Trump: Jeb ‘Is a Low Energy Person, There’s No Question About It’

‘I think we need much more than a low energy person right now to put this country back in shape’

SCARBOROUGH: “Let me ask you about Jeb Bush. It looks right now, like in every poll, it looks like it's coming down to you and Jeb Bush or in some polls maybe Ben Carson. And you keep talking about Jeb Bush as being a ‘low energy candidate’. Are you doing that just to provoke him or do you really think that fact that you say he is a ’low energy’ would prevent him from being an effective president?… If Jeb Bush came to you and he wasn’t a politician, and asked you for a job, would you give him one?” 
TRUMP: “Well, I don't want to be nasty and I don't want to say that. But I will tell you that if you look at the polls, he's not really second anymore. He's fourth and fifth in a lot of the polls. And I have -- I've always assumed that he was going to be a primary competitor. I guess that's why I'm hitting him harder than others. I like him. He's a nice person. He is a low energy person. There's no question about it. And, you know, I think we need much more than a low energy person right now to put this country back in shape. We need tremendous energy and tremendous smarts and tremendous cunning and all of the things that other countries have. You look at what the Mexican leaders are doing to us. You look at what China's leaders are doing to us. And Japan's leaders, Abe, he's brutal what he's doing to us. He's really – Japan’s really stepped up their game, by the way, in case anyone isn't noticing. But, you know, we need a person with tremendous drive and tremendous smarts.”

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