Despite a busy agenda that included dining with the Queen and meeting with outgoing British Prime Minister Theresa May, U.S. President Donald Trump still found time during his U.K. visit to lash out at his foes, which included singer Bette Midler of all people.
At approximately 1 a.m. local time Wednesday, in which he described the famed singer and actor as a 鈥渨ashed up psycho鈥� after she posted a meme with a fake quote attributed to him.
鈥淲ashed up psycho @BetteMidler was forced to apologize for a statement she attributed to me that turned out to be totally fabricated by her in order to make 鈥榶our great president鈥� look really bad,鈥� he wrote. 鈥淪he got caught, just like the Fake News Media gets caught. A sick scammer!鈥�
On Monday, in his younger days with an accompanying quote attributed to Trump in a 1998 People Magazine interview.
鈥淚f I were to run, I鈥檇 run as a Republican. They鈥檙e the dumbest group of voters in the country. They believe anything on Fox News. I could lie and they鈥檇 still eat it up. I bet my numbers would be terrific,鈥� the quote on the image said.
Later that day, Midler deleted the tweet and apologized for sharing the image.
鈥淭his quote turns out to be a fake from way back in 鈥�15-16. Don鈥檛 know how I missed it, but it sounds SO much like him that I believed it was true!鈥� she wrote.
Midler also shared a link with a story from the Reno Gazette Journal that debunked the widely shared meme. It鈥檚 not the first time the pair has swapped barbs as Midler regularly criticizes Trump on her Twitter account.
Around the time he posted his tweet about Midler, Trump also took aim at other political foes, including former and .
