Donald Trump Donald John TrumpBubba Wallace to be driver of Michael Jordan, Denny Hamlin NASCAR team Graham: GOP will confirm Trump's Supreme Court nominee before the election Southwest Airlines, unions call for six-month extension of government aid MORE this week railed against allowing Syrian refugees to settle in Detroit as a way of rebuilding the city, calling it "unfair to the people that are living there."

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“I think it’s crazy,” Trump told Breitbart of the idea, floated by former President Bill Clinton William (Bill) Jefferson ClintonGOP brushes back charges of hypocrisy in Supreme Court fight Battle lines drawn on precedent in Supreme Court fight Sunday shows - Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death dominates MORE in February. “I mean, these people are getting started — I think it’s a very, very hard place to get your start.

“We shouldn’t have them in the country,” Trump added, referring to Syrian refugees. “We don’t know who these people are. We have no idea. This could be the all time great Trojan horse. We have no idea who they are.”

The GOP presidential nominee then laid out his plan to handle the fighting in Syria.

“The whole thing is ridiculous. Number one: we should build safe zones over in Syria, that’s what we should have, and we should have the Gulf states fund them. It’s just crazy. We ought to be building safe zones in Syria and not taking these people in — whether it’s Detroit or anywhere else.”

The interview, conducted on Thursday, was published Saturday as Trump was visiting a black church in Detroit.