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Donald Trump is probably the most thin-skinned person ever to run for President of the US, and today he’s seething with rage at… conservative talk radio host Hugh Hewitt. Yep, really.

If you listen to the excerpt from Hewitt’s show above, you’ll see why; Trump comes off as a total ignoramus on Middle East policy. He doesn’t even know the difference between Hamas and Hezbollah, and when Hewitt asks him a question about the Quds Force, a contingent of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards that’s been operating in Syria, Trump launches into some talking points about the Kurds — after insisting he was familiar with the leader of the Quds Force, Gen. Qasem Soleimani.

It’s an amazingly pathetic performance, ending with Trump telling Hewitt that by the time he’s elected President, “I’ll know more about it than you will ever know,” saying “the names you just mentioned, they probably won’t even be there in six months or a year,” and accusing Hewitt of asking “gotcha questions.”

By the way, Hassan Nasrallah, one of the names Hewitt mentioned, has been leader of Hezbollah for about 23 years now, and it’s a pretty sure bet he’ll still be there in “six months or a year.”

And today, Donald Trump went on Morning Joe and called Hewitt a “third-rate radio announcer.” His massive ego suffered a real blow, and now he’s lashing out — even though Hewitt could not possibly have been more deferential to him, despite his obvious ignorance.

This is turning into a real gladiator show; The Donald is ripping the conservative movement apart. But the right wing base still loves this boorish, nasty racist cretin.