Democratic megadonor Tom Steyer was the intended victim of one of 14 potentially explosive devices sent last week to high-profile party figures. | John Minchillo/AP Photo White House Trump, hours after preaching unity, ridicules Democratic bomb target The president had pledged Saturday 'to fight for a future of justice, safety, tolerance, morality, dignity and love.'

Hours after calling for a more civil national discourse in the wake of a mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue, President Donald Trump on Sunday ridiculed one of the targets of a spate of pipe bombs sent to high-profile members of the Democratic Party last week.

After an appearance by Democratic megadonor Tom Steyer on CNN’s “State of the Union,” the president derided the billionaire liberal activist as “Wacky” and criticized his performance in the morning-show interview, conducted by journalist Jake Tapper.


“Just watched Wacky Tom Steyer, who I have not seen in action before, be interviewed by @jaketapper,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “He comes off as a crazed & stumbling lunatic who should be running out of money pretty soon. As bad as their field is, if he is running for President, the Dems will eat him alive!”

Steyer was the intended victim of one of 14 potentially explosive devices believed to have been sent via mail by 56-year-old Cesar Sayoc of Florida, who was arrested by the FBI and charged on Friday.

The bombs were also addressed to former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama; former Vice President Joe Biden; former Attorney General Eric Holder; former CIA Director John Brennan; former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper; Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersey and Kamala Harris of California; Reps. Maxine Waters of California and Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida; Democratic megadonor George Soros; actor Robert De Niro; and CNN’s New York offices.

Steyer responded to the president in a tweet sent less than an hour later, writing online: “[email protected] just tweeted at me in his typical insulting style after watching @CNNsotu. It is unthinkable that in the midst of the horrible political violence our president would resort to name-calling instead of repairing the damage to the fabric of our country.”

During an address Saturday to the Future Farmers of America convention in Indianapolis, the president urged Americans to “rise above the hate, move past our divisions and embrace our common destiny” after the attack at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh’s heavily Jewish Squirrel Hill neighborhood.

The suspected gunman, 46-year-old Pennsylvania resident Robert Bowers, killed 11 people and wounded seven others — including four law enforcement officers — in what became the deadliest synagogue attack in American history.

The president on Saturday also pledged “to fight for a future of justice, safety, tolerance, morality, dignity and love,” and during a campaign rally in Murphysboro, Ill., that evening implored the audience to “stand with our Jewish brothers and sisters to defeat anti-Semitism and vanquish the forces of hate.”

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy also called out Steyer in a tweet posted Tuesday about next week’s midterm elections.

“We cannot allow Soros, Steyer, and [former New York Mayor Michael] Bloomberg to BUY this election! Get out and vote Republican November 6th. #MAGA,” McCarthy wrote online. He later deleted the tweet.

Steyer on Sunday said that message from the California Republican “seems to me like a straight-up anti-Semitic move.”

Soros and Bloomberg are Jewish, and Steyer’s late father was Jewish.

“I think that is a classic attempt to separate Americans,” Steyer said. “I think that absolutely falls into the category of what I’m describing as political violence.”

Steyer has been a vocal opponent of the president, collecting more than 6 million signatures through his Need to Impeach organization for a petition urging Congress to oust Trump from office.