Donald Trump on Wednesday morning bashed the publisher of the New Hampshire Union Leader, who had slammed Trump as “a crude blowhard with no clear political philosophy” in a December editorial.
“He’s a bad guy,” Trump said of Union Leader publisher Joseph McQuaid on “Fox and Friends.”
He said he was tempted to mention McQuaid in his victory speech Tuesday night.
“You know, when I won, I sort of said, maybe I’ll mention him in my speech but I decided not to do that. I wanted to keep it high level,” Trump said on Fox.
The Republican presidential candidate referenced his decision not to attend a forum put on by the Union Leader in August, touting that he made the right decision.
“He asked me for advertising for his newspaper,” Trump said on Fox. “And he wanted me to make speeches and he wanted me to do his debate which was just before the Fox debate.”
“I thought it would have been ridiculous for me to do it,” Trump continued, referencing the Union Leader forum. “And other guys like Jeb Bush did it and made a total fool out of himself, and it really hurt him.”
Trump then mocked McQuaid over the paper’s decision to endorse New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
“Chris is a friend of mine, but obviously it didn’t work out,” Trump said. “He’s a bad publisher, and the paper is going down the tubes, as some papers are. But his paper is failing badly.”
Standard reply to any bad media coverage.
Let’s face it, Donald “the draft dodging coward” is the original tantrum baby.
Oh well, hopefully the testicular cancer will soon kick in.
Trump is, as always, an a-hole, but that newspaper and its publisher are too. So, really, we all win here.
Going down and doing badly like your casinos and hotels, you mean?
“…wanted to keep it high level.” KEEP? High level? Since when is the sewer a HIGH level?
There are two weird things here.
One, Trump is looking backward, at the past. NH primary is over, and yet he still obsesses over what a NH newspaper did.
Two (as is now common for him) he does an unthinkable political thing–make enemies of a person who he will need in the future. Remember, this was only the primary; he will need to seek votes again in NH to win a general election, and now he can forget good free coverage from the state’s biggest paper.