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Trump: 'I don't even like the rich people very much'

In his latest appeal to the common man, Donald Trump regaled his Monday morning audience in Salem with evidence of his widespread popularity among blue-collar Americans.

"My weakest support is with very rich people. Isn't that funny?" Trump asked.

The multibillionaire Republican real-estate magnate's campaign trumpeted last summer that his total wealth is "in excess of TEN BILLION DOLLARS."

In New Hampshire, however, Trump cut loose.

"I don't get along that well with the rich. I don't even like the rich people very much," he admitted. "It's like a weird deal."

Trump then remarked upon his upbringing and his work in construction, professing to "know how to build a house blindfolded" and boasting of his hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., which he said is scheduled to open ahead of schedule and under budget — just up the street from the White House.