After calling the real estate mogul “shallow,” a “narcissist and an egomaniac” and a “non-serious carnival act” at an event in Washington DC on Thursday, the Louisiana governor on Friday launched a Twitter battle against Mr Trump.
Weighing in on Mr Trump making fun of fellow Republican candidate Carly Fiorina’s looks, he told CBS News that the billionaire “should stop attacking other people’s appearances.”
“I think it’s pretty outrageous for him to be attacking anybody’s appearance,” Mr Jindal said, especially “when he looks like he’s got a squirrel sitting on his head.”
Responding to Mr Jindal’s attack on his hair, Mr Trump took to Twitter sarcastically calling it “so original.”
Oh wow, lightweight Governor @BobbyJindal, who is registered at less than 1 percent in the polls, just mocked my hair. So original!
– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 11, 2015
Mr Jindal then tweeted:
So yesterday I pointed out @realDonaldTrump is a substance-free narcissist… All he heard was a stray comment about his hair…I rest my case.
– Gov. Bobby Jindal (@BobbyJindal) September 11, 2015
He also went to MSNBC and Fox News to criticise Mr Trump for having “no substance.”
“He is not for making America great. He’s for making Donald Trump great,” he said. “That’s not what we need right now.”
Earlier on Thursday, Mr Trump responded to Jindal’s first attack on Twitter, saying that “Bobby Jindal did not make the debate stage and therefore I have never met him.”
He would “only respond to people that register more than one per cent in the polls,” Mr Trump wrote. “I never thought he had a chance and I’ve been proven right.”
In response, Mr Jindal mocked the businessman with a line Mr Trump has popularly used to criticise candidates like Jeb Bush.
“I’m disappointed,” he tweeted. “Is this the best you can do? Are you suffering from low energy today?”
Mr Jindal later wrote a message that “we have met. You wrote a cheque. A fool & his money are soon parted. A fool & his dad’s money are parted sooner.”
Mr Jindal is languishing at the bottom of polls with only one per cent support and will not appear on CNN’s September 16 primetime Republican presidential debate where Mr Trump will be centre stage.
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