--- description: "He has spent a career sticking it to working Americans and that is what we pointed out last night" title: Marco Rubio Calls Donald Trump a 'Con Artist' image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Politics](/section/politics/) ## Politics Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [2016 Election](/tag/2016-election/) ## 2016 Election Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Marco Rubio Keeps Up Attacks on 'Con Artist' Trump by [Tara John](/author/tara-john/) ## Tara John Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 26, 2016 1:27 PM CUT by [Tara John](/author/tara-john/) ## Tara John Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 26, 2016 1:27 PM CUT White House hopeful Marco Rubio is not going easy on Republican frontrunner Donald Trump after turning his fire on the Republican frontrunner in [Thursday night](http://time.com/4238363/republican-debate-tenth-houston-cnn-telemundo-transcript-full-text/?xid=homepage "undefined")‘s debate. [In an interview with _TODAY_](http://www.today.com/video/marco-rubio-trump-is-a-con-artist-we-must-put-an-end-to-this-lunacy-631823427720 "undefined") on Friday, the GOP nominee said that he would prefer not to fight with other Republicans, but when it comes to Trump “we are on the verge of having someone taking over the conservative movement in the republican party who is a con artist.” “He is telling people that he is fighting his is target audience is working Americans who are really struggling over the last few years in this economy but he has spent a career sticking it to working Americans and that is what we pointed out last night” he said. When asked about Trump refusing to release his taxes, Rubio also accused Trump of not being as successful as he makes out to be. “But the reason why Donald wont release his taxes is because he hasn’t made nearly enough money as he claims he does I mean this is a guy who has taken trump airlines bankrupt.. Trump vodka, no one wants it, Trump mortage was a disaster and Trump university was a fraud” said Rubio. Rubio called Trump a “con artist” at least three times in the interview and [according to POLITICO](http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/02/marco-rubio-donald-trump-con-artist-219843 "undefined"), at least five times on _CBS This Morning_. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4238492/marco-rubio-donald-trump-a-con-artist/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4238492/marco-rubio-donald-trump-a-con-artist/"},"headline":"Marco Rubio Keeps Up Attacks on 'Con Artist' Trump","datePublished":"2016-02-26T13:27:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T15:24:32.672Z","description":"\"He has spent a career sticking it to working Americans and that is what we pointed out last night\"","url":"https://time.com/4238492/marco-rubio-donald-trump-a-con-artist/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tara John","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tara-john/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4238492/marco-rubio-donald-trump-a-con-artist/","name":"Marco Rubio Keeps Up Attacks on 'Con Artist' Trump"}}]}] ```