HAMPTON, N.H. — The war of words between Mayor Marty Walsh and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump escalated Friday night.

During a press conference before a nighttime rally here in Hampton, N.H., Trump lit into Walsh after a reporter asked if he’d accept Walsh’s challenge to participate in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.

“He's a clown, Marty Walsh. I don't even know who he is. This guy, he spends all this time and effort and money on an Olympic Bid, and then he goes out and he's talking about ice bucket challenges,” Trump said. “Get a real mayor.”

The feud began almost as soon as Trump announced his candidacy. During the first speech of his campaign, Trump said many undocumented Mexican immigrants are rapists — a comment he has double down on since, including at Friday’s rally.

Asked about the comments, Walsh told the Boston Herald they were “inappropriate.” Then, he went a step further.

“If he wanted to build a hotel here, he’d have to make some apologies to people in this country,” Walsh said.

That set off a back-and-forth between mayor and candidate, with Trump demanding an apology and Tweeting out criticism of the way Walsh handled Boston’s 2024 Olympic bid.

Trump’s most recent comments came before he address an enthusiastic crowd of over 1,600 at Winnacunnet High School in Hampton, N.H. on Friday night.

If Walsh meant his ice bucket challenge as an olive branch, Trump obviously didn’t take it. Nor did he have kind words for Governor Charlie Baker, who recently criticized Trump's controversial comments about women.

“Governor Baker should only dream about doing for women what I have done, and what I will do,” Trump told reporters Friday, after touting the number of women he said he has placed in executive positions in the Trump Organization.

Despite all the questions Trump received about the Commonwealth, his answer to a question about Russia may have best illustrated how he feels about certain Massachusetts politicians.

“I think I'd get along very well with Putin. And I think I'd get along with the leaders of the word very well — many of them, not all of them,” Trump explained. “The ones I don't get along with, their gonna' have to pay.”