President Donald Trump blasted New York Times columnist Bret Stephens and called him a "lightweight journalist" on Wednesday.
The comments came after Trump floated the idea of hosting the next Group of Seven summit at his Doral resort.
A report resurfaced that the resort had settled a lawsuit in 2017 after a New Jersey man claimed he woke up at the Trump property with bites all over his body, Fox News reported.
Meanwhile, multiple Times staffers shared the news on social media that their newsroom has an infestation of bedbugs, according to Fox.
One Twitter user claimed the bedbugs were a metaphor and said: "The bedbugs are Bret Stephens."
Stephens deleted his Twitter account Tuesday morning after responding to the tweet, ABC News reported.
Trump's latest comments came in a tweet on Wednesday. He wrote: "'The infestation of bedbugs at The New York Times office' @OANN was perhaps brought in by lightweight journalist Bret Stephens, a Conservative who does anything that his bosses at the paper tell him to do! He is now quitting Twitter after being called a 'bed bug,' Tough guy!"
And in an earlier tweet he noted: "A made up Radical Left Story about Doral bedbugs, but Bret Stephens is loaded up with them! Been calling me wrong for years, along with the few remaining Never Trumpers - All Losers!"
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