'Nasty': Triggered Trump flips after George Stephanopoulos calls him out for racial 'slur'
A furious Donald Trump unleashed a torrent of rage in the pre-dawn hours Tuesday after an ABC News correspondent called him out for racial "slurs."
Trump's post-midnight Truth Social post railed against ABC News' George Stephanopoulos over a contentious interview with a Florida Republican who tried to defend the former president questioning of Vice President Kamala Harris' race.
"I watched three weeks ago as George Slopadopolus interviewed Crooked Joe Biden, doing everything possible to keep him in the race after his terrible Presidential Debate performance," Trump wrote about 12:20 a.m. ET. "Liddle’ George, of ABC FAKE NEWS, was so solicitous and nice, asking easy questions and doing whatever was necessary to make Sleepy, the WORST President in the history of our Country (Kamabla is the WORST V.P.), look alert and sharp.
"It didn’t work, but he tried!"
Trump has amped up his anti-media rhetoric in recent days after he responded to tough questions at the National Association of Black Journalists convention last week with responses commentators condemned as racist and likened to a train wreck.
ABC News has become a particular point of frustration for Trump after correspondent Rachel Scott asked him to justify remarks that Black lawmakers born in this country should "go back where they came from" and describing Black prosecutors as "rabid" and "animals."
On Monday, Trump appeared on the live stream of influencer Adin Ross, who famously got a friend arrested in Romania after he urged him to flee on his live stream, and insulted Scott again.
"I didn't know who she was, but she was nasty," Trump said.
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Trump didn't rail against Scott on Tuesday, but he appeared furious that Stephanopoulos challenged Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) in an interview Monday to justify his remarks on Harris' race.
"You just did it again!" Stephanopoulos told Donalds when he tried to argue Harris' Indian lineage validated Trump's comments. "Every single answer you gave, you repeated the slur."
In the earlier hours, Trump echoed the insults he hurled at Scott the day before.
"I watched Slopadopolus viciously attack Congressman Byron Donalds, a future star in the Republican Party, with nasty and totally inappropriate questions, the exact opposite of the treatment given to Crooked Joe. The good news is that Byron swatted him away like a fly, not to be heard from again!"
In a follow up post, Trump called Harris a coward, an insult she and a growing number of Truth Social users have hurled against him after he backed away from an ABC News debate slated for next month.
Trump now insists Harris, with whom he dubbed yet another nickname, must debate him on Fox News.
"Kamabla Harris is afraid," Trump wrote. "Will be easier to defeat on the Debate Stage than Crooked Joe Biden, just watch!"