(UPDATED WITH RESPONSE FROM RICH LOWRY BELOW)
Tonight on Fox News, Rich Lowry told Megyn Kelly that the reason Trump is going after Carly Fiorina is that ‘she cut his balls off with the precision of a surgeon‘ in the last debate and thus she has become a much bigger target for Trump to take aim at.
Well Trump didn’t like that one bit, and immediately tweeted out the following:
Incompetent @RichLowry lost it tonight on @FoxNews. He should not be allowed on TV and the FCC should fine him!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 24, 2015
.@FoxNews owes me an apology for allowing clueless pundit @RichLowry to use such foul language on TV. Unheard of!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 24, 2015
Carly did rip Trump a new one when asked about the remarks he made about her face. I’ll certainly give her that. But when they both went at it debating business histories, many felt that Trump bested her. Indeed he’s still leading strongly in the polls. So I’m not sure that Lowry’s statement is totally true. Nevertheless, I don’t think Fox News is going to be issuing any apologies to Trump anytime soon.
Watch the segment with Lowry below:
UPDATE: Perhaps related to all this, Trump has just tweeted that he’ll be on both MSNBC and CNN tomorrow morning:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/646864696965005312
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/646863677166080000
UPDATE 2: And the Twitter war has officially begun as Rich Lowry rips Trump over his comments:
.@realDonaldTrump I thought the Carly cut your balls off line might bother you, but you know it's true…
— Rich Lowry (@RichLowry) September 24, 2015
.@realDonaldTrump I love how Mr. Anti-PC now wants the FCC to fine me. #pathetic
— Rich Lowry (@RichLowry) September 24, 2015
.@realDonaldTrump so it's OK for you to insult Carly's looks, but you can't handle me describing what happened to you in the debate?
— Rich Lowry (@RichLowry) September 24, 2015
.@realDonaldTrump man, you can dish it out but you REALLY, REALLY can't take it
— Rich Lowry (@RichLowry) September 24, 2015
.@realDonaldTrump a deal for you, Donald: if you apologize to Carly for your boorish insult, I might stop noting how she cut your b**** off
— Rich Lowry (@RichLowry) September 24, 2015