Hours before an Iowa rally, Donald Trump spent his morning off trolling other 2016 candidates.
The master of the 140-character burn hit five of his opponents in the Republican primary — Sen. Lindsey Graham, Gov. George Pataki, Gov. Jeb Bush, Sen. Marco Rubio, and Gov. Scott Walker – with both self-authored quips and retweets of his supporters.
After sending out a tweet going after Bush for advertising himself as “Jeb,” Trump picked up where he left off on Monday night slamming him with three tweets targeting the former Florida governor for his controversial remarks on “anchor babies,” which Bush said was more about Asians than Latinos on Monday.
In a clumsy move to get out of his "anchor babies" dilemma, where he signed that he would not use the term and now uses it, he blamed ASIANS
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 25, 2015Asians are very offended that JEB said that anchor babies applies to them as a way to be more politically correct to hispanics. A mess!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 25, 2015Jeb Bush just talked about my border proposal to build a "fence." It's not a fence, Jeb, it's a WALL, and there's a BIG difference!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 25, 2015Next up, Trump targeted two more moderate Republicans who are struggling in the polls, New York’s Pataki and South Carolina’s Graham.
.@GovernorPataki did a terrible job as Governor of New York. If he ran again, he would have lost in a landslide. He and Graham ZERO in polls
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 25, 2015
Graham and Trump have publicly feuded in the past – Trump even read aloud the South Carolina senator’s personal phone number at an event in the state – so he got a few more trolling tweets.
Congrats @LindseyGrahamSC. You just got 4 points in your home state of SC—far better than zero nationally. You’re only 26 pts behind me.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 25, 2015
Another good poll result in the great state of SC. Trump at 30%. Carson at 15% and Bush at 9%. http://t.co/FjQfdCrfdT
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 25, 2015The GOP front-runner also let his supporters throw some barbs too, retweeting a handful of attacks on various opponents to his 3.87 million followers.
"@Dlund22226523: Gov. Scott Walker has ran Wisconsin's economy into the ground. How dare he criticize you. You would fire him in a second."
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 25, 2015"@ibemoshing: No hope for Jeb Bush anymore, @realDonaldTrump has been on fire! Really hope he can get the win and fix this country!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 25, 2015
"@RageFelix: @GovernorPataki … I LIVED IN NY WHEN "TACKY PATAKI" WAS GOV… HE WAS A TOTAL DISASTER FOR THE PEOPLE OF NEW YORK
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 25, 2015
"@linda_lcarson: @realDonaldTrump Rubio and Bush cant say Wall. I guess it is not pc. Just like obama cant say islamic terrorists !!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 25, 2015
Jane Timm