March 3, 2016

Who Said It: Donald Trump or Mitt Romney?

My gosh, this is difficult.

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On Thursday, former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney trashed his party’s 2016 front-runner, Donald Trump, as a phony and con artist who is leading the GOP to electoral disaster. And sure, there’s some truth to that. But the two formerly pro-choice Northeast Republican businessmen have more in common than they’d like to acknowledge—from their records on immigration to their favorite sport(s) stars to their choice of profanity. Okay, maybe not the last one.

See if you can tell them apart:

Photo credits: Trump: Allen Eyestone/Zuma; Romney: Eric Draper/Zuma

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