Trump Rips Hugh Hewitt on Twitter for His ‘Low Ratings’ Because Of Course

There is one very important metric Donald Trump likes to judge someone’s merit on: ratings. He constantly talks about how good The Apprentice did in the ratings and most of the time, when he wants to express his dislike of someone, he goes after their ratings (though he couldn’t exactly do that with Megyn Kelly).

But now Trump has a new target: Hugh Hewitt. After Hewitt pressed Trump for some foreign policy specifics and The Donald got rattled a bit, he first called Hewitt a “third-rate radio announcer” before finally tweeting about him and his ratings this morning:

Very low ratings radio host Hugh Hewitt asked me about Suleiman, Abu Bake al-Baghdad, Hassan Nasrallah and more – typical "gotcha" questions

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 5, 2015

Why would a very low ratings radio talk show host like Hugh Hewitt be doing the next debate on @CNN. He is just a 3rd rate "gotcha" guy!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 5, 2015

Marlon Bateman, a producer for Hewitt’s radio show, shot back by showing off one of Trump’s famous handwritten notes on Twitter:

.@realDonaldTrump @CNN Why would you tell me that it was a "great honor" to come on our "third-rate" show? pic.twitter.com/waChITPcge

— Marlon Bateman (@MarlonBateman) September 5, 2015

[image via The Hugh Hewitt Show, Shutterstock]

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