Trump calls Schumer ‘cunning’ in deleted tweet

Donald Trump called Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) “cunning” in a tweet praising the incoming Senate Democratic leader that the president-elect later deleted.

{mosads}”I have always had a good relationship with Chuck Shumer. He is much smarter than Harry R, and actually, far more cunning – gets things done!” the president-elect originally tweeted on Sunday morning.

Trump also misspelled Schumer’s name in the original tweet, which included a reference to outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). That tweet was deleted.

A new tweet was then posted without the word “cunning.”

“I have always had a good relationship with Chuck Schumer. He is far smarter than Harry R and has the ability to get things done. Good news!” he said in the new tweet, which is still up.

Evidently Trump first called Schumer “cunning,” then deleted and re-did the tweet. pic.twitter.com/ioYK92E1Kg

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) November 20, 2016

Schumer, who is set to be the Senate Democratic caucus’s lead negotiator with Trump’s administration, denied this weekend he and Trump ever had a close relationship.

“He was not my friend. We never went golfing together, even had a meal together,” Schumer said in an interview with Politico published Saturday. 

“He’s called me, we’ve had civil conversations a couple of times. But I’ve got to see what he does.”

During his campaign, the president-elect claimed he would be able to get along well with Schumer.

“I was always very good with Schumer. I was close to Schumer in many ways,” he said during a January interview with MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”