Donald Trump trashed Barry Diller's business acumen and love life over the weekend after the media mogul vowed to flee the country if the billionaire developer is elected president.
The Republican presidential front-runner, said in a message posted on his Twitter account:
Last week, Diller — chairman of IAC, which owns The Daily Beast, Vimeo and dating websites Match.com, OKCupid and Tinder — ripped Trump as "a huckster" on
Bloomberg.
"[He's] somebody who learned long ago in real estate that if you can make a big name for yourself, it can get you an extra dollar ... He's a self-promoting huckster who found a vein, a vein of meanness and nastiness," Diller raged.
"If Donald Trump doesn't fall, I'll either move out of the country or join the resistance."
Trump's reference to The Daily Beast concerned Diller's financing of its disastrous merger with Newsweek magazine.
And his quip about "lives lie," appeared to be a reference to Diller's sexuality and his long marriage to designer Diane Von Furstenberg.
In 2014, Diller was named by Out, a gay lifestyle magazine, as one of the "Power 50" — the "most famous gay people who are shaping the spheres of politics, entertainment, and culture in the world today."
After Trump's initial slap, he retweeted a note from a supporter who wrote:
Diller is the media executive responsible for the creation of Fox Broadcasting Company and USA Broadcasting.
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