“While I have never met @nytdavidbrooks of the NY Times, I consider him one of the dumbest of all pundits- he has no sense of the real world!” Trump tweeted early Saturday morning.

“Reading @nytdavidbrooks of the NY Times is a total waste of time, he is a clown with no awareness of the world around him- dummy!” he added.

While I have never met @nytdavidbrooks of the NY Times, I consider him one of the dumbest of all pundits- he has no sense of the real world! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 19, 2016

Reading @nytdavidbrooks of the NY Times is a total waste of time, he is a clown with no awareness of the world around him- dummy! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 19, 2016

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Brooks wrote a column Friday morning imploring Republican leaders not to join those who are “selling their integrity for a candidate who will probably lose.”

“Donald Trump is epically unprepared to be president,” Brooks wrote. Among his complaints about the billionaire businessman:

- “He has no realistic policies, no advisers, no capacity to learn. His vast narcissism makes him a closed fortress.”

- He is running for president “with less preparation than most of us would undertake to buy a sofa.”

- “Trump is perhaps the most dishonest person to run for high office in our lifetimes. All politicians stretch the truth, but Trump has a steady obliviousness to accuracy.”

- “He is a childish man running for a job that requires maturity. He is an insecure boasting little boy whose desires were somehow arrested at age 12.”

Brooks concluded that Republicans getting on board with Trump would be a “moral failure.”