Donald Trump Calls Bush "Evil" & "Incompetent;" Predicts President-Elect Will Be "Great"
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Donald Trump sounds off on the presidential race and much more in an exclusive interview with NY1 Political anchor Dominic Carter.
In the first of a two-part interview scheduled to air tonight on “Inside City Hall,” the real estate and media mogul says, “I don’t think any Republican could have won.”
Trump, who endorsed Republican Sen. John McCain for president, added, “McCain, really, that was almost an impossible situation. Bush has been so bad, maybe the worst president in the history of this country. He has been so incompetent, so bad, so evil that I don't think any Republican could have won. Bring back Dwight Eisenhower maybe. [McCain] really had an uphill fight."
Trump certainly had harsh words for President George W. Bush, but he reserved his highest praise for President-elect Barack Obama, and said he never expected to see an African-American elected president in his lifetime.
"I think he has a chance to go down as a great president. Now, if he's not a great president, this country is in serious trouble,” Trump said. “Since 1929, we have not gone through what we're going through right now so he doesn't really have a choice but to be a great president. And by the way, if he's not a great president, we're in serious trouble."
But, of course, no interview with Donald Trump would be complete without ripping the competition.
"I'm in many, many rappers songs. And I know them. 50 Cent is sort of a friend of mine. I mean, he likes me. He just did a show. It was a copy of ‘The Apprentice.’ It will fail because he's not Trump, but he's actually a nice guy. And P. Diddy did a show which, by the way, I think bombed, but it was a copy. I wrote him a little note, ‘Good luck with the copy.’”
Watch a portion of the interview above. Or see the interview in its entirety on “Inside City Hall” tonight at 7 and 10 p.m.
Tune into “Inside City Hall” tomorrow for Part Two of Dominic Carter’s exclusive interview. In it, Trump calls the Freedom Tower a “white elephant,” and predicts it will be a “catastrophe” to the New York real estate market.
“Can you add 10-million square feet and more than that to Lower Manhattan at a time when office space … it’s all over the place,” Trump says. He’ll also sounds-off on term limits, and the political futures of Senator Hillary Clinton and Governor David Paterson.