President Donald Trump on Wednesday launched a wild assault on Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), calling the lawmaker a “DOPE,” “TOTAL LOSER,” and a “unhealthy politician.”
He additionally stated Raskin has an “ugly face.”
Trump’s tirade got here shortly after Raskin appeared on MSNBC, the place he spoke a few report indicating that the president wasn’t conscious that his signature “massive, lovely invoice” would reduce Medicaid till a Republican lawmaker pointed it out to him earlier within the day.
Raskin stated there’s numerous dialogue on the ground of the Home over simply how a lot Trump is aware of about his personal invoice and whether or not he’s “out of it.”
But most GOP lawmakers help the invoice anyway, even those that aren’t pleased with it themselves.
“All of those individuals have gotten in line regardless of their very own misgivings as a result of Trump is main the best way ― however Trump may not even perceive what’s within the invoice,” Raskin stated. “So it’s a really harmful second when you consider what democracy is, and it doesn’t converse properly for what has turn into of the Republican Social gathering.”
But not everybody within the Republican caucus has backed the invoice, and as a key vote stalled late Wednesday, Trump attacked Raskin on Reality Social:
Raskin brushed it off throughout an interview on MSNBC.
“I suppose I don’t thoughts being known as a loser a number of occasions by Donald Trump, provided that he’s our solely president who has misplaced the favored vote for president in two totally different elections,” he informed Lawrence O’Donnell. “And the final time, when he misplaced by greater than 7 million votes to Joe Biden, it upset him a lot that he incited an revolt in opposition to the Structure, in opposition to his personal vice chairman, and in opposition to the Congress of america.”
He additionally had a response to Trump calling him “ugly.”
“I suppose I don’t like being known as ugly by Donald Trump, however not all people can reside as much as his beautiful ranges of handsomeness and private bodily grace,” he stated.
Trump’s critics on X additionally fired again on the president: