Jeb Bush: ‘Donald Trump is a jerk’

“He’s an embarrassment to the Bush family, and in fact he doesn’t even want to use the Bush name, which is interesting”, Trump said. I gave myself therapy there.

“Donald Trump is a chaos candidate and he would be a chaos president”, he said, echoing a line from Tuesday’s debate. Trump had previously mocked a reporter with a disability for which he refused to apologize. “Thank you for allowing me to do it”, he admitted, half-jokingly.

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Bush, for his part, says he’s stepping up his criticism on Trump now because Trump is displaying shallow ideas on foreign policy. They continued trading shots throughout the week, with Trump calling Bush “dumb as a rock” on Twitter Friday and getting in some fresh insults Saturday while campaigning in Iowa.

However, Trump is the front-runner in the race to choose who will run as Republican candidate for president in 2016, with the latest polls showing him on 39% – more than 10 times more than Bush’s waning share. “He doesn’t have much intellectual curiosity”.

Bush’s jabs come the same day that the super PAC supporting his White House bid, Right to Rise, released a new TV ad hitting Trump.

“It wasn’t supposed to go like this”, wrote opinion writer James Downie, recalling that Bush announced an exploratory committee a year ago this week, hoping to keep Mitt Romney out of the race and “lock up” donations early.

“It was so sad to watch him”.

Trump later said he’s not looking for Bush’s approval.

The candidate added, “But if he does not endorse and support me as the nominee, legally he can not be on the ballot in many states, so that would be the end of his candidacy – but that doesn’t matter because he is not going to win anyway”. “He’s not tough. He’s not smart”, he said.