The Donald Savages 2016 GOP Presidential Hopefuls...

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Daily Mall - Donald Trump isn't looking past the Republican primary and sharpening his manicured claws for Hillary Clinton. Not yet.

In a 70-minute speech before an audience of 1,500 in Sarasota, Florida on Thursday night, the business titan and storied dealmaker took shots at his fellow Republicans.

The crowd went wild and chanted Trump's name even before he took the stage at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Center to receive the 'Statesman of the Year' award from the local Republican party.

And afterward as hundreds streamed out into the muggy Florida night, they surrounded Trump's car like groupies clamoring for a closer look at a movie star.

'There's never been anything like this,' Paige Green of Sarasota told Daily Mail Online as the red-meat conservative audience left. 'Not here.'

Other than the large-scale events where some Republican presidential candidates have launched their campaigns, Thursday night's gathering drew a larger turnout than any other speech this year by a single GOP hopeful.

Trump, 68, leveled his aim and fired at Florida's former governor Jeb Bush and the state's junior senator Marco Rubio, along with former tech CEO Carly Fiorina.

His criticism of the Republican competition isn't new, but the intensity of the attacks is. Trump already has a presidential exploratory committee and is expected to launch a campaign in mid-June.

Most of his jabs brought enthusiastic applause.

'It's hard for me,' he said. 'I like these people but they don't have it. It's not gonna happen. Even the people I do like – it’s not going to happen, folks. They’re not doing what I do. I do it better than anybody.'

'It's going to be an election, in my opinion, about competence. And I'm the most competent by far.'

Carly Fiorina 'ran a company and she got viciously fired,' Trump said. 'Viciously.'

'She was walked out of there. And the stock went up 7 points the day she got fired. That's not a good sign.'

Trump, whose signature line 'You're Fired' has propelled him through 14 seasons of 'Apprentice' shows on NBC, said Fiorina's dismissal was one for the history books.

'I know about firing people. I fire people all day long,' he said. 'I make millions of dollars firing people on television. I know more about firing than anybody in the world.'

'She got fired more viciously than anybody I've ever fired.'

Fiorina's next career turn was a 2010 U.S. Senate campaign against Barbara Boxer, which she lost by ten points.

'She loses in a landslide. A landslide!' Trump boomed. 'And now she says, "Okay, now I'm going to run for president." Give me a break!'

He also slammed Bush and Rubio in front of an assembly of right-leaning Floridians who likely voted for both.

'They're not getting us to the promised land,' Trump said.

He picked at the two for hemming and hawing on the question of whether President George W. Bush's 2004 decision to invade Iraq was the right call.

'I like Jeb Bush. He's a nice person. But when he was asked about Iraq, he couldn't give an answer,' Trump said. 'It took him four days before he got his answer straight.'

Bush endured a painful stretch of days last week following his indecision about whether or not the Iraq war was justified in hindsight.

He replied 'Yes' and 'I don't know' in separate interviews, and claimed he misunderstood the question the first time it was asked.

'How would you like him negotiating with the terrorists?' Trump said of the former governor.

Rubio was tripped up by the same Iraq question on 'Fox News Sunday' last weekend.

'I still say it was not a mistake because the president was presented with intelligence that said Iraq had weapons of mass destruction,' he said at first. 'It was governed by a man who had committed atrocities in the past with weapons of mass destruction.'

But moments later he seemed to reverse course.

'Based on what we know now, I think everyone agrees–' Rubio said before the host jumped in.

'So was it a mistake now?'

'I don't understand the question you're asking,' a frazzled Rubio replied.

Trump mocked the interview on Thursday as 'a horror show,' noting that he 'had the benefit of watching Jeb make a total fool out of himself' days earlier.

'I don't even know how he could be running for office,' Trump said. 'We can't put ourselves through this.'

'He couldn't answer "Is the Iraq war a good thing or a bad thing?"'

Trump offered his own analysis in a stream-of-consciousness argument that sounded like the Jewish comic Jackie Mason.

'Well, I don't know,' he said. 'We spend $2 trillion, we lost thousands of lives, we've got wounded warriors – who I love more than anybody – all over the place. And you can't say if it was a bad thing?'

He also lamented the fact that the U.S. 'got nothing' in return.

'Remember, I said we should keep the oil.'

Trump crowed about his week-long offensive this year that he said drove Mitt Romney out of the 2016 campaign picture.

'Once a choker, always a choker,' he said, explaining why the 2012 Republican candidate needed to go.

'That was an easy election. We had a failed president.'

'Romney had one thing going for him,' Trump claimed. 'He's good-looking. Other than that, there's nothing, okay? Even when he walked around the stage he walked like a penguin.'

Without a doubt The Donald sure knows how to put on a great and entertaining show. Even if it's just read meat.

Trump is having the time of his life. After all he is a showman, and a damn good one at that. However he does have one thing right, most politicians really are ALL TALK and NO ACTION.

Via: Memeorandum