Major loser.. Who?

Trump: George Will is a 'major loser'

By Nolan D. McCaskill

Conservative Washington Post columnist George Will is a “major loser,” Donald Trump said Wednesday.

Trump’s response follows Will’s April 29 column in the Post, headlined “If Trump is nominated, the GOP must keep him out of the White House.” Should Trump win the nomination, Will argued, conservatives should help him lose every state in the general election.

“Well, George is a major loser,” Trump told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” following a victory in Indiana that knocked out Ted Cruz, clearing the way for Trump to win the Republican nomination. “You know, he’s a dour guy. Nobody watches him. Very few people listen to him. It’s over for him, and I never want his support.”

Trump said Will has been writing anti-Trump columns since he announced his campaign last summer and suggested the political commentator is sour over his decision not to attend a speech he gave a decade ago in Mar-a-Lago, Trump's palatial Florida estate.

“You know, I had a run-in with him when I was in civilian life,” Trump said. “I didn’t wanna go to one of his speeches at Mar-a-Lago. He made a speech at Mar-a-Lago, and I find him to be a very boring person. You know, he’s boring and dull, and I didn’t go to the speech.”

Trump insisted he didn’t go because he had no reason to, adding that he wasn’t a politician at the time and didn’t think he’d become one.

“I said I just don’t wanna go, and he wanted me to go. And I just, you know, it was one of those things. I had something else to do,” Trump said. “He never forgot it, and he’s a nasty guy. He’s a very nasty guy. But I have to tell you this: Nobody reads him, he has no influence."

If Will had influence, Trump continued, he wouldn’t be phoning into “Morning Joe” right now as the leading Republican presidential candidate.

“Look, let’s face it, I mean, the guy writes a bad column every time he writes a column. I don’t know how often he writes them. I don’t really know.”