Trump: It Was a ‘Great Honor’ Obama and Nikki Haley Called Me ‘Angry’
TAPPER: "I have never, before seen, and I don’t think it has ever happened, that there has been a State of the Union address in which a candidate, you, were, was implicitly criticized, and then a response from the other party in which the same candidate, you, was implicitly criticized. It really was historic. What was it like to watch?"
TRUMP: "My great honor. It was my great honor. Because I’m angry. And they both said I was angry. And I get along very well with Nikki, you know Nikki said, we’re friends. And we are friends. I supported her. But, I am angry. And when she said there’s an anger that we shouldn’t have. I said, well, I disagree with one thing. There’s an anger that we should have. Our country is going to hell. Whether it’s ISIS, and we can’t beat them, our military is really in bad shape, it’s not prepared, it’s not, you know, it’s got a lot of problems, and I guess monetary problems and other problems. But, when General Odierno (ph) left, he said it’s the least prepared that he’s ever seen it, and he went a lot further than that because he went back a long way before his term. I would say this, people have to be very angry. And the reason I have these massive rallies where we had the other night, 15,000 people, and 7,000 people couldn’t get in to the arena, you saw that, I mean, it was everybody was there. But I have many of them. People can’t (ph) — we’re only judged by the size of the arena. These people are angry. And these are good people. These are great people. They aren’t angry people, but they’re angry at the way our country is run. You see the 10 wonderful sailors where they’re on their knees with a gun to their head and their hands up in the air, and you see that with Iran, and they’re only giving them back because they want their $150 billion...|
TAPPER: "Right."
TRUMP: "... that’s due in two days. I think it’s disgraceful what’s happening in the country. Whether it’s health care, whether it’s the way we treat our vets, which is terribly. Whether it’s the borders which are like a leaking sieve (ph). And people are angry —"[crosstalk]
TAPPER: "Do you take the insults or the — how everyone interpret it, from President Obama and from Governor Haley — take it as a badge of honor?"
TRUMP: "I take as the truth. They said I was angry. They said that the people that are with me are angry, and you will see, I mean you’re going to see the people voting. They’re going to be voting soon. You’re going to see what’s happening. People are angry. And you know, they’re really angry at incompetence. We have people that are grossly incompetent running our country. Every country is eating our lunch. China on trade, Japan on trade, Mexico on trade, and at the border. Everybody’s beating us. We don’t win anymore. And people are tired of it."
