Trump: GOP Under Me ‘Would Be Smarter’

COOPER: “So how does the GOP differ under Donald Trump than under President Bush, than under --?”
TRUMP: “It would be smarter. It would save money. It would have balanced budgets. It would have many more products made in the United States. It would have smart trade, not free trade. I’m a free trader. The problem with free trade, and it’s a very big problem. We need smart leadership. To have free trade successfully, you have to have a really smart group of people at the top and person. We don’t have that. We have people that are grossly incompetent. We are dealing against China. I’ve made a lot of money dealing against China. I have buildings. I own the bank of America building. A big chunk of it in San Francisco. I owned 1290 Avenue of America. I got it by competing against China. I didn’t get it because of China. I competed against them. I won and I have these assets, these great assets. You know, I have told you before, I have the biggest bank in the world is a tenant of mine in Manhattan. I sell condos to the Chinese. I get along great with the Chinese. I have no problem with the Chinese. I wish we could do it. In fact, I respect China. They gotten away with murder. The single greatest theft in the history of the world what China has done for the United States. We have rebuilt China with what they have taken out of our country.”