Man. Hes back. Recharging the batteries and zapping his rival. Its lyin lyin ted. Thats not all hes spelling out. Its a fix. Blasting the whole delegate ball game. Its a crooked, crooked system. So now that hes facing a contest at the convention in cleveland, not a coronation, can his campaign adapt . And will the family name give that campaign the boost it needs . Ive got so many family members here today. Look at that. Boy, oh boy. My sons and my daughter. Did ivanka do a good job . This is an Anderson Cooper 360 cnn republican town hall. Candidates and their families. Voters seeking answers before making a choice that could make history. National sirius Xm Satellite Radio channel 116 and the westwood 1 radio network, welcome to all of you. We are here with donald trump, his wife, melania, daughters ivanka and tiffany, and sons eric and donald jr. Will be joining us shortly. In the audience tonight, republicans all from new york. They came up with the questions theyll ask tonight. We reviewed them to make sure they dont overlap. Im going to ask the candidate a few questions, myself, as well. This is a chance for voters to hear at length from the candidates and the first time the people closest to them. Before i bring out the family, i want to start with donald trump. Thanks very much for being with us. Thank you. Big day for you. Got very good news. You were certified today the winner of the missouri primary. Picked up another 12 delegates. Great polling numbers for you. New york 1 Brook College poll, 60 in new york, way ahead of all the other candidates and even the quinnipiac poll had you around 55 . Great. Way ahead. You got some good news. Youve been very critical of what happened in colorado. I want to reads out only of the things you said. You said the nominating system in colorado is, quote, rigged, disgusting, and dirty. You called it a corrupt deal full of crooked shenanigans. Ted cruz is saying youre just being a whiner. The bottom line is the rules are the rules. Didnt you just get outplayed on the ground . No. I dont think so. Look, first of all, you and i watched ted cruz and i watched him very strongly say, well, hes been winning, but, you know, ive won 22 states and hes won 10 and were really way up in votes, you know, in terms of the voters which to me is very important but its never talked. Im millions of votes ahead of him, and as you know, im hundreds of delegates ahead of him but the colorado thing was very, very unfair and i thought louisiana was very unfair. I won louisiana. I won it easily. The popular vote. He got the popular vote. Because of all his shenanigans that goes on. You call them shenanigans. Those are the rules. I know the rules very well, but i know that its stacked against me by the establishment. I fully understand it. We had people out there and they werent hurt. Then, in fact, today when it was announced the numbers were announced, they put out something on twitter saying, oh, we stopped trump, essentially, we stopped trump. That was put out by the party in colorado. The point is it was stacked against us. Now but you weve won our share. You could have had a Better Organization on the ground. A lot of the folks i dont know if it would have mattered because it was totally set in stone and thats the way it was. You saw republicans that wanted to go and wanted to be Trump Delegates and theyre burning their card on the internet. A lot of time, a lot of organization, going out, reaching out to people who wanted to be delegates to run in the process. I mean, it was a whole electoral process to get delegates. Anderson, we had delegates there, a lot of delegates and they were not heard because the Republican Party out there was 100 probably controlled by the rnc which maybe doesnt like this happening because im a selffunder, im putting up my own money. They dont like when i put up my own money because it means they dont have any control of me because im working for the people. Im doing for the people. And, you know, when you talk about winning, ive won most of it and im not complaining. Frankly, there are couple that i won that hes complaining about. I won you know, ive been winning far more than anybody else. You talk about the rnc, reince priebus, head of the rnc tweeted yesterday, said the rules were set last year. Nothing mysterious. Nothing new. The rules have not changed. The rules are the change. Nothing different. Anderson, they changed the rules a number of months ago. The people in about eight months ago. Well, its not very long ago. You had a lot of time to prepare they saw how i was doing and they didnt like it. Same thing in florida. Now, i won florida in a land slide, right . But they changed the rules so that the winner gets all because they thought jeb bush wases going to win. Hes the former governor, of marco rubio was going to win. Then all of a sudden the first poll came out and trump was leading by a lot and said, what are we going to do, what are we going to do . Because that was done so i wouldnt get any delegates. Then i won in a landslide and i got all the delegates. Sometimes it works to my advantage. But colorado is unfortunate because they disenfranchised the voters. They disenfranchised all of these voters youre saying you dont think the rnc wants you to get the nomination . No, i dont think so. I really dont. You think theyre actively working against you . I dont see it. Its not like i have 15 miles