“Five, 10 years from now — different party. You’re going to have a worker’s party," Donald Trump said when asked about the future of the GOP. | AP Photo Trump: GOP will become 'worker's party' under me

Under a President Donald Trump, the Republican Party would become a different one, a broad, populist coalition focused on workers who have gone too long without a raise and on social programs the party establishment has long seen as anathema to its long-term success.

“Love the question,” Trump said in response to a question from Bloomberg Businessweek's Joshua Green in a profile of Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus published Thursday. The article bears the headline, "How to Get Trump Elected When He’s Wrecking Everything You Built."


“Five, 10 years from now — different party. You’re going to have a worker’s party," Trump said in the May 17 interview. "A party of people that haven’t had a real wage increase in 18 years, that are angry."

Trump reiterated that cutting Social Security would be a "big mistake" for the GOP, remarking that "[c]utting it the wrong way is a big mistake, and even cutting it [at all]."

The presumptive nominee's views would not appear to have come about through intense retrospection. “My views are what everybody else’s views are. When I give speeches, sometimes I’ll sign autographs and I’ll get to talk to people and learn a lot about the party," he said, admitting that he had not closely followed past Republican efforts to reform the immigration system.

“When I made my [announcement] speech at Trump Tower, the June 16 speech,” Trump said, “I didn’t know about the Gang of Eight. … I just knew instinctively that our borders are a mess.”

Despite having issued numerous threats to the party about what he suggested would be a "steal" of his nomination, Trump praised the RNC chairman profusely.

"I call Reince Mr. Switzerland,” Trump said. “He’s doing a great job as peacemaker.”