Donald Trump mocks Romney as a ‘choker’ after ‘trickle-down racism’ comment
The presumptive Republican nominee termed himself “the least racist person that you have ever met”
Donald Trump returned to the combative form that helped him win the US Republican presidential nomination, slamming Democrats, calling for his party to unite behind him, and responding to Mitt Romney’s suggestion that his election could lead to “trickle-down racism”.
At a rally Saturday in Tampa, Florida, the presumptive Republican nominee termed himself “the least racist person that you have ever met” and knocked Romney, as he’s done before, for losing to President Barack Obama as the Republican nominee in the 2012 election. Later, in Pittsburgh, he stirred the crowd by saying that Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, plans to limit access to guns.
Romney said on CNN Friday that electing Trump could fundamentally change the nature of the US “Trickle-down racism, trickle-down bigotry, trickle-down misogyny, all these things are extraordinarily dangerous to the heart and character of America,” Romney said.
“Don’t forget, this guy let us down. He choked and he let us down,” Trump said in Tampa of Romney, the former Massachusetts governor and private equity firm executive.
After enduring days of criticism from Republican congressional leaders including House Speaker Paul Ryan for his complaints that a US judge of Mexican heritage was biased because of ethnicity, Trump said it was time for the party to get behind him.