Trump mocks US democratic presidential aspirant O’Rourke, says ‘he quits like a dog’

United States President, Donald Trump, has ridiculed Beto O’Rourke just hours after the Democratic presidential hopeful ended his campaign.

The president used a profanity to describe his rival and said he “quit like a dog.”

Mr. O’Rourke, a former Texas congressman, was highly critical of Mr. Trump after a mass shooting in his hometown of El Paso in August, the BBC reports.

He called the bloodshed a “consequence” of Mr. Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric.

On Friday Mr. O’Rourke said he was quitting the race for the White House as his campaign did not have “the means to move forward successfully.”

Mr. Trump’s response came days after he said Islamic State (ISIS) leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, had “died like a dog” during a US military operation in north-western Syria.

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Speaking at a rally in Tupelo, Mississippi, the president branded Mr. O’Rourke a “poor, pathetic guy.”

“He came out of Texas a very hot political property, and he went back as cold as you can be,” Mr. Trump declared.

He had earlier mocked Mr. O’Rourke on Twitter.

He also described former Vice-President Joe Biden, a frontrunner in the race for the Democratic nomination, as mentally deficient, and said he was “dropping like a rock.”

Turning to the impeachment inquiry against him, the president said he believed an “angry majority” of American voters would support him.

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