Donald Trump said he was keeping campaign intentionally lean. | Getty Trump shrugs off campaign money woes

Donald Trump’s campaign money problems aren’t problems at all, the presumptive Republican nominee said Tuesday morning.

The billionaire real estate mogul kicked off the month of June with just $1.3 million in his campaign account, a fraction of the $42 million Hillary Clinton had on hand. But that financial gulf between the two campaigns did not appear to worry Trump though during an appearance on Fox News’ “Fox and Friends” Tuesday morning.


“We want to keep it lean. I'm not looking to spend all this money. You know, I hear people spend a billion dollars. I’m saying, how do you spend a billion dollars? It's impossible. Politicians are the only ones who can spend a billion dollars,” Trump said. “Hillary Clinton will spend a billion dollars of Wall Street money and money from the Middle East. She's got a lot of money from the Middle East. She's got money from people you don't want her to have money from, but she's going to spend more than a billion dollars. I don't want to do that.”

Trump, as he boasted throughout his upstart run through the Republican primary, said he could easily infuse the campaign with his own money and continue his White House bid without the usual level of support from the GOP and its top donors.

"I can go a different route, I can just spend my own money," Trump said. "I have a lot of cash and I can do like I did with the other — just spend money on myself and go happily along, and I think I win that way. There are many people that think I do better that way, by being a little bit of the insurgent, the outsider and, you know, not working along."

Instead, the real estate mogul said he was eager to get along with the Republican Party, for which Trump said he raised $12 million over the weekend. He called both the Republican National Committee and its head, Reince Priebus, “terrific.”

Still, Trump blamed straggler Republicans not uniting behind him for some of his campaign’s financial shortfalls. While Trump spent much of last weekend on the campaign trail raising money for the GOP, the nominee said some in the party have not been returning the favor.

“We have a party that, I mean I’m having more difficulty frankly with some of the people in the party than I am with the Democrats. Because they just don’t want to come on. They will probably eventually come on. Honestly, if they don’t it’s just fine. I can win it either way,” Trump told NBC’s “Today” in another Tuesday telephone interview. “I’ve raised a lot of money, but you also have to have some help from the party.”

Clinton is using at least some of her substantial financial advantage to attack Trump, launching a robust package of TV advertisements in eight swing states across the country. On top of that, multiple fresh polls out Tuesday show Clinton ahead of Trump nationally and either leading or tied in key swing states like Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Just as he did with Clinton’s financial advantage, Trump spun Tuesday’s poll releases as a positive for him after weeks of controversy.

“I have gotten the worst three weeks of publicity I’ve ever had in my life. Really, the press is hammering me, really unfairly in many cases, not in all cases, but in many cases. Just hammering me. Nobody’s ever seen anything like it,” he said. “And the poll just came out, CNN and Pennsylvania and Ohio and I’m right there. I mean, I’m right there.”