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Donald Trump responded to his conservative critics with a tweetstorm calling them “stupid”

by Andrew Prokop
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Andrew Prokop
Andrew Prokop is a senior politics correspondent at Vox, covering the White House, elections, and political scandals and investigations. He’s worked at Vox since the site’s launch in 2014, and before that, he worked as a research assistant at the New Yorker’s Washington, DC, bureau.

Donald Trump is currently exploring a run for president in 2016, according to Donald Trump. Yet some conservative pundits aren’t taking Trump’s potential campaign seriously. George Will of the Washington Post has called him a “bloviating ignoramus,“ Stephen Hayes of the Weekly Standard has said his effort is a “clown show,“ and Jonah Goldberg of National Review has said he’s been “tweeting like a 14-year-old girl.“

Now Trump has responded in the most presidential manner possible — with a multi-day tweetstorm of personal insults against his critics, calling them, among other things, “dumb,” “failed,” “boring,” and “stupid.” Read below:

Trump even praised MSNBC’s Ed Schultz, a liberal, for defending him:

And near the end of this afternoon’s volley of tweets, Trump made a rather ironic observation:

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