Jonah Goldberg Responds to Angry Tweets from ’14-Year-Old Girl’ Donald Trump
One of Donald Trump‘s favorite pasttimes is Twitter feuds, and his latest target is National Review columnist and Fox commentator Jonah Goldberg. And Goldberg isn’t quite clear why…
First, Trump trashed both Goldberg and Weekly Standard writer Stephen Hayes yesterday:
How does failed writer and pundit like @stephenfhayes, with no success and little talent, get away with criticizing candidates.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 20, 2015
.@weeklystandard I know your business is failing but you should try to get writers far better than @stephenfhayes.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 20, 2015
Jonah Goldberg @JonahNRO of the once great @NRO #National Review is truly dumb as a rock. Why does @BretBaier put this dummy on his show?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 20, 2015
National Review @NRO may be going out of business because of the really pathetic job being done by @JonahNRO. No talent means death – sad!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 21, 2015
.@stephenfhayes: I heard you were a joke on the media panel this weekend in New Hampshire. You just don't have what it takes! @JoeNBC
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 21, 2015
Goldberg couldn’t have been more amused:
Donald Trump thinks I'm a pain in the ass. Alas, he doesn't realize that's the fastest route to his brain.
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) April 20, 2015
Thanks for the nice comments re Trump thing. Honestly though, I thought it was hilarious and I'm in good company.
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) April 21, 2015
Just a thought: if it takes so little for @stephenfhayes and me to fluster @realDonaldTrump, maybe we shouldn't give him nuclear weapons?
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) April 21, 2015
Hey Ayatollah, I'm rubber you're glue! #PresidentTrumpTweets
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) April 21, 2015
Pope, this Vatican you've got is nice. But have you thought about miniature golf? It could be yuge. #PresidentTrumpTweets
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) April 21, 2015
BTW, before tonight, last time I mentioned Trump publicly was four months ago. His panty-bunching is long-fused. http://t.co/68EWOYkUNt
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) April 21, 2015
That last tweet is referring to when Goldberg was on Fox back in January, calling the potential 2016 presidential candidate a “bane of humanity” and saying it drives him crazy that anyone at Fox News would take him seriously.
And for the hell of it, Goldberg wrote a response to Trump on National Review earlier today. Goldberg explained that the aforementioned Hayes had dismissed Trump over the weekend as a “clown,” and so the Donald “started relentlessly tweeting like a 14-year-old girl about it.”
And then he went for the jugular:
I guess Trump’s Olympian self-regard can lead him to never forget a slight, harbor grudges against critics for a very long time, and drive him to engage in childish name-calling late into the night, which are obviously some of the attributes we all look for in a presidential candidate. A huge ego and a penchant for spite is totally the kind of guy we should entrust the nuclear football to.
Trump tweeted up a storm in response to the piece, but this is probably the best exchange of the entire thing:
.@JonahNRO You stated that I started “relentlessly tweeting like a 14-year-old girl…” Horrible insult to women. Resign now or later!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 21, 2015
.@realDonaldTrump We agree! Comparing you to a 14 year old girl *is* insulting to 14 year old girls. You nailed it sir.
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) April 21, 2015
And scene.
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