The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board shot back at Donald Trump late Thursday night after he called them “dummies.”
“On Thursday the businessman demanded an apology after we—’the dummies at the @WSJ Editorial Board’—accurately noted that Hillary Clinton has received about a million more votes than he has,” the board wrote in a piece titled “A Trump Reality Check.”
“The truth hurts, though Mr. Trump would rather walk down Fifth Avenue shooting the messenger,” the piece continued, citing a joke made by Trump in January that he could “stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody” and not lose any voters.
This week, the board pointed out that he has received fewer votes compared to Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton in the primaries, something that did not sit well with the Republican front-runner.
Thursday morning, Trump wrote a series of tweets against the editorial board, saying they are “bad at math,” and that “nobody cares what they say in their editorials anymore.”
“.@WSJ Editorial says “Clinton primary vote total is 8,646,551.Trump’s is 7,533,692″ — a knock. But she had only 3 opponents — I had 16.Apologize,” Trump tweeted Thursday morning.
Then late Thursday night the paper responded, “Actually his rise has been cleared by the large and fractured GOP field. Of the 20.35 million GOP primary votes cast so far, he has received 7.54 million, or a mere 37 percent. Despite the media desire to call him unstoppable, Mr. Trump is the weakest Republican front-runner since Gerald Ford in 1976.”
“The opinions he should care about are the 39 percent of GOP voters who said in Tuesday’s exit polls that they would consider supporting a third-party candidate if Mr. Trump and Mrs. Clinton are the nominees, or the 44 percent of non-Trump GOP voters who said they won’t cast a ballot for him in November,” the editorial board concluded. “As Mr. Trump likes to tweet, better be careful!”
