Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton weighed in after Britons voted to leave the European Union.

There's a parallel between Brexit and the current U.S. political climate, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee said Friday morning from Scotland. Focusing on nationalist sentiments, Trump's comments come just hours after results from the British referendum showed that the leave camp had won, sending markets into a panic across the globe.

"I think I see a big parallel," Trump said in response to a question about his own political movement. "People want to take their country back, and they want to have independence in a sense."

Trump's comments stand in stark comparison to those of his likely competitor in the general election. Clinton focused on the need to remain united and supportive in a climate of uncertainty.

"It also underscores the need for us to pull together to solve our challenges as a country, not tear each other down," the presumptive Democratic nominee said.

Trump said, however, that the British referendum is only the beginning and that people in general want more defined borders.

"You're going to have many other cases where they want to take their borders back, they want to take their monetary back, they want to take a lot of things back — they want to be able to have a country again," Trump said. "So I think you're going to have this happen more and more, and I really believe that, and I think it's happening in the United States."