Trump says he’s been ‘a little bit divisive’ in GOP race
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This photo provided by ABC shows guest Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump, left, with host Jimmy Kimmel, on Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight in Los Angeles.
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This photo provided by ABC shows guest Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump, left, with host Jimmy Kimmel, on Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight in Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES >> One day after a debate clash with Jeb Bush, Donald Trump said he’s been “a little bit divisive” and wants to see Republicans come together.
In an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show Wednesday, the GOP presidential candidate looked relaxed as Kimmel queried him about campaign issues.
Trump, who has argued for temporarily banning Muslims from entering the United States, said he’s gotten calls of thanks from friends who are Muslim.
“Those may have been crank calls,” Kimmel replied, smiling.
The ABC host then turned to immigration, using the example of his on-air sidekick, Guillermo Rodriguez, to question Trump’s call for mass deportation.
Kimmel said Rodriguez came to the United States illegally from Mexico but went through the legalization process. He suggested to Trump that people who are willing to risk everything to get to the United States are good for the country.
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Trump was unfazed, calling Hispanics “unbelievable people” but not backtracking on his position. He called for a Mexico-U.S. border wall with “a big beautiful door” for legal entry.
Kimmel said it appeared Trump had made an effort to be nicer to his fellow candidates in the debate, including lauding Sen. Ted Cruz’s temperament after previously calling him a something of a “maniac.”
“I would like to see the Republican party come together, and I’ve been a little bit divisive in the sense of hitting people hard,” Trump replied.
That didn’t stop him from repeating his characterization of Jeb Bush as low-energy, although he added he was a “nice person.”
Bush, well behind front-runner Trump in national polls, said during the debate that the billionaire couldn’t insult his way to the presidency and called him a “chaos candidate.”
Kimmel ended the interview by sharing a mock children’s book, in the style of Dr. Seuss, which he said he’d ghost-written for Trump.
“Here are some frogs I do not like at all. We must kick these frogs out and then build a wall,” Kimmel read from one page.
Trump had canceled a previously scheduled appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” but Kimmel didn’t make an issue of being stood up.
9 responses to “Trump says he’s been ‘a little bit divisive’ in GOP race”
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Divisive? Angry? Upset? You can’t be emotional when you are the President Of The United States Of America.
Republicans are a plague on America. None of their candidates are acceptable. Clearly we all vote for Hillary just to protect ourselves from disaster.
Trump’s craziest statement in the debate: Bush let the wives and girlfriends of the 9/11 terrorists leave the US and fly to Saudi Arabia before 9/11 so they could watch it on television. Really! He said that! Second place in the crazy-things-Trump-says sweepstakes was the claim that tens of thousand of terrorists are crossing our borders with ISIS flags on their cellphones. But what’s truly crazy is that these statements are made by the leading Republican candidate!
You’re right. That comment was remarkable, even by Trump’s low standard.
And the media gives him a pass on it.
The media is capitalizing on any news that will draw in the viewer ship.
His comments are true. Like it or not.
mxp2000. An idiot will always think that he is right.
Somewhere there’s a circus missing their clown.