Trump: Romney prefers Clinton to me

Donald Trump on Monday said he thinks Mitt Romney would prefer seeing Hillary Clinton in the White House next year.

“I do, I think so,” Trump said on SiriusXM’s “Breitbart News Daily” when asked if Romney would rather have a Clinton administration in 2017.

{mosads}“He’s a jealous guy,” Trump said of Romney. “He’s got a lot of problems. He goes around having meetings about Donald Trump. He ought to go into retirement and relax, because he’s wasting a lot of people’s time. There’s no reason for him to do this.”

Romney, the GOP’s presidential nominee in 2012, is a strident critic of Trump, the party’s presumptive 2016 nominee, vowing that he will never vote for him. On Friday, he called Trump a “dangerous” option for voters.

“Presidents have an impact on the nature of our nation, and trickle-down racism, trickle-down bigotry, trickle-down misogyny, all these things are extremely dangerous to the heart and character of America,” he said on CNN.

Trump on Monday said Romney’s vocal criticism of him stems from bitterness over his failed Oval Office bid four years ago.

“He probably still feels guilty that he lost the election,” he said of the former governor of Massachusetts. “He was running against a failed president.

“That was an election he should have won so easily,” Trump added. “He lost by a lot. Romney’s a loser. I backed him, but we don’t want to give a choker a second chance. Whatever happened, he was way off.”

Trump said establishment Republicans must stop resisting his campaign and help him vanquish Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, in the fall.

“I have to say the Republicans better get smart, they better start sticking together,” he said. “I get more votes than anybody in the history of primary elections, ever.

“[Clinton’s] not equipped to be president. And she’s not, she’s not, and I understand that. You have more of [President] Obama, but I think even worse in a certain sense.”