President Donald Trump on Wednesday launched a wild attack on Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), calling the lawmaker a “DOPE,” “TOTAL LOSER,” and a “bad politician.”
He also said Raskin has an “ugly face.”
Trump’s tirade came shortly after Raskin appeared on MSNBC, where he spoke about a report indicating that the president wasn’t aware that his signature “big, beautiful bill” would cut Medicaid until a Republican lawmaker pointed it out to him earlier in the day.
Raskin said there’s a lot of discussion on the floor of the House over just how much Trump knows about his own bill and whether he’s “out of it.”
Yet most GOP lawmakers support the bill anyway, even those who aren’t happy with it themselves.
“All of these people have gotten in line despite their own misgivings because Trump is leading the way ― but Trump might not even understand what’s in the bill,” Raskin said. “So it’s a very dangerous moment when you think about what democracy is, and it doesn’t speak well for what has become of the Republican Party.”
Yet not everyone in the Republican caucus has backed the bill, and as a key vote stalled late Wednesday, Trump attacked Raskin on Truth Social:
Raskin brushed it off during an interview on MSNBC.
“I suppose I don’t mind being called a loser several times by Donald Trump, given that he’s our only president who has lost the popular vote for president in two different elections,” he told Lawrence O’Donnell. “And the last time, when he lost by more than 7 million votes to Joe Biden, it upset him so much that he incited an insurrection against the Constitution, against his own vice president, and against the Congress of the United States.”
He also had a response to Trump calling him “ugly.”
“I suppose I don’t like being called ugly by Donald Trump, but not everybody can live up to his exquisite levels of handsomeness and personal physical grace,” he said.
Trump’s critics on X also fired back at the president:
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