Trump: Mitt Romney ‘Is a Stiff’

LAUER: “We are joined now on the phone by the republican frontrunner for the presidential nomination , Donald Trump. Mr. Trump, good morning.”
TRUMP: "Good morning, Matt."
GUTHRIE: “Mr. Trump, it's Savanah. We just got excerpts from Mitt Romney’s speech today. He calls you among other things a phony, a fraud, and he says you are playing Americans for suckers. Your response?”
TRUMP: “Well, he begged me four years ago for my endorsement. Literally begged me and he is a failed candidate. I mean, frankly, I backed him. he failed. He was a horrible candidate. Didn't know what he was doing. He disappeared in the last month before the election while in all fairness Barack Obama was doing all of the shows--Jay Leno, he was doing David Letterman. This guy disappeared, he went away and he got killed, he got decimated in the election. I will say this. if you look at what is happening and you see I won a lot of different states, maybe more importantly, millions and millions of people are joining the Republican Party and going out to vote. And on the democratic side, you will see what is happening,  they are down 30 percent. The Republicans are way up higher than they have ever been in setting records because people are energized by what I’m saying. The American worker is making less money now than they have made 12 years ago, Matt,  and we losing all of our trade, we are losing our jobs. And people are tired of it.”
LAUER: “I want to go back to Mitt Romney for a second. Do you fear that he could now become a unifying voice in this fractured and frantic effort on the establishment side to stop you?”
TRUMP: “Mitt Romney is a stiff. Mitt Romney will not get elected. Mitt Romney failed twice and really failed last time. He was going against a president that should have been beaten. The president was not doing well and he should have been beaten. That should have been an easy election. The problem is nobody came out to vote for Mitt Romney. I’m talking about Republicans. They didn't came out, I mean, it is well documented. I’m not just saying this. They didn’t come out to vote for Mitt Romney.”