O'Malley: There's nothing 'tough' about Donald Trump

There’s nothing “tough” about Donald Trump’s rhetoric on immigration, Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley said Tuesday.

“I don’t find anything tough about Donald Trump at all,” the former governor of Maryland told MSNBC’s “The Rundown with Jose Diaz-Balart.” “In fact, my parents taught us that this is not strength, this is weakness when you attack and you scapegoat other people and talk less of other human beings, as he has done in such hate-filled ways,” O’Malley said.


O’Malley trolled Trump last week in front of his gold-plated Las Vegas luxury hotel, speaking with a group of hotel workers who want to form a union.

Public figures need to push back more against Trump and the language he is using, O’Malley said.

“It’s not funny, it’s not entertaining, and it is unbecoming of the United States of America and the office of president — of the president,” he added.

The former governor has recently been one of Trump’s targets, as well.

In a Fox News interview aired over the weekend, Trump called O’Malley a “disgusting, little, weak, pathetic, baby” for apologizing last month for making the statement that “all lives” and “white lives matter” in addition to “black lives matter,” a remark that drew criticism from liberals for missing the point of the Black Lives Matter movement.