Trump: I Won’t Change What I Say Even If Terrorists Use My Words To Recruit

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Veterans Memorial Building, Saturday, Dec. 19, 2015, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said in an interview aired Sunday that he wouldn’t change what he’s saying — even if terrorists featured him in recruitment videos — because his words “represent toughness and strength.”

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had said at the Democratic presidential debate that Trump had become “ISIS’ best recruiter” and was featured in the organization’s recruitment videos.

Politifact later ruled that there was “no evidence” to support Clinton’s statement, which Trump noted in his interview with NBC News’ “Meet the Press.”

“She lies like crazy about everything, whether it’s trips where she was being gunned down in a helicopter or an airplane, she’s a liar and everybody knows that,” Trump said. “But she just made this up in thin air.”

Host Chuck Todd asked Trump if he would change his language if he knew his words were being used in recruitment videos.

“No, because I think that my words represent toughness and strength,” Trump said. “Hillary’s not strong, Hillary’s weak, frankly.”

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  1. Trump won’t change what he says regardless of how destructive it is.
    This guy is getting to be more and more like my in-laws every day.

  2. Tell Trump some crucial information and what does he do? Just like any good GOPer, he doubles down on “Don’t matter! I am right!”

  3. Avatar for mcbain mcbain says:

    Trump says it shows “toughness and strength”

    It actually shows extreme ignorance and a complete disregard for safety. Trump is saying he would rather create more terrorists and sound tough than have fewer terrorists and not sound tough. What kind of immature idiot thinks like that? Who thinks tough talk actually solves problems?

  4. Avatar for mantan mantan says:

    Another disgraceful morning of Sunday show phoners with America’s Mussolini on the half shell.
    I just can’t imagine, Walter Cronkite, David Brinkley or even Phil Donahue, all from the pre deregulation TV period, would have just sat quietly as a jibbering fool drooled into their network microphone.

  5. I played “Trump Turnberry” this past summer. It was hilarious to see the Scottish employees at the golf course laughing their asses off at The Donald and his pretentious stupidity.

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