You know you’re in the wrong when even one of the most reviled men in America thinks you suck.
Earlier this week, Martin Shkreli, founder and CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, made international headlines when he raised the price of Daraprim, a drug used to treat life-threatening parasitic infections in AIDS patients, by more than 5,000 percent, thus earning himself the title of “America’s most hated man.” Now, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump has jumped onto the Shkreli bashing bandwagon.
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Trump criticized the 32-year-old ex-hedge-funder-turned-pharmaceutical-price-gouger in the only way he knows how: By attacking his looks.
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“You want to know the truth?” Trump said during a press conference this week. “He looks like a spoiled brat.”
Then he added that “hedge fund guys” like Shkreli will be the only people who see their taxes raised if he is elected president in 2016.
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Given Shkreli’s thin skin (as demonstrated by the childish fights he’s been engaging in on Twitter), we’re sure Mr. Trump’s comments were especially bruising to the young businessman’s ego.
“There’s something about that one — the way he raised it and to that extent,” Trump continued. “And then he sat back smug, like he was hot stuff. That guy is nothing. He is zero. He is nothing.”
We never thought we’d say this, but we actually agree with the Donald on this one.
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Kenneth Myrnes
I wonder if Donald might be the father of this parasite!
Colin McCoy
Donald must hate this guy, I mean he’s stealing Trump’s M.O.
Bill Mountrey
Every once in a great while, The Hairball gets one right. Still doesn’t make him Presidential….
Emery Biggar
Shkreli forgets these drugs keep people alive. There’s no humanity in price gauging for something you know helps a life. There needs to be a cap on how much the pharmaceutical companies can increase the price of drugs for profit. Inhumane!
1EqualityUSA
Our Country is so weird.
Matt O'Brien
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black! Everyone seems to forget Donald Trump is a spoiled brat! Mr “self made business man” Trump inherited 400 million from daddy. That’s right 400 million from daddy but everyone seems to forget that huh
Bruce Dillon
YoyuKnow Damn Well tRUMP LOVES & Is INSANEly Jealous Of This PRICKle$$ Wonderkunt!
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Billy Budd
@1EqualityUSA: Yes, it is a weird country.
Rodney Church
Well, you know what they say: It takes one, to know one!
Marshall R. Krug
he should talk !
Giancarlo85
I just remembered a saying related to this article: “Even a broken clock is right twice a day”.
Finrod
@Emery Biggar: “Shkreli forgets these drugs keep people alive.”
What part of “psychopath” are you unclear on?
tjr101
Interestingly I think Shkreli is the type of person that would support Donald Trump.
Connie Carroll
Trump is horrible, but there’s a difference in jacking up the price of an apartment or hotel room in a casino compared to jacking up the price of a drug necessary to sustain life. In degrees of despicableness, the hedge fund guy wins.
Faye Denton
And Donald is correct.
money718
@Matt O’Brien: Spoiled brat? I’m not knocking Trump at all. He turned whatever his father left him into billions. He didn’t just sit on it.
Ken Overholt
I can’t wait for the board of Turing Pharmaceuticals to say, “YOU’RE FIRED!!!!”
Tony Akinremi
Its like the crazy pot to the kooky kettle.
Damian Mitch
Carrie Robins
Giancarlo85
@money718: Lol… look.. it’s a log cabin republican.
Donald Trump did that? Not really. He also overstates his worth all the time. Carlos Slim has more pocket change than all the money he has in the bank.
jwtraveler
@Finrod: Right. He didn’t forget; he doesn’t care. You know you’ve set the bar at a new low when Donald Trump is disgusted by you.
Will Glitzern
He looks like a greedy elf. Trump looks like an old, greedy, grumpy troll.
LadyL
Please. Sure Shkreli’s an asshole, but this is merely The Donald in desperate search of positive press.
Sammy Schlipshit
Gee, trump, it’s almost like you are looking in a mirror.
Both are Kings of the Douches.
Eric Carr
or is Trump just jelly cause the spoiled brat thought of it first LOL
Bob LaBlah
““You want to know the truth?” Trump said during a press conference this week. “He looks like a spoiled brat.”
I would not find it hard to believe this little queen had NO friends when he was a kid and deep in his sick ass mind he is getting even for all the gay kids who no doubt ignored him and saw him for what he was; a very troubled person.
He really reminds me of the little spoiled rotten brat in Santa Barbara who decided to pull out a gun and shoot up a college campus because he couldn’t get a date with a woman because he couldn’t accept his looks made him stand out as gay (which I still believe he was). This one takes his frustration out on gays because he has to pay for what most get for free, dick. He would get ignored even in a bathhouse on a Friday night Gay Pride weekend in NYC based on nothing else but that glued on smirk on his face.
Bob LaBlah
Thanks queerty and by the way, I get your obvious hint. I haven’t posted a comment in three days but according to you I am posting too fast.
NJjoe
How about one greedy SOB?