of proof but certainly they should want to have a vote of the people of colorado. The people of colorado i would have won. I won so many of the votes. I mean, the voting has been phenomenal. Thats why ive won so many more states than ted cruz and kasich. Does it say, though, something about okay. You dis agragree with the proces it was in colorado but you had months to prepare. Does it Say Something your critics say it says something about your leadership ability, for somebody who touts himself as somebody whos an organizational genius, whos created this amazing Business Organization, that you couldnt create an organization on the ground that can beat ted cruzs organization. Number one, i started with a 1 million loan. I built a 10 billion company. Its a phenomenal company. Is the Business Organization the same as a Political Organization . A lot of similarities. In this case, ive won most of it. You can say, what about organization . Well, how come im leading by hundreds of delegates, how come im leading by millions of votes . Remember this, i was supposed to lose south carolina. I was supposed to lose to bush, new hampshire. I was supposed to lose the entire south. I won virtually everything in the south. I look at your board, i mean, its all my color, whatever that color is. I guess its sort of a semipurple. Not the nicest color, but thats okay. But i won the entire south. I won florida. I could say they have a Bad Organization because cruz was supposed to win alabama, arkansas, he was supposed to win kentucky. He lost all of them. He lost florida. The point is, i mean, if you talk about that, i can say, well, if my organizations not so good, how come ive won many more states than him and millions of votes . I just want to read you what corey gardner, a republican senator from colorado said. Hes really annoyed at what youve been saying. Hes a member of the establishment. Youre insulting these delegates who ran who are regular people. Im insulting the system. The system is not a good system. He says how on earth are you going to defeat isis if you cant figure out the colorado Gop Convention . We can figure it out. Its stacked against us. How come my people went there, delegates, great delegates, theyre all over the internet burning up their republican card. How come how does that stack against y y you . Because the Republican Party in colorado wanted cruz or maybe they wanted somebody other than trump. I dont think anybody really wants cruz. Why would they want him . Theres no reason to want him. But the Republican Party wanted somebody other than trump. And you know, the funny thing, i am the only one thats going to beat Hillary Clinton assuming she runs, assuming she gets out of her problem which she probably will because thats a system thats bad, too. Ill give you another example. Im no fan of bernie sanders. Im no fan at all. To me, hes forget it. Every time i turn on, hes winning, hes winning. Every week after week, he wins, he wins, he wins, he wins. Then i watch you and all of the pund pundits, they say, but he cant win. You know why . Its stacked against him. It really is. Its stacked against him. In his case, its superdelegates, in my case its the obvious. But its stacked against you said in the past if you werent being treated fairly, youd consider a third party run. Is that something still on the tab table . Its something i dont want to do. Look, im winning by a lot. Based on the numbers you just gave me from new york im leading by more than 40 points a good chance of picking up all the delegates. Everybody else flew town. Cruz left town. He talked about new york values like you and i and everybody else, we know about new york values when we saw what happened with the World Trade Center and how incredible new york was. So i think he left town. I dont think hes going to come back. But im winning new york. I think ill do great in new jersey. Ill do great in pennsylvania. Ill do great in connecticut. Rhode island is great. Maryland. I mean, i got a lot of states where they know me. The nice thing is the states that know me are the ones that i really do well in. Like florida. They know me in florida. I won in a landslide. Bun of the knocks on you, you disagree with it, you havent given a lot of specifics to some of your policies. Your campaign has been saying, i think it was last week they started saying you were going to start putting out very specific policy pronouncements. Im going to start doing that, yes. I did one at aipac about concerning israel and it was met with raves. You even said it was good. I did one on im going to be doing probably ten over the next two months. You know when the next one is going to be, what the topic is going to be . Id say early next week. Do you know what the topic will be . Were looking at different ones. I want to talk about unity in the Republican Party because i think its very important. But were going to be talks about the military. Were fwoings going to be talks nato. When i talked about nato last week identify been building buildings all my life and doing deals all my life. Its obsolete. Everyone is ripping us off. 28 countries. Theyre ripping us off. Its obsolete. A soviet union that doesnt exist. Russia is plenty strong. It doesnt cover terror. If it does cover terror, the wrong countries are in. You say its obsolete. Of course its obsolete. It was done 68 years ago and hasnt changed. Experts on nato say