I want plants built and I want factories built and I want the jobs. I don't want the jobs going to other countries.

I have great respect for the news and great respect for freedom of the press and all of that.

Our politicians are stupid.And the Mexican government is much smarter, much sharper, much more cunning. And they send the bad ones over because they don't want to pay for them. They don't want to take care of them.

I will say this, I will rely on [Mike ] Pompeo and [James] Mattis and my group.

I really believe that fact that I have such power in terms of numbers with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, et cetera, I think it helped me win all of these races where others spending much more money than I spent. You know, I spent my money. A lot of my money. And I won. I think that social media has more power than the money others spent, and I think maybe to a certain extent, I proved that.

The best thing we can do politically speaking is let Obamacare explode.

In Chicago, which has the toughest gun laws in the United States, probably you could say by far, they have more gun violence than any other city. So we have the toughest laws, and you have tremendous gun violence.