FT: Mr. President, you use a language which is more abrasive than many of your predecessors ...

TRUMP: I would say. I hope so. …

FT: Are you proud of that?

TRUMP: Well it hasn’t worked for our predecessors. Look where we are. We have an $800 billion trade deficit. The Middle East is a mess. They shouldn’t have gone in. And I was totally opposed to the war in the Middle East which I think finally has been proven, people tried very hard to say I wasn’t but you’ve seen that it is now improving.