trump is right. These are the people who study it. You gave an interview to usa today talking about possible Vice President ial picks. You did say you would like you name marco rubio, you name john kasich. You even named scott walker. I said theyre people i like. Right. Heres the problem. Ive beaten them very, harshly. Walker was supposed to win. Right after i started on him, he want back to wisconsin, okay . And he endorsed senator cruz. Of course he did. I didnt ask him for an endorsement. How could i ask him for an endorsement . I was the one who got him out. Jeb bush the same thing. Marco the same thing. I cant imagine they like me too much. When youre saying you like them as potential Vice President s or i like them as people. I like them as people. Now, could they be involved in some form in the government . Yeah. Absolutely i think they could. I dont necessarily think for a Vice President. Its interesting because they are all sort of, you know, you could argue establishmenttype candidates. Is that whoever you would pick for a Vice President , weve talked about this before, is that what you would look for, somebody who with political experience on the ground in washington, essentially a washington player who can help you with congress . Yes. Without a doubt . Im a business guy. Were going to make great deals on trade. Its right in my wheelhouse. Were going have a strong military, rebuild our military. Were going to take care of health care. Im going to do so well with so many different things. I want have somebody who can deal with congress, that gets along with congress, thats a washington person. Can you name one . I dont want to do that now. I think its inappropriate. I think its the wrong time. I do have people in mind. I have a lot of people look, ive been dealing in politics all my life. I know most of these politicians. I have great respect. Sort sessi senator sessions, Jeff Sessions endorsed me. He was supposed to endorse cruz. Everybody thought cruz, i think its his alltime most respected senator and cruz would talk about him all the time. Senator sessions, senator sessions just endorsed me. And, you know, i have a lot of respect for a lot of the politicians but i would certainly want that to be a political position. Were going to take a break. When we come back, questions from the audience for mr. Trump. His wife, melania, daughters ivanka and tiffany, and sons donald jr. And eric. That on this second a. 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And we are back with donald trump and joining us his wife, melania, sons donald jr. , his daughter just jumped on the stage as well, shes 8 years old. Eric is with us. Daughters tiffany and ivanka. Welcome, great to have the whole family together like this. Ivanka, i have to start off with you. Congratulations on your baby. How is everything going . Thank you, everything is going incredibly well. Theodore is 2 weeks old as of sunday. Are you sleeping through the night . No, not even close. Not even close, but its a blessing, so were very happy. Congratulations. Thats the most important thing. Im curious, when your dad, your husband, i mean, how did the conversation come up . Did he was there a family meeting like on the brady bunch, i mean, did he call each of you individually and say, you know, im going to do this this time and what did you think . Well, i think its such a personal decision that ultimately it was one he had to arrive to on his own, and obviously as weve all seen over the last several months its a vicious industry politics, much more so than real estate or anything weve ever experienced, so, but we were just incredibly excited for him. I mean, we know what hes capable of. Weve stood by his side for the last decade, in my case, a little bit longer in dons case, and watched him do these deals at the Trump Organization and we know what he can bring to the country so were just happy to support him. Hes flirted with it before. Did you think, okay, this time its actually going to happen . I think this time we knew it. You sensed the frustration in 2008, sensed the frustration even more so in 2012 but i think we were young, he has a company, he actually employs tens of thousands of people whose livelihoods and wellbeing depend on the stuck success of the com. I was 28, hes not going to say, heres a billion dollar company, leave it with us and hope the people who have been loyal to him for so many years will be okay. Weve been in the cpany much longer, have the decades of experience, he can walk away knowing the people who are so good to him for that period of time are going to be taken care of and he can do what he wants for the country. Melania, were you nervous for him or instantly like, yeah, lets do this . I was not nervous for him but he was thinking about it and i gave him my support and i said to him, you need to go and run and people will take serious and if you run, you will win and i see how people react to him before he announced it. Tiffany, eric, when you saw him coming down the escalator with melania, did you have any idea that it would go on this long, that it would become what it has . Its an amazing Success Story if you look at it, right, hes been in politics nine months and hes winning the Republican Party for president of the united states. I mean, its really an incredible story, but to your specific question, i actually remember when you said listen, kids, im