Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, accompanied by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., arrives to speak at the Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal in Cincinnati, Monday, June 27. | AP Photo Clinton, Warren team up to trash Trump Warren calls Trump a man ‘who wants it all for himself’ while Clinton blasts him for controversies he has sparked.

Hillary Clinton and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Monday appeared on the campaign trail together for the first time, firing up a Cincinnati crowd from behind a lectern reading “Stronger Together.”

And together, their latest attack — a tag-team assault on Donald Trump — was just that: stronger.


Warren opened the volley by countering the real estate mogul’s “goofy” attack line, suggesting the billionaire businessman look in the mirror (Trump has mocked Warren over her Native American ancestry by calling her “Pocahontas” and repeatedly urged Clinton to choose the “goofy” liberal firebrand as her running mate).

“Donald Trump says he’ll make America great again,” Warren said, invoking Trump’s ubiquitous campaign slogan. “It’s right there. It’s stamped on the front of his goofy hat. You want to see goofy? Look at him in that hat.”

That was just the beginning. Warren, who has relentlessly and unabashedly launched attacks at the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, continued doing just that, asking for whom Trump would make America great.

“For millions of kids struggling to pay for an education? For millions of seniors barely surviving on Social Security? For families that don’t fly to Scotland to play golf?” she asked, the last line an implicit rebuke of Trump, who visited the nation last week for the opening of one of his golf courses. “When Donald Trump says he’ll make America great, he means make it even greater for rich guys just like Donald Trump.”

Speaking to reporters at his Turnberry golf course Friday, Trump also celebrated Brexit — another point on which Warren attacked him, as well as for cheering the 2008 financial crisis because it benefited him.

“What kind of a man does that? What kind of a man roots for people to lose their jobs, to lose their homes, to lose their life’s savings?” she asked. “I’ll tell you what kind of a man: A small, insecure, money grubber who fights for no one but himself. What kind of a man? A nasty man who will never become president of the United States.”

Warren described Trump as a man “who wants it all for himself” and warned supporters that “he will crush you into the dirt to get whatever he wants.”

But Clinton, Warren said, knows how to beat a “thin-skinned bully who is driven by greed and hate”: by standing her ground and fighting back. Clinton has the brains, guts, thick skin, steady hands and a good heart that America needs, Warren stressed, adding that those qualities are why she’s backing the former secretary of state.

“She’s been on the receiving end of one right-wing attack after another for 25 years. But she has never backed down,” Warren said. “She doesn’t whine. She doesn’t run to Twitter to call her opponents fat pigs or dummies. No, she just remembers who really needs someone on their side. And she gets up and keeps right on fighting for the people who need her most.”

Warren contrasted Clinton and Trump on values, praising Clinton for her stance on debt-free college and stronger Wall Street regulations, for example, while ridiculing Trump for allegedly defrauding students at his now-defunct Trump University and wanting to free “poor, sad little Wall Street bankers” to defraud Americans.

“You know I could do this all day. I really could. But I won’t. I won’t,” Warren said. “OK, one more. One more. Donald Trump calls African-Americans thugs, Muslims terrorists, Latinos rapists and criminals, and women bimbos. Hillary Clinton believes that racism, hatred, injustice and bigotry have no place in our country.”

“She fights for us, and we will fight for Hillary Clinton. She fights for us,” Warren continued, before introducing the former secretary of state. “Please join me in welcoming to the stage our next president, Hillary Clinton!”

Clinton embraced Warren and said she was “delighted” to be with her, calling her a friend and “great leader.” Earlier this month, the two met privately and Warren stopped by Clinton’s Brooklyn campaign headquarters.

“Now, you just saw why she is considered so terrific, so formidable, because she tells it like it is. I am very grateful for that introduction,” Clinton said, before thanking the senator for fighting for everyday Americans.

“And I must say I do just love to see how she gets under Donald Trump’s thin skin. As Elizabeth made clear, Donald Trump proves every day he’s not in it for the American people,” Clinton added. “He’s in it only for himself. Elizabeth reminds us of that every chance she gets because it is really important that voters here in Ohio and voters across America understand this. She exposes him for what he is: temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified to be president of the United States.”

Clinton’s effusive praise of Warren — the Massachusetts senator is leading the fight to liberate millions from student debt, Clinton said, and no one works harder to ensure that Wall Street doesn’t wreck Main Street — adds fuel to the speculation of a historic two-woman ticket.

“Now, some of the best TV since Elizabeth came to the Senate is actually on C-SPAN. So when you see her pressing a bank executive or a regulator for answers, refusing to let them off the hook, remember, she is speaking for every single American who is frustrated and fed up,” Clinton said during the rally at Union Terminal. “She is speaking for all of us, and we thank her for that. I am thrilled that Elizabeth could be here with me in this glorious beautiful building that has been rehabbed and put to new use as a museum, because we want to make the point together that we must have an economy that works for everyone again, not just those at the top, not just the rich or the well-connected. Everybody.”

When Clinton wasn’t praising Warren or ticking through her stump speech, she was on the offensive against her likely general election opponent.

“He rails against other countries, doesn’t he? He says he’s for our workers, but Trump’s own products are made in a lot of countries that aren’t named America,” Clinton said, echoing her speech last week questioning Trump’s economic bona fides. “Trump Suits were made in Mexico. He could have had them made in Brooklyn, Ohio. Trump Furniture is made in Turkey instead of Cleveland. Trump Barware is made in Slovenia instead of Toledo. So how does that all fit into his talk about America first? But that’s just the start.”

Clinton railed against Trump, blasting him for a series of controversies he has sparked throughout his campaign.

“This is a man who plays coy with white supremacists and mocks people with disabilities, who talks about banning an entire religion from entering our country, who advocates getting rid of gun-free zones in schools, letting more countries have nuclear weapons, defaulting on our national debt, turning back the clock on marriage equality,” Clinton said. “And just like Elizabeth, I could go on and on.”

And she did. Clinton slammed Trump for his reaction to the recent mass shooting in Orlando, Florida, during which 49 people were killed and 53 injured.

His response “was to publicly congratulate himself,” Clinton said. “And on Friday, when Britain voted to leave the European Union, he crowed from his golf course about how the disruption could end up creating higher profits for that golf course, even though within 24 hours Americans lost $100 billion from our 401(k)s. He tried to turn a global economic challenge into an infomercial.”

