5 times Trump boomeranged insults right back at the people who said them


President Trump has one thing to say: I know you are, but what am I?
On Tuesday, Trump was asked for his response to a Washington Post opinion column proclaiming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) "is a Russian asset." "I think The Washington Post is a Russian asset," Trump said before going on to relay this odd sentence.
Trump's Post insults may seem better suited for a playground than a White House, but they're far from the first time he's called himself rubber and accused someone else of being glue. Take Trump's performance during a 2016 presidential debate with Hillary Clinton where, when she called him a "puppet" of Russian President Vladimir Putin, he responded: "No puppet. No puppet. You're the puppet!"
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Last November, an ABC News reporter asked Trump about a poll that questioned whether the president's rhetoric was encouraging violence. "You're creating violence by your question," Trump shot back. There's also the time House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) complained about Trump's then-Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker not being Senate approved. "Bob Mueller (who is highly conflicted) was not approved by the Senate," Trump responded in a tweet, citing former Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
And just last week, Trump added another unoriginal insult to the playbook. When Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) labeled him a racist, Trump responded by suggesting "racist Elijah Cummings" is overlooking the people of his Baltimore-area district.
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Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.
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