Donald Trump Mocks Romney on ‘Trickle-Down Racism’ Comment
- Republican says he’s ‘the least racist person’ after criticism
- Wants party to stick together, win with ‘better ideas’
Donald Trump.
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Donald Trump returned to the combative form that helped him win the U.S. Republican presidential nomination, slamming Democrats, calling for his party to unite behind him, and responding to Mitt Romney’s suggestion that his election could lead to “trickle-down racism.”
At a rally Saturday in Tampa, Florida, the presumptive Republican nominee termed himself “the least racist person that you have ever met” and knocked Romney, as he’s done before, for losing to President Barack Obama as the Republican nominee in the 2012 election. Later, in Pittsburgh, he stirred the crowd by saying that Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, plans to limit access to guns.