Trump gets in some last jabs at Jeb

A day after boasting that he’d “love” to fight Vice President Joe Biden, Donald Trump on Wednesday took at jab at Jeb Bush with one hand while he slapped at Hillary Clinton with the other.

“Hillary said, ‘Donald Trump took time off the campaign.’ Can you believe it?” Trump asked a group of a few hundred invited guests during a relatively small rally in Charlotte, North Carolina. “Here’s a woman who goes home and she goes to sleep all the time. Think of it. She’s got no energy whatsoever.”


Clinton took a swipe at Trump during her own rally Wednesday afternoon in Lake Worth, Florida, for pausing his campaign to celebrate a hotel, remarking that “while the hotel may be new, it’s the same old story because once again,” he relied on undocumented workers for cheaper labor, most of the products inside the rooms were made overseas and Trump sued to get his taxes lowered.

“So, you know, you can talk a good game but let’s look at the facts,” she said. “And the facts show he has stiffed American workers. He has stiffed American businesses.”

At his rally, Trump exaggerated that “everyone’s talking about the fact that I’ll do seven, eight, nine stops, I’ll make three or four major speeches” before boasting about his crowd size in Tallahassee, Florida, on Tuesday night and the thousands more expected to attend his next stop in Kinston, North Carolina.

“I got home at 1 o’clock in the morning,” Trump said, before comparing Clinton to the former Florida governor, who was considered a favorite to challenge Clinton in the general election. “Here’s a woman, she makes a speech for 15 minutes, she goes to home, goes to bed. Honestly, she has less energy than Jeb Bush. I mean it. I mean it.”

Trump said he invoked his former Republican rival because “he’s open game” for not standing by his pledge to support the GOP nominee. “So he signed the pledge, right? But he didn’t honor it,” Trump said. “How do you — how do you live with yourself, you know?”

Trump took time off the trail earlier Wednesday to celebrate the grand opening of Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., before flying to North Carolina for two rallies.

“I just left a hotel. Beautiful, beautiful building,” he said in Charlotte. “It was the Old Post Office on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. And it’s mine. And it was just built. It’s right between the Capitol building and the White House. So this way I figure I’ll get to Washington one way or the other, right?”

Trump also praised a supporter who shouted of his opponent, “She’s useless.”

“See, I’m not allowed to say it, but — but I’ll accept it. Who said that?” he asked, as the crowd began to cheer in acknowledgment. “A star is born. Now if I said that, I’d be in big trouble.”