Donald Trump thinks he deserves “an A” for his performance in the Republican presidential debates Thursday.
When asked by “Fox and Friends” Friday what marks he thought he deserved for the debate, Trump responded:
“Well if I go by Drudge, which is a great group of people or if I go by Time magazine, I have to give myself an A. Or if I go by the New York Times — the front page of the New York Times — I have to give myself an A,” Trump said, according to Talking Points Memo.
“I was happy with the performance,” he said.
Trump wasn’t happy with the questions the Fox News hosts had asked him, however. He complained that the debate’s first question, on whether any candidate would run third party, “was just aimed at me, which I didn’t think was appropriate.”
During the debate, Fox host Bret Baier asked candidates to raise their hands if they would consider running third party – only Trump raised his hand.
Megyn Kelly then “hit me with a very, very hard question” on Trump’s previous derogatory remarks about women.
“You’ve called women you don’t like, ‘fat pigs,’ ‘dogs,’ slobs, and disgusting animals,” Kelly said to Trump.
“That’s when I came up with Rosie O’Donnell’s name, which really got a tremendous amount of applause. That was the biggest applause of the evening, actually, so it was sort of interesting,” Trump retold Friday.
During the debate, Kelly rebutted Trump’s assertion that he’d only made the remarks about O’ Donnell, saying: “For the record, it was well beyond Rosie O’Donnell” but Trump’s one-liner had already drawn laughter and applause.
Of the overall questions he had received, Trump said, “I don’t want to use the word unfair, but I thought it was a little bit tough.”
“If you look at Drudge, if you look at Time magazine, if you look at the New York Times, I guess I must have handled it well ’cause they all said I was easily the winner,” said Trump. “But, you know, it was a little bit of a surprise to be standing up there having to justify everything. Your shoes haven’t even become warm and you’re having to justify everything!”
