I love trade. I'm a free trader, 100 percent. But we [the USA] need smart people making the deals, and we don't have smart people making the deals.

I think I did a great job and a great service not only for the country, but even for the president [Barack Obama], in getting him to produce his birth certificate.

I think frankly a lot of people agree with what I'm saying.

Using the greatest business people in the world, which America has, I am going to turn our bad trade agreements into great trade agreements.

I will suspend immigration from regions comprised of radical Islamic terrorists, including the suspension of the Syrian refugee program which is taking in thousands and thousands of people that we have no idea where they come from, no idea who they are.

We have countries where, if we make a product and we send it to that country, they charge us 100 percent tax. If they make the same product and send it to us, we charge them nothing. You think that's smart? It's not.

If you look at the Middle East, it's a blow up, it's a total disaster. We have an incompetent president [Barack Obama].