Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Donald Trump tells The Brody File that the Tea Party loves him because he tells the truth.
“I love the Tea Party, and the Tea Party I think loves me, because I tell it like it is,” he said.
The one-on-one interview was conducted with Donald Trump in the “boardroom” at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Sarasota, Fla., Sunday evening. Trump was in town to pick up the GOP "Statesman of the Year" Award from the Sarasota Republican Party.
Watch the interview below along with a full transcription.
More of the interview can be seen on The Brody File’s national TV show this Friday at 9:30 a.m. ET on the ABC Family Channel.
David Brody: Mr. Trump, I want to ask you about the Republican Party. What is the future here exactly of the Republican Party? You’ve got the Tea Party and the GOP and the divisiveness supposedly that’s out there. What do you think of the future as it relates to the Tea Party and the Republican Party?
Donald Trump: Well, as you know, I love the Tea Party, and the Tea Party I think loves me, because I tell it like it is. I talk about our country being in decline. They don’t want to hear that. But unless you know about it, you’re not going to be able to do anything about it.
I talk about China ripping us, I talk about all of the things that’s happening with energy, we could be self sufficient in energy, we don’t need OPEC, we don’t need anything, and yet we’re not allowed to take the coal out of the ground, we’re not allowed to go after natural gases, we’re not allowed to do what we can do.
We would be in a period of wealth like this country has never seen if we were allowed to just sort of let go. Let go of regulation. I look at the regulations in this country, as a builder. You build a building, environmental impact statement, sometimes it takes 10 years before you can build. And the,n by the way, at the end of the 10 years, they say no because there’s a piece of grass that is going to be disturbed, and I’m being totally serious about that. A piece of grass is going to be disturbed, and there’s not much of it, so you have keep thousands of people out of jobs, you have to stop building housing, etc. etc..
And other countries see this and they watch this and they laugh. China, as an example, it’s a good one. They talk, they spew all kinds of crap into the air, and we’re not allowed to. We have to clean our air, clean everything, everything. But China, they take our coal, which we’re no longer allowed to use effectively, and they fuel their plants with our coal. That gives them a tremendous advantage. A tremendous advantage, then we wonder why are they making products for less money?
So they take our coal, they use our coal, they don’t clean it, they do whatever they want to do, and our countries have a hard time competing with that, they close up our mills, they close up so many different businesses in this country.
Then you have ObamaCare. So, I talk about these things. ObamaCare is a disaster for our country. And I think the Tea Party, it really resonates, and I think a lot of good American people that love this country, it also resonates with them. Even beyond the Tea Party.
Donald Trump tells The Brody File that people inside President Obama’s campaign “are vicious people” and that Mitt Romney needs to fight back hard against them.
“I would tell Mitt Romney these are not nice people, these are vicious people and you have to fight back viciously,” Trump said.
The one-on-one interview was conducted with Donald Trump in the “boardroom” at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Sarasota, Fla., Sunday evening. Trump was in town to pick up the GOP "Statesman of the Year" Award from the Sarasota Republican Party.
Watch the interview below along with a full transcription.
More of the interview can be seen on The Brody File’s national TV Show this Friday at 9:30 a.m. ET on the ABC Family Channel.
David Brody: Let me ask you about Mitt Romney, if you were in a room with Mitt Romney, and I know you have been, but from here until election day, what would be the advice that you would give Mitt Romney?
Donald Trump: Well, I think he has to just keep going the way he’s going. I would tell him one thing, though. That the other side is a nasty group of people. They were nasty to Hillary Clinton, I’ve heard from other of your brethren where they said it was the nastiest race ever run against Hillary Clinton, how she’s even in that administration is hard to believe. And she’s a wonderful woman, but what they did to her was disgraceful.
And to her husband, they called Bill Clinton a racist and when they did that I thought it was one of the nastiest things I’ve ever heard. The fact is they’re being worse between the word felon and murderer and other things.
So, I would tell Mitt Romney these are not nice people, these are vicious people and you have to fight back viciously, you cannot be politically correct. And I think the Tea Party would be happy to hear that and I think lots of other people would be happy to hear that.
They are known for fighting vicious and lying campaigns, and unless you’re going to fight back and you are going to fight fire with fire, you’re going to have a bad result. And that result will not be acceptable for this country because we are really in trouble right now as a country.
Donald Trump tells the Brody File that Mitt Romney should talk more about his faith in public.
"I really think he should. I think what he’s done is amazing, and I think the fact that he gives so much money back to his church is an amazing thing,” he said.
The one-on-one interview was conducted with Donald Trump in the “boardroom” at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Sarasota, Fla., Sunday evening. Trump was in town to pick up the GOP "Statesman of the Year" Award from the Sarasota Republican Party.
Watch the interview below along with a full transcription.
More of the interview can be seen on The Brody File’s national TV Show this Friday at 9:30 a.m. ET on the ABC Family Channel.
David Brody: Look, the mainstream media is going to run a lot of articles about Romney and his Mormon faith, and look, there’s a huge humanitarian aspect to his faith, and I’m wondering if he shouldn’t be talking about his faith more?
Donald Trump: I really think he should. I think what he’s done is amazing, and I think the fact that he gives so much money back to his church is an amazing thing, they don’t want to add that back to his taxes because frankly, people do that and they like to talk about it.
He is a wonderful man, he is a wonderful person, and he doesn’t like to talk, be braggadocios. But I would say, certainly, certainly he gives a tremendous amount, millions and millions back to his church, and I would say that I think he should talk about it, but that’s up to him.
He probably feels uncomfortable doing that. Part of that is from being such a good man, he feels uncomfortable talking about it, and there’s something very nice about that.