going to do this, im going to hop into the race, i want to selffund, i want to do it for the country. This is about the country. This country has given me everything. Im going to give back. It was a powerful moment. Ill never forget that. The moment in the office together, you know, the four of us and it was a special moment for us. Tiffany, for you, what did you think . Whenever my father puts his heart and soul into something, he goes full force. When he finally decided to, you know, run for president , i think all of us knew, you know what, here we go. He really just worked so hard. We knew it would be a success. I had no doubt in my mind how would get as far as he has. Ivanka, eric, its no surprise, i got to ask you, there was news just this week both of you were not registered to vote in the primary. What happened . Well, im an independent and ive always voted based on the candidate as opposed to based on the party and it was actually a very interesting experience. So were not a family of politicians. We havent been in politics very long. New york has one of the most onerous rules in terms of registration and it required us to register a long time ago, almost close to a year ago. And we didnt do that. We found out about it sort of after the fact. But it was actually why i started making a series of videos to educate people in each of the individual states because every state is different. Most states you can register as late as the day of the actual when did you realize you werent going to be able to vote around a week later. Is that right . Yeah. Eric, how about for you . It was the same thing. We fell into the same boat. It was our first kind of foray into politics. We didnt realize how the whole system worked. It was amazes. We actually made it a very big part of the campaign and no one thats been more visible on the campaign than the two of us but we made it a very big part to get that message out. Get out, register, go out, vote, heres how you do it. We gave them the tools to go out and figure out that process. It actually was a great educational process for us and one that probably, you know, helped the campaign a lot. Youre seeing the turnout, by the way, so many people registering all the time. You see the people flipping sides to be able to vote for my father. Thats pretty amazing. Do you consider yourself a republican . Yeah, ive been always. Eric . Very much. Im registered in pennsylvania as a republican. Ivanka, youre still an independent . Im an independent. What was your reaction when you found out they werent going to be able to vote for you in the primary . I knew ivanka is independent, i understand why she is. Its hard to be thrilled with whats going on in politics, either party if you look at whats going on. She was an independent. Shes going to switch over to be republican at some point. Perhaps she wants to see whats going on. I have a feeling shell be voting in november for me. Thats no question. Thats no question. There i can vote as an independent. I wanted you to meet some of the voters here. This is nicole hart. She is a technical designer from here in manhattan. She says shes leaning toward supporting you, mr. Trump, but shes got a question for mela a melania. Hi, melania. Hello. Do you feel that you and mr. Trump raised barron differently than he did his older children . Well, its a different time and different generation, and especially now the time is different. Hes not home much. Hes working hard. Hes on the road all the time. And im at home being a parent and to be very happy when we have him home because we miss him. Yes, its a little bit different but kind of still the same. He loves to work, he loves the country. We see he will do something amazing if people elect him to be a president. Mr. Trump, do you think youre a different dad to your youngest, to barron, than you were to your older kids . Well, i think i appreciate it more. You know, its very interesting, with all of the children, ive always been, i think, a very good father. Was always important to me. A lot of people say my children have done a good job, and they better keep doing a good job. But they come to me, friends of mine, very successful people, and their children have problems with drugs and problems with alcohol and problems with a lot of things and they say could you speak to my son, could you speak to my daughter . Im always very honored to do that. I shave so many friends that hae asked me to do it. I think now as ive gotten older, i appreciate the fact more. Whereas before i was charging forward but perhaps we appreciate life a little bit more. This is peggy, she works in real estate. She says her dad actually worked for your father, fred. She says shes voting for you next tuesday and shes got a question for eric. Hi, eric, how are you . Peggy, how are you . My question is, rather, its a statement. When i was younger, i formed a very special bond with my dad through football. We used to spend countless hours together watching games and i wanted to know, do you have a special bond with your dad, just the two of you . Yeah. I have many special bonds with my father. We love work. Right, its something that really brings us together. We love building. The two of us love machinery, we love building, we love concrete, we love jobs. Well sit on the phone at 6 00 in the morning and talk about our favorite jobs. I think that brings a lot of fun to us and a lot to