--- title: Donald Trump Turns Up Heat on Ted Cruz and John Kasich description: Donald Trump was rankled by Ted Cruz and John Kasich in Rhode Island, spending the beginning of the rally bashing his opponents. canonical: https://time.com/4306789/donald-trump-ted-cruz-john-kasich-rhode-island/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-04-25T18:18:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T13:41:01.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump Doesn't Like the Way John Kasich Eats og:description: And he has a new nickname for him og:url: https://time.com/4306789/donald-trump-ted-cruz-john-kasich-rhode-island/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd1a143359e0d9723/69889089428a9e9eb8cd25d4/trump-rhode-island.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Warwick og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump Doesn't Like the Way John Kasich Eats twitter:description: And he has a new nickname for him twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd1a143359e0d9723/69889089428a9e9eb8cd25d4/trump-rhode-island.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Trump Back on the Warpath Against 'Lyin' Cruz and '1 for 41' Kasich > Sponsored content. 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Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Warwick, Rhode Island, April 25, 2016.Brian Snyder—Reuters  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Updated: Dec 13, 2023 1:41 PM UTCPublished: Apr 25, 2016 6:18 PM UTC Donald Trump seemed clearly rankled Monday by the decision of rivals Ted Cruz and John Kasich to team up against him, spending much of the beginning of his rally in Rhode Island bashing his opponents rather than promoting himself. Texas Sen. Cruz and Ohio Gov. Kasich [announced](http://time.com/4306047/cruz-kasich-unite-block-trump-gop-election-2016/?xid=homepage) Sunday that they would campaign tactically in Oregon, New Mexico and Indiana to try to prevent Trump from winning the Republican nomination outright. The businessman referred to the union as “collusion,” and said at the rowdy Warwick rally, “It shows such total weakness and it’s pathetic.” Trump had seemed to be toning down the bombast recently, appearing [on his best behavior](http://time.com/4305591/donald-trump-campaign-shuffle/?xid=tcoshare) at a rally in Delaware on Friday. But that mellower Trump was nowhere to be seen in Rhode Island, advancing both a new nickname and a new personal line of attack against Kasich. Calling him “1 for 41,” in reference to the fact that Kasich has only won the Ohio primary, Trump also mocked and imitated Kasich’s style of eating. “I have never seen a human being eat in such a disgusting fashion,” Trump said in reference to Kasich’s [tour of diners and eateries](http://time.com/4296876/new-york-primary-food-hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-john-kasich-ted-cruz/?iid=sr-link2). Trump said he’s trying to teach his son Barron to eat politely with small bites, so told the 10-year-old to turn away from the television when Kasich was broadcast eating. Later in the rally, Trump compared Kasich to a beggar asking for money and said he will “collapse like a rock” as soon as negative ads are run against him. Trump also reserved some choice insults for Cruz. He belittled Cruz for “\[getting\] like no votes in New York,” and hit him on the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership, saying of his rival, “He is bad for this country, and he is bad for jobs and business.” Trump left Rhode Island after the rally to head to Pennsylvania, continuing his final pitch to voters in the so-called “Acela corridor” before they head to the polls Tuesday. 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