Leave me out

Rubio: Leave me out of Trump's 'freak show'

By Nick Gass

Marco Rubio wants no part of Donald Trump's "freak show," the Florida Republican senator and presidential candidate said in an NPR interview aired Monday.

“I’m not interested in the back and forth — to be a member or a part of his freak show," Rubio remarked. "I would just say this: He is a very sensitive person; he doesn’t like to be criticized. He responds to criticism very poorly.”

The comments echo what Rubio told Fox News' Bill O'Reilly last Thursday, calling the billionaire mogul "thin-skinned and sensitive to criticism" and someone who "can't have a conversation about policy because quite frankly he doesn't know anything about policy.”

For his part, Trump has repeatedly called out Rubio for his attendance record in the Senate, calling him "a kid," "overly ambitious," "too young," and joking that he has better hair than the 44-year-old senator. He also dinged him for his finances, for being "disloyal" to former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, and for his allegedly propensity to sweat.

"I've never seen a young guy sweat so much," Trump said in South Carolina last week, talking about the long debate and the hot stage under which all candidates stood for more than three hours. "He’s drinking water, water, water, I never saw anything like this with him with the water."