President Donald Trump got a taste of one of his own favorite insults during an exchange with reporters on Friday.
“How does it feel being a loser, Mr. President?” Sky News international affairs editor Dominic Waghorn called out at the president days after his candidates were trounced around the nation in the midterm elections.
“If he heard he chose not to respond,” Waghorn wrote on X after the exchange.
Waghorn was referring to Trump’s losses in the midterms, as he had spent the month asking Americans to vote like he was on the ballot. They did, and Trump’s party ― including many of his handpicked candidates ― lost in a historic defeat.
But Trump himself often uses the word as an insult.
During a White House press briefing on Monday, Trump used the word “loser” eight times. He called Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) a “loser” and a “stone-cold loser.” He called CNN’s Kaitlan Collins “a loser.” He called CNN’s ratings “a loser.”
He even called wind turbines “a major loser.”
Trump, however, did admit earlier this year that he does have one use for “losers.”
“It’s a good thing to have a lot of losers,” he said at a Q&A in Miami in March, according to People. “I always like to hang around with losers, actually, because it makes me feel better.”