Trump Humiliates Flailing Texas MAGA Candidate He Backed

BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty Images President Donald Trump has publicly humiliated scandal-laden Senate hopeful Ken Paxton in a series of brutal jabs.

Trump, 80, convened a crisis meeting with his most vulnerable Republican candidates and members in the paved-over Rose Garden on Wednesday evening as the party heads into a grim midterm season.

Paxton, 63, did not appear at the dinner, but Trump had plenty to say about him anyway—just not the sort of sales pitch the Texas attorney general’s Senate campaign is in dire need of.

Instead, the looks-obsessed president rattled off a list of what he thinks makes Paxton so hard to like, starting with his appearance.

“Ken Paxton, you might not like the way he dresses.

And I say this, it’s so insulting to him, but I might as well say it,” Trump said, shrugging his shoulders.

“You might not... like the way he looks.

You might not love his look.

You might not love his television interviews.” “But he was the best attorney general in the country, perhaps,” he continued, glossing over the fact that the attorney general was impeached by the Texas House on bribery and corruption-related charges before being acquitted by the Texas Senate.

“He was one of the best in the entire country.

And that speaks a lot louder than the suit he’s wearing that doesn’t look so great—or, than anything, frankly.” A single laugh could be heard from the audience.

It was the third time Trump had raised the issue of Paxton’s likability on Wednesday alone, as he seemingly wrestles with the consequences of his decision to endorse Paxton over incumbent Sen.

John Cornyn despite Republican concerns that Paxton would be the weaker candidate.

Texas State Rep.