Republican Senator Mitt Romney made fun of former President Donald Trump, calling him a “whack job” after the ex-president and 2024 hopeful bashed him on Truth Social Monday morning.
Romney is the subject of a new biography by The Atlantic’s McKay Coppins, titled Romney: a reckoningwhere he issues another warning about Trumpism, after voting to convict Trump in both impeachments.
The Utah senator spoke out against Coppins about Trump and other Republican leaders, prompting the ex-president to take on Truth Social and call Romney “a total loser that only a mother could love,” among other insults .
Coppins spoke Brian Stelter of Vanity Fair Thursday for an episode of the Inside the Hive podcast and revealed Romney’s response to Trump’s tirade.
“I sent that statement to Mitt and hold on, I want it, I’m just pulling up the text,” Coppins said. ‘He wrote back, “Ha, ha, ha. He’s such a crazy job.” So Mitt kind of enjoyed Trump’s response.”
Former President Donald Trump (left) went on a rant after hearing some of the comments Senator Mitt Romney (right) told biographer McKay Coppins. Romney responded by calling Trump a “whack job.”
Trump was on his way to New Hampshire on Monday to have his name officially added to the Republican Party’s primaries when he dedicated several Truth Social posts to Romney, falsely saying that the Utah senator and Republican Party presidential candidate had written an autobiography in 2012.
McKay Coppins interviewed Romney for his new biography and the Utah senator didn’t hold back
“Mitt Romney, a total loser that only a mother could love, just wrote a book that, like him, is boring, terrible and completely predictable,” Trump said. ‘I am very proud to be the one who forced this left-wing RINO out of politics.”
“He wanted to run so bad, but he knew he couldn’t win in the big state Utah without my approval and support, so he quit,” the ex-president added.
Romney announced last month that he would not seek another term in the Senate.
His opposition to Trump has hurt him politically in his adopted red state.
Romney previously served as governor of Massachusetts before running for office in Utah, a state where he has a home and was able to benefit from his Mormon faith.
“His filthy book says nothing good about anyone except RINO Paul RINO, who may be worse and even dumber than Mitt himself,” Trump continued, referring to former House Speaker Paul Ryan, who served as President in 2012. Romney’s running mate had served.
In the book, Romney has negative things to say about top Republicans in politics, despite once being the leader of the party as a candidate for the White House in 2012.
He said Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis had “no heat at all” and when he posed for photos with voters in Iowa “it looks like he has a toothache.”
Romney said former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was a “smug know-it-all” and called out former Texas Governor Rick Perry for his “prima donna, low IQ personality.”
Former Republican Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania was “sanctimonious, strict and strange.”
He said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell “pandered to Trump’s crazy behavior over the last four years, but he’s not crazy.”
Trump spent Monday morning bashing Romney over the book, saying he was “a total loser that only a mother could love,” and credited himself with driving the Utah senator out of politics
Trump also repeatedly pointed out how Romney auditioned to become his secretary of state just weeks after the 2016 election, even posting a video and quoting what Romney said after their dinner meeting in New York.
As for Trump, Romney said he was “unquestionably mentally unstable, racist, bigoted, misogynistic, xenophobic, vulgar and prone to violence.”
In his Truth Social posts, Trump repeatedly brought up the fact that Romney had auditioned to become his Secretary of State.
“Did he mention his late dinner with me at the Trump International Hotel when he was clamoring to become Secretary of State, and then gave GLOWING COMMENTS about DJT at a follow-up news conference?” Trump thought. ‘I didn’t give him the job, and I never intended to. I just wanted to prove a point: that Mitt Romney is and always has been a lightweight joke!”
In another Truth Social post, Trump shared a video of Romney talking to reporters after their post-election dinner in November 2016 at Jean-Georges restaurant in New York City.
Trump quoted ‘Mitt ‘The Loser’ Romney’ and said he had a ‘great evening with President Trump’ and called it enlightening, interesting and engaging.”