by a lot,” Trump said of Romney, as first flagged by BuzzFeed News. “And now he goes around having meetings about Donald Trump. I mean, he ought to go into retirement and relax, because he’s wasting a lot of people’s time.”
Trump endorsed Romney in his race against President Obama. But their relationship took a turn for the worse when Romney gave a wide-ranging speech in March criticizing Trump in a bid to derail his campaign.
Romney said Friday on CNN that he wouldn’t vote for Trump’s “trickle down racism.”
“He’s a very jealous guy,” Trump said. “He’s got a lot of problems. I watched his statement over the weekend. And it was, actually, it was sort of sad and pathetic at the same time. It was pathetic, but it was sad, too, to watch him.”
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I wonder how Trump is going to try to spin his huge lost.
Easy – it was someone else’s fault. A true narcissist like Trump is temperamentally incapable of acknowledging fault with his own actions, unless it’s somehow a backhanded compliment to himself. Examples might be “I lost the election because I trusted the American people to be smarter than this” or “I always said the Republican party was corrupt and would work to undermine me; I didn’t realize how far they’d go”. Garbage like that. “I could have organized my campaign better” or “I misjudged the opinion of the broader national electorate” are not the sort of autopsies you’ll ever see from Trump.
I don’t like Mitt Romney, but you know the saying: the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Well, for one, being such a total loser in such a circumstance, the only honorable thing would be to throw himself from Trump Tower. The problem here is getting past the word ‘honorable’, in which case I volunteer to be his kaishakunin.
Oh, easy: “The system was rigged! They were all against me! I wasn’t being treated fairly!”