Donald Trump: I wouldn’t accept Ted Cruz’s endorsement

Republican nominee Donald Trump’s final message to the Republican National Convention thanks everyone for helping – except for former 2016 GOP presidential candidate Sen.

The vindictive victory lap laid bare Trump’s simmering anger at Cruz, who brought drama to Quicken Loans Arena on Wednesday when he began a speech to cheers and ended it by garnering a raucous chorus of boos after he refused to endorse the man who had bested him.

Trump suggested Cruz – in snubbing Trump at the convention, may have “ruined his political career”, – and he accused Cruz at the last minute of swapping out remarks in his convention speech to make it clear he wasn’t endorsing Trump: “To me that’s dishonorable, that’s not a nice thing to do”.

“I don’t want his endorsement”, Trump said.

“We’re going to go all the way”, he said. All I did was point out the fact that on the cover of the National Enquirer, there was a picture of him and insane Lee Harvey Oswald having breakfast. “Just, Ted, stay home, relax, enjoy yourself”.

Hopes that the two could bury the hatchet and unite the party disappeared when Cruz spoke on Wednesday, urging Republicans to “vote your conscience” but refusing to accede to chants of “Endorse Trump” that were followed by a loud chorus of boos.

“I think Heidi Cruz is a great person”, Trump said yesterday.

In his convention acceptance speech, Trump painted a dire portrait of a nation wracked by crime and people who have given up work.

“I don’t know his father”.

“He should have done it”, Trump said, suggesting that doing so would have set up the Texan better for a potential presidential run later. “But if he did, it’s fine”, Trump said.

The nominee has no campaign events scheduled for this weekend but is expected to be out and about during next week’s Democratic convention.

But Trump said that Cruz’s camp started it with an ad that ran in Utah showing racy photos of his wife, Melania Trump. Trump simply responded, “Let’s defeat her in November”.

“Are you allowed to set up a super PAC, Mike, if you are the president?” he asked his running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, in front of the cameras. “See, to me, that’s dishonorable”. Trump said. “We have to blame Mike”.