Trump accuses Cruz of ripping off movie lines, as fight over their wives escalates

It wouldn't be a day on the campaign trail in 2016, without a day of Donald Trump insulting his opponents on Twitter — especially his fellow Republicans, whose party he's been taking over.

Trump kicked off the tirade with this line Wednesday afternoon, against his main remaining challenger Ted Cruz:

This refers to the interesting resemblance that some people have noticed, between Cruz boldly defending his wife Heidi's honor against Trump's latest attack in their ongoing feud — and a line from the 1995 Aaron Sorkin movie The American President. (The liberal fantasy movie was essentially the forerunner of Sorkin's TV show The West Wing, and even co-starred Martin Sheen in a supporting role.)

Here's Cruz, Wednesday morning:

And here's the scene from the Aaron Sorkin/Michael Douglas movie:

But back on Trump's latest Twitter rampage. In addition to attacking his arch-rival Ted Cruz, Trump also got the chance to go after his favorite punching bag: Jeb Bush, who just endorsed Cruz as part of the stop-Trump effort.

And against Hillary Clinton, on terrorism:

And back to Cruz and Jeb: