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

The people of this country who want their laws enforced and respected, and respected by all, and who want their border secured, are not racists.

We will rise above the lies, the smears, the ludicrous slanders from ludicrous and very, very dishonest reporters.

I fire people that win gold medals, great champions, everything else, and, you know, it's not - it's not easy. People say oh well it comes easy for me, it doesn't. And it's never fun. It's all to easier though when I don't like somebody or when they're really, really bad then it becomes much easier.

Having said that, I`ve got to tell you, looking ahead, it`s like these storms coming in over the pacific that`s we feel in the press corps.Because you look at a campaign, which was a war on the media - that was at the heart of Donald Trump`s campaign, where if he banned certain outlets from coming to news conferences, every day he attacked the dishonest press, he pointed the finger, he called out reporter by name and attacked him.

I have a temperament where I know how to win.

My father didn't want to go to Manhattan for me, and I came to Manhattan and I have done a great job in Manhattan. And then I wrote a best-seller and I wrote numerous best-sellers.