Trump on Monday repeated a woman at a rally in New Hampshire who called Cruz a p---- for his response on waterboarding in Saturday’s debate. | AP Photo Trump on using P-word: ‘It’s like a retweet’

Donald Trump on Tuesday equated parroting a phrase calling Ted Cruz a p---- to a Twitter retweet.

“We were having a lot of fun…it wasn’t overly bad, and I have to tell you, the woman shouted, shouted, I said OK, I’m gonna — it’s like a retweet,” he told “Fox & Friends” on Tuesday. “So I would never say a word like that.”


Trump on Monday repeated a woman at a rally in New Hampshire who called Cruz a p---- for his response on waterboarding in Saturday’s debate. “She said he’s a p----,” Trump announced to the Manchester crowd.

“By the way, can I tell you what?” Trump began Tuesday. “The audience went crazy. Standing ovation. Five thousand people went nuts. They loved it. You know, we’re having fun. And that’s what I mean about being politically correct. Every once in a while you can have a little fun, don’t you think?”

Trump frequently echoes comments from people on Twitter with his manual retweets. Last month, for example, he retweeted a Jeb Bush insult from a neo-Nazi account named @WhiteGenocideTM, as well as an attack calling Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly a “bimbo” for posing in GQ magazine.