Donald Trump only ran for president so he'd be able to charge higher speaking fees than those of Bill Clinton , says Andrew Neil .

In a wide-ranging interview with New York Magazine , the longtime British broadcaster and journalist says he first met the future US president at Rupert Murdoch's Christmas party in Aspen, Colorado in 1986, when Mr Trump told Neil —then the editor of The Sunday Times — to put him on the cover of the magazine.

He last saw the future president at Mar-a-Lago in 2015: "And I said, with full confidence, 'You're not going to run, are you? 'Cause you've got no chance of winning'", he remembers saying. "He said 'I know, but think what it'll do to my speaking fees. I'll get more than Bill Clinton!'"