Trump: My Wife Told Me if I Announce, I Am Going to Win
CUOMO: “The family, your kids do great, everybody says you raise them well. They’re making their own paths. Have thought about what it will mean for your kids because, you know, it’s a lot of — even being Trump’s is something.”
TRUMP: “Well, for my family general and I mean –“
CUOMO: “But do you think about, ‘Man, this is going to be a lot on them.’”
TRUMP: “It’s a tough -- I sat down with them, I told them I said, ‘You know, I don’t know this is months ago, and, you know –“
CUOMO: “But now you’re in a very good for place.”
TRUMP: “-- and my wife said something very interesting, she’s my pollster, OK. She said, ‘You know, if you actually announce you’re going to win’, I said what? She said I see the reaction –“
CUOMO: “And the support of partner by the way.”
TRUMP: “No, no it’s great. She’s either the most wonderful person or she’s very smart to say that, but she said, “You know that if you actually announce because nobody thinks you’re going to run, but if you act -- and that’s truly what happen once I announce, people said -- then they said when will the file this paper and then that paper, then will he file his financial and then the financial turn up to be much to be much bigger than anyone thought, you know, I wouldn’t file the financial, I will — I’m very proud I mean what I did I build an unbelievable company. But she’s said to me, ‘Do you know that if you actually announce, you know, you’re going to win?’ I said, ‘I don’t know that,’ but the response has been pretty amazing.”
CUOMO: “But what do you -- do you think about that to like -- you said your wife is she going to campaign for you, is she –“
TRUMP: “Yes.”
CUOMO: “-- ready to be first lady?”
TRUMP: “Sure.”
CUOMO: “She’s been quiet on this so far –“
TRUMP: “She has been and purposely and, and, you know, I haven’t asked her to do anything and she would certainly like to -- Ivanka, you know, very well a lot of respect for you –“
CUOMO: “Ivanka should be president.”
TRUMP: “-- she’s got a lot -- she could be president and she be great. She got a lot of respect to you, she had a lot of respect to your brother, tremendous respect to your brother –“
CUOMO: “So of course her judgments unquestionable. She’s half right on that.”
TRUMP: “I think the [indecipherable], now I’m starting to worry about her. She will be fantastic –“
CUOMO: “Well, you think you’ll put Melania out there, you put your kids out there?”
TRUMP: “-- boys will campaign. They want to be out there. They believe in what I’m saying, and I will say, from women’s health issues standpoint, Melania is unbelievable.”
CUOMO: “She would want to own something like that?”
TRUMP: “And Ivanka. I think she want to be involved and that she feels very strongly, very fit. That’s why when she saw Bush the other day knocking it, it really bothered her that could happen.”
