Real estate mogul Donald Trump plans to whine his way right into the White House.
While some have complained about Trump’s meltdown after Fox News personality Megyn Kelly asked him about his history of belittling women, the billionaire businessman says it’s a tactic he will embrace up until election day.
“I do whine because I want to win and I’m not happy about not winning and I am a whiner and I keep whining and whining until I win,” Trump said Tuesday on CNN’s “New Day.”
The divisive GOP candidate defended himself to host Chris Cuomo after being asked about a recent National Review column that criticized his post-debate behavior.
“By Trump’s own account, he’s the baddest, smartest thing going, except if you ask him a challenging question, in which case he kicks and screams and demands to know how anyone could treat him so unfairly,” wrote National Review’s Rich Lowry.
“I think he’s probably right,” Trump told Cuomo in reference to Lowry describing him as the “the most fabulous whiner in all of American politics.”
Cuomo pushed back, arguing that being a whiner could create issues for a President Trump whose duties would include cooperating with Congress and frequent meetings with no-nonsense world leaders like Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“Chris, I’ve been better at working with government …,” Trump said, adding, “I’m worth more than $10 billion. I’ve been working with government all my life — that’s what I do.”
In addition to launching an attack against Kelly, Trump’s GOP rivals have criticized him for maintaining close ties to former President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary, the presumed Democratic nominee, and for failing to deliver detailed policy prescriptions during the first primary debate.
Nevertheless, Trump continued to make headway in the polls. Public Policy Polling released a new poll Monday showing Trump as having taken the lead in Iowa, the first caucuses, with 19 percent of the vote.
