Trump: Obama was 'sincere' when he cried about gun victims

In a rare concession to Barack Obama, Donald Trump said he believes the president "means well" by taking on gun violence and that he doesn't think the president wasn't faking his tears at Tuesday's White House announcement.

"Well, I actually think he was sincere. I'll probably go down 5 points in the polls by saying that," Trump said in a telephone interview on Wednesday with "Fox and Friends," in which he discussed the president's executive action announcement the previous day in which he choked up over discussing the deaths of 20 first-graders and six staff members in the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School.


"I mean, I think it's a thing that he feels — you know, I think that he's incorrect about it. They're just taking chunks and chunks out of the Second Amendment. But you know, I think he probably means well. The concept is wrong," Trump said, reiterating his call for more mental health care institutions in the U.S. "People need protection. They have to have protection. It's a very serious issue."

On the other hand, Trump said, Hillary Clinton is worse on the Second Amendment than the man she is running to succeed.

"Hillary Clinton is, I think, worse than Obama on the issue, frankly," he said. "She wants to take everyone’s gun away.”