Gingrich Scolds Trump: ‘You Can’t Tweet at 3:00 in the Morning. Period.’

Newt Gingrich is all-in for Donald Trump, except on those days when he decides to get brutally honest about him. And today was one of those days.

As far as Gingrich is concerned (and maybe Sean Hannity a little too, though he didn’t express as much angst), Trump needs to quit the nonsense about Alicia Machado and act like a serious candidate:

“You can’t tweet at 3:00 in the morning. Period. There’s no excuse. Ever. Not if you’re gonna be president of the United States. So he’s really gotta decide… If he’s gotta be himself, then he may well not win. If he’s willing to grow into the role of president, than he may win.”

Hannity did not date criticize Trump directly––he only said that this week has been “frustrating” because of the media double standards.

Gingrich agreed that this was a media ambush (and warned that during the next debate, Anderson Cooper will be “viscerally, deeply opposed to Trump), but said Trump

has to make the decision himself that “saving America and making America great again is worth his subordinating himself to the difficult process of becoming President of the United States.”

This is all, by the way, in spite of Gingrich going ahead and defending Trump on the Machado controversy by literally saying, “You are not supposed to gain 60 pounds the year you’re Miss Universe.”

Watch above, via Fox News.

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