Donald Trump has boasted that he "predicted" the bombing in New York and called for police to begin racially profiling Muslims living in the United States.

In an interview in which Mr Trump made little distinction between Muslims and Islamist fundamentalists, he again called for all followers of the faith to be banned from the country, claiming that America under the leadership of Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton when she was secretary of state, "coddled" extremists.

"These are sick evil people that want to destroy this country," Mr Trump said, adding "we coddle them" and " are afraid to say anything, and to say what the problem is".