Donald Trump, who has not stopped attacking fellow Republicans, says Mitt Romney ‘walks like a penguin’
Not only does Mitt Romney “choke like a dog,” but the former Massachusetts governor apparently also “walks like a penguin.”
Or so says Donald Trump, who despite virtually locking up the GOP presidential nomination, continues to attack his fellow Republicans, amid party leaders’ calls for unity, no less.
Trump’s latest insults toward Romney, a face of the Republican establishment, came Wednesday during a rally in Anaheim, California. After revisiting his “choker” label for Romney, including his confounding dog simile, Trump introduced a new animal-related comparison for the 2012 Republican nominee.
https://youtu.be/v2gS6fc84yc?t=1h49m30s
“He walks like a penguin onto the stage,” Trump said, mocking Romney’s speech back in March roundly condemning the billionaire’s candidacy. “Like the penguin!”
In the spirit of fact-checking, here is footage of Romney walking onto the stage before his anti-Trump speech back in March.
https://youtu.be/I9vd4kOJwzg?t=2m14s
(For comparison, here is a video of penguins walking.)
Romney wasn’t the only victim of Trump’s continued intra-party missives.
During a rally Tuesday night in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the presumptive Republican nominee said the state’s GOP Gov. Susan Martinez was “not doing the job,” allowing Syrian refugees to resettle in New Mexico, and said in jest that maybe he would run for governor to “get this place going.”
In California on Wednesday, Trump also attacked South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who came to Martinez’s aid Wednesday on Twitter.
Politicians talk. Governors lead. @Gov_Martinez is a leader and the future of our party. pic.twitter.com/qpq9ycOJib
— Jeb Bush (@JebBush) May 25, 2016
With the GOP primary race virtually finished and expectations that Trump will need to work to unify the party around him heading into the general election, the decision to continue to ridicule fellow Republicans left some longtime campaign journalists publicly perplexed.
Trump might feel like he doesn’t need Jeb or Mitt to win, but he could use their loyal donors. So why attack them? https://t.co/iN5EcWgYQE
— Mark Halperin (@MarkHalperin) May 25, 2016
Hard to overstate how unusual this is, party’s nominee continuing to beat up the carcasses of vanquished candidates https://t.co/Dsyhi1eNUz
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) May 25, 2016
Notably, neither Romney, nor Martinez, nor Haley, nor Bush have yet endorsed Trump.
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