Marco Rubio isn't done mocking Donald Trump.
The Florida senator gleefully hurled one-liners against the GOP front-runner Friday, upping his rhetoric after a punchy Thursday night debate.
"It's time to pull his mask off so we can see what we are dealing with here," he said at a campaign stop in Dallas, calling Trump a "con artist" who "has spent his entire career sticking it to the little guy."
Rubio read a series of Trump's tweets, mocking Trump's spelling errors (he called Rubio a "chocker"), zinging him for hiring undocumented immigrants, and joking about him peeing his pants during the debate.
During a commercial break at the debate, Trump "was having a meltdown," Rubio said.
"First he had this little makeup thing applying makeup around his mustache, because he had one of those sweat mustaches. Then he asked for a full-length mirror. I don't know why because the podium goes up to here," Rubio said, gesturing at chest-level. "But he wanted a full-length mirror, maybe to make sure his pants weren't wet."
After reading some of Trump's recent Twitter tirades off his iPhone, Rubio joked that Trump might have hired "foreign workers to write his tweets." (Trump also misspelled "leightweight" and "chocker.")
The attacks come after months of Rubio avoiding a direct assault on Trump — only to go ham on him at Thursday night's debate.
Rubio isn't the only one mocking Trump's tweets — Merriam Webster tweeted at Trump correcting his word usage Friday morning.
honer: one that hones (https://t.co/76PlKG8PA6)
leightweight: We have no. idea.
chocker: https://t.co/geeDMqiS4D https://t.co/2km86hZAVQ— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) February 26, 2016
Trump tacitly acknowledged his mistakes — the offending tweets were quickly deleted and retweeted with correct spellings, as shown below.
Lightweight Marco Rubio was working hard last night. The problem is, he is a choker, and once a choker, always a choker! Mr. Meltdown.— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 26, 2016