Trump: ‘The State of Our Union Is a Mess’

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
TODD: “Final question because I know you’ve got the rally —“
TRUMP: “I’m going to use them much better and they’ll serve a much better purpose than what he’s done.” 
TODD: “On Tuesday we’ll hear the president say the state of our union is in some words strong, vibrant, all this stuff. What would you say? One year from now it could be you giving this speech to Congress, a version of it, we don’t call it state of the union in the first one, but a joint session speech. How would you describe the state of the union right now?”
TRUMP: “Now more to a couple years?”
TODD: “Now or in a year.”
TRUMP: “Now it’s a mess. 
TODD: “You’d go up and there and say ‘The state of our union is a mess.’” 
TRUMP: “I wouldn’t say that. You’re asking me for an opinion. Obama is going to say what he will say. But I think right now the state of our union is a mess. We can’t beat ISIS, our military is falling back, it’s not being properly taken care of, our vets aren’t being properly taken care of, Obamacare as you know is going to fail very soon and probably in ‘17. We don’t have borders, we don’t have anything. If I theme in two years and making a speech I say we’re getting better fast.”
TODD: “In that first speech to Congress you’re going to lay out your first 100 days agenda. What are the four issues?”
TRUMP: “I want to build our military bigger and better and stronger.” 
TODD: “Number one. 
TRUMP: “I want to take care of our veterans. I want to take care of. They’re being taken care of horribly. I want to fix our health care system. I want to create borders so we have a country. Right now we don’t a country. We have borders where people walk across and do whatever they want to do and they have babies and the babies become citizens and we have to take care of them. We deal many, many things and make America great again. That’s what I want to do.”
TODD: “A bunch of billionaires around the world, Zuckerberg, they want to give away more than half of their wealth at some point to philanthropic projects. Carl Icahn is the guy who signed on to this.”
TRUMP: “He endorsed me.”
TODD: “I’m sure people have asked you to sign this giving pledge.”
TRUMP: “They have asked me.” 
TODD: “Why haven’t you done it?  
TRUMP: “I’m old-fashioned. I have wonderful children doing a wonderful job and I believe in that and we employ thousands and thousands of people and I like the concept of keeping the company going as opposed to selling everything and giving it away. So right now I mean — perhaps I shouldn’t be saying this but I’m of the old school. I’d like to see my children take this great company that I’ve built — and it is a great company — and I’d like to see it go on for a long time creating jobs, lots of money, pay lots of taxes, give lots of money away. I’d make lots of big contributions. I like that better.” 
TODD: “Mr. Trump, until we meet again.” 
TRUMP: “Thank you.”