Trump: Jeb Bush ‘Is a Nice Person’ but He Doesn’t Have the ‘Energy’ To Be President

STEPHANOPOULOS: “I still haven’t heard the specifics on how you’re going to do that, but I’m going to move on –“

TRUMP: “Well, you’ll hear it, George. Don’t worry about it.”

STEPHANOPOULOS: “I’m going to move on right now.”

TRUMP: “You’ll hear it.”

STEPHANOPOULOS: “Scott Walker –“

TRUMP: “It’s called good management and it’s called great people.”

STEPHANOPOULOS: “You know, you talked about Jeb Bush just a minute ago. You said he’s a low energy guy. I want to talk about an -- an article that turned out in New York magazine, Gabriel Sherman talked to a friend of yours, who says he is an informal adviser. He says you called him and warned that friend, if I’m going down, then Bush is going down with me. He’s not going to be president of the United States. Did you say to -- that and is that what you’re going to do?”

TRUMP: “No, that’s totally false. I don’t know where this comes from. I’m just hearing it for the first time. I don’t mind Jeb Bush. I think he’s a nice person. I just don’t think he has the energy — you need energy for this job. You need -- you can’t be soft. And we need -- we’re a country that’s in trouble. We owe $18 trillion. It’s going to be up to $20 trillion in a very short period of time, which is a very, very border number, when you hit over $20 trillion. And we need a person with a lot of smarts, a lot of cunning and a lot of energy. And Jeb doesn’t have that. I think he’s a very nice person. If he came president -- if he became president, good luck. It’s another Bush. It’s going to be the same old story.”

STEPHANOPOULOS: “Let me ask you –“

TRUMP: “But I have nothing against Jeb Bush. I think he’s a very nice person.”