Please clap for Mitt Romney's 5 best Donald Trump takedowns

"A business genius he is not."
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Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney just delivered a takedown of current Republican front-runner Donald Trump.

In a speech on Thursday, Romney made the case for why Trump is bad for America. (In his own Mitt Romney way.) Here are five of his best burns:


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"A business genius he is not."


"We've long referred to him as 'The Donald' ... and it wasn't because he had attributes we admired."



"The country would sink into prolonged recession."


"Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud. His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University."


"He gets a free ride to the White House and all we get is a lousy hat."

Trump had this to say:


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Megan Specia was Mashable's Assistant Real-Time News Editor and joined the team in September 2014. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism & Mass Communications from the University of New Hampshire after growing up in the Jersey 'burbs. She made her way to New York via a four year stopover in Dublin. Megan previously worked as a journalist and editor at Storyful in both Dublin and New York. Before all of that, though, her claim to fame was as head cake arranger and purveyor of all things sweet at Queen of Tarts cafe in Dublin, where she developed a serious addiction to macarons.

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