Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have traded harsh invective for months. | AP Photo Clinton hopes she can be friendly with Trump again

Hillary Clinton said she's willing to bury the hatchet with Donald Trump after a campaign season filled with vicious rhetoric and personal attacks.

“Well, I would hope so,” Clinton said Tuesday morning when asked if she could be friendly with Trump again. “I have to confess, I — and I think you could talk to a lot of people in New York who also knew him. We just have been surprised by a lot of what he has said and the kind of things that he’s done in this campaign or that we’ve learned about.”


Clinton and Trump have traded harsh invective for months. Clinton has called him “temperamentally unfit” for the presidency and mocked him for losing money in the casino business. Trump has called Clinton the most corrupt candidate to ever seek the presidency and threatened to jail her, if elected.

Asked to say something nice about each other at the second presidential debate last month, Clinton said, “I respect his children.” For his part, Trump praised Clinton’s toughness, calling her “a fighter” who “doesn’t quit” and “doesn’t give up.”

After the final presidential debate, both candidates attended the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner. According to its host, the two also had nice things to say to each other privately. Cardinal Timothy Dolan recalled Trump telling Clinton she’s “tough and talented,” and Clinton telling Trump that “whatever happens, we need to work together afterwards.”

Clinton broached her daughter’s friendship with Trump’s daughter as she explained her goal to unify the nation.

“My daughter is a good friend of his daughter, and I hope that when it’s over, all of America comes together,” Clinton said.

Chelsea Clinton said Monday that she’ll “absolutely talk to [Ivanka Trump] after Election Day.”

“Our friendship started before politics, so it will last beyond politics,” she said.