Trump: I Have More Foreign Policy Experience Than ‘Virtually Anybody’

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, Sunday, May 1, 2016, in Fort Wayne, Ind. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump argued Monday that he had more foreign policy experience than “virtually anybody” seeking the presidency in response to a couple jokes President Obama made at Trump’s expense.

Obama took a few jabs at the GOP frontrunner at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner this weekend, joking that Trump would be good at foreign policy because he had met with “Miss Sweden” and “Miss Argentina.” Trump himself opted to not attend the dinner, but his children did go.

“Right now, we have hundreds of deals being negotiated all over the world by my company, and I deal with presidents, and I deal with prime ministers. I deal with everybody,” Trump said on CNN. “I probably have more experience than virtually anybody looking at this office. And I make money. I’ve made a lot of money doing it.”

Trump said Sunday that Obama’s jokes were “fine” and that the President “did a nice job” at his last correspondents’ dinner.

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  1. Trump is a virtual person (appearing to be 3 dimensional, even though you know there is no depth), and among that small universe, he does have the most experience.

  2. “(Trump) has more foreign policy experience than anybody”

    No question. He even looked up Kenya’s and Hawaii’s whereabouts on a map once.

  3. ROFLMAO

    Why not say you are a better Space Shuttle pilot than anyone?

    Has as much credibility.

  4. I have no doubt that he would, if anyone happened to ask him.

  5. I cannot speak French. But I can speak English with a French accent, which is nearly as good.

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