Trump on Oprah: ‘Once I Went into Politics, Our Relationship Changed, I Just Want to Make Our Country Great’

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TRUMP: "Well, I haven't changed. My views haven't changed very much. I think I have been pretty consistent over the years. We want security, we want a great country, we want a strong military, we want borders and we want good elections and education and housing and everything. I certainly have not changed very much. I think that thing that changed is I ran for office. She actually says in one of her letters, I think somewhat kiddingly, 'We should run together, what a team we'd be.' And I put that letter in the book. Look, I get along great with her. She was here many times. In fact, Roger King, the great Roger King, King World, she asked whether or not we could have his funeral here. That was probably one of the most important -- maybe the most important, but one of the most important people in her life. He was a fantastic man. He did an incredible job. A real character. He was a friend of mine also. We had his funeral here, it was held by Oprah. And she said, 'I just saw the most incredible place in the world called Mar-a-Lago. We have to have the funeral there.' You know, we don’t do funerals, but we did one in that case and it was amazing. Now, I had a great relationship with Oprah, a great relationship with almost everybody. But once I went into politics -- and I don’t mean I said something offensive. Literally, once I went in, it was -- it changed. And that was okay, because I just want to make our country great. You know, if they like me and then they don’t like me, that does not bother me. I want to make our country great. But it is incredible when you look at the difference between those letters and now. Now, in some cases people like me better. I will tell you the public probably likes me better, because we have tremendous support.”