The host talks up some of Trump’s achievements: he’s on course to win more votes than George W Bush did in the 2000 primary, and he’s got vice-president Joe Biden warning Democrats not to dismiss the businessman’s chances.
Stephanopoulos sat down with Trump at the airport in Ohama, Nebraska.
Trump lays out his reasoning for why Paul Ryan should support him. “This is what the people want,” he says, before touting some of the people who’ve backed him. “I’ve had so much support, I’ve had support from all the people Paul Ryan works with.”
“Even Governor Perry came out, and he was very rough, and he came out with a very beautiful statement and we came out with a magnificent statement.”
Ryan’s decision not to support the businessman – yet – hurt Trump, he says. “I was very surprised and very disappointed”.
“I think it’s a mistake,” he says. “It hurts the party.”
Stephanopoulos presses the point: you don’t think you need a unified Republican party?
“I actually don’t think so. I think it would be better if it were unified, I think there would be something good about it but I don’t think it actually has to be unified in a traditional sense.”
He starts rambling about how he wants trade but not such free trade. “I don’t want to be an isolationist,” he says, rattling off a number of Asian countries that he finds objectionable. “They’re just absolutely eating our lunch.” He insists he won’t give up his own principles.
Stephanopoulos changes topic, turning to the Democrats’ likely nominee, Hillary Clinton. “She’s playing the woman card so much, and so loud,” Trump says. “She’s gonna get hit for it and it’s not appropriate.”
On Friday Trump told a rally: “I mean all of the men, we’re petrified to speak to women anymore, we may raise our voice. You know what, the women get it better than we do, folks.”
“Look, we’re living in the real world. This political correctness is killing our country.”
In the interview, he doesn’t back down from those comments. He instead says it’s fair to criticize Bill Clinton because the former president is on the campaign trail supporting his wife. He called him “one of the great abusers of the world”.
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