Trump to Confederate flag: You're fired!

Donald Trump spent the majority of his first news conference following last week’s presidential announcement talking up his new golf course, though he did weigh in on two key political issues up for debate.

When asked whether he supported South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s decision to call for the Confederate battle flag to be taken down from out front of the State Capitol building, Trump said he did.


“I would take it down, yes,” the billionaire real estate mogul said. “I think they should put it in a museum and respect whatever it is you have to respect.”

Then, when asked what woman he would like to see on the new $10 bill, he responded — to laughter — “My mother.”

The questions came after Trump spoke outside his Trump National Golf Club in Virginia. There, Trump reiterated his offer to let President Obama play on the course, but said he hasn’t yet heard back from the White House.

“I would say I’m probably not his favorite person in the world,” Trump said of the commander-in-chief, though he did note that he had a helicopter pad available on-site and that Obama could travel across the Potomac River to the course relatively quickly.

Trump has been in the race only a week — and has never held elective office — but polls give him a real shot at one of the 10 slots on the Republican debate stage this August. According to Fox News, the co-sponsor of the debate, the top 10 contenders will be determined according to an average of national polls — though the network hasn’t disclosed which ones.

A poll of likely New Hampshire voters released Tuesday by Suffolk University found Trump garnering 11 percent of votes, trailing only former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s 14 percent. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio both finished with support below 10 percent.

Still, a national poll of Republican primary voters released Monday by the WSJ and NBC news was far less sanguine for The Donald. Only 1 percent of respondents listed Trump as their top choice and two-thirds said that they could never imagine supporting him.