Donald Trump appeared on “Fox & Friends” Wednesday morning as part of his post-New Hampshire victory tour, but he wasn’t entirely happy, thanks in large part to the cover of this morning’s edition of the New York Daily News, which painted his face like a clown and declared his New Hampshire supporters to be “brain dead.”
The cover, which declared that the “[c]lown comes back to life with N.H. win as mindless zombies turn out in droves” for what it called “Dawn of the Brain Dead,” clearly irked Trump, who called the publication “a totally failing paper” that is merely “trying to capitalize on my name.”
“Look, it’s another paper that’s going down the tubes. They used my name,” he told co-host Anna Kooiman. “They do the clown thing, every week, I’m on with a clown picture.”
“Maybe it sells, maybe it doesn’t sell — but the paper is going bad,” Trump continued, before blasting the paper’s owner. “The owner is a guy named Mort Zuckerman, who’s got a total inferiority complex, and he has for years — he’s jealous as hell.”
Trump went on the offensive on Twitter as well, writing:
Dopey Mort Zuckerman, owner of the worthless @NYDailyNews, has a major inferiority complex. Paper will close soon!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 10, 2016
Worthless @NYDailyNews, which dopey Mort Zuckerman, is desperately trying to sell, has no buyer! Liabilities are massive!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 10, 2016
Like the worthless @NYDailyNews, looks like @politico will be going out of business. Bad reporting- no money, no cred!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 10, 2016
Watch the entire interview below via Fox News.