the relationship. We also love golf. You know, we go out, we play golf together and its just something that we really enjoy. Listen, theres a lot of things. He has a great sense of humor. Hes been the greatest father in the world. Hes just always had so much love for us and his whole family. Hes an amazing guy. One of my best friends in the entire world. Maybe my best friend in the entire world. Hes an amazing man. Theres really a lot that brings it together. Thank you so much. Peggy was saying she worked for your dad. What was your relationship like with your dad . It was great. It really became much better when i hit about 20 when i graduated from the Wharton School of finance and i started working but i worked with him during summers, but it was a great relationship. Did you always know you were going to go into this business is. No, i wanted to be a baseball player, wanted to make movies. I had a lot of ambitions as i was growing up but ultimately i decided id work for my fathers over the summer. I was in cincinnati, ohio. I worked there. Different places. I loved doing it. Ultimately when i got out of school, i said thifs was the right thing to do. We had buildings in brooklyn and queens and i always wanted to go into manhattan. I used to look across the river and see the big buildings and it was something that always intrigued me. I had a great relationship with my father. Probably even better when i worked with him. This is lilian ortiz over here. Shes an attorney from suffolk county, new york. She says shes planning on voting for you but has a question for tiffany. Lilian . Tiffany, good evening to you all. Good evening. What do you most admire about your dad . I think ive grown up sees him such a mentor. His hard work ethic is truly inspiring. Whenever im, you know, at school studying these long hours, i see him on tv without any sleep and making these speeches and just makes me want to continue to work harder and prove myself and, you know, keep on pushing to my limit. Thank you. Tiffany, your mom revealed just recently that you had your first job interview. I dont know that you wanted her to reveal that. How did it go . I think pretty well. Were you nervous . I think everyones nervous, graduates college, finding your first job. I think i can understand and resonate with a lot of other College Graduates at this time. You know, this is the first time youre out in the world on your own. So luckily i have a supportive family, jared, ivankas husband, my father, my mother has been so supportive. What has it been like watching your dad on the political arena . Its been amazing. Its a once in a lifetime opportunity truly and to be able to be the daughter of somebody running for the president , election, no up really has that opportunity. Its an education in and of itself. Yeah. I want you to meet arlene tang, shes over here. Shes a physician. She says shes undecided. Shes got a question for you, mr. Trump. Arlene . Good evening, mr. Trump. I was wondering do you talk to your wife and children the same way that you speak at the gop debates . The same way . [ laughter ] i think im much nicer to them. I will say, you know, you talk about the debates, i never knew about debating. My whole life has been sort of a debate, but the politicians, they debate every night. I didnt know how that was really going to work out. And the debates, i love the debates. I really had fun with them. I think ive done well with them. Ive been on the center stage every single debate. And ive really enjoyed it, but i will tell you, i speak to my wife and children much, much differently and but it has been an interesting process. Theyre always saying, be nicer on the debates. I say, theyre coming at me from all these different angles, how can i be nice . Melania in particular would say, be nicer in the debates. I say, i cant do that. I have to win first. What do you say to them . Because i think i saw mr. Trump, you saying on the campaign trail, both melania and also ivanka were telling you to be more president ial. How would you like him to be different . Just to use nice language. Better language. Better language. I know you not all the time. Sometimes i agree with it. Somebody yelled at something at one of his rallies, you were upset at that. I was thinking just dont repeat it because next day the press all they will talk is about the word, inappropriate word and that was correct. Ivanka, what have you staaido him about being president ial . One of the interesting things about this process, its very easy to have an opinion on things but when youre not in the arena, its, you know, a different ball game. Ive definitely said things of that kind to him but i also then watch these debates and its a hard thing to observe because i see them, its like a cage match. You know, theyre jumping on him. Theyre hitting him from the left. Hitting him from the right. Everyones attacking him because hes been the frontrunner for so long. Its hes the man to take down. So while i do sometimes tell him to withhold some of that sort of fire, i also understand it and i think its instinct and i think it also speaks to his passion and i think thats ultimately what we need. I mean, you have to have tremendous stamina to get through this process. You have to have a fire and a passion. I dont think you can be particularly laid back and make it through this whole experience from one ive observed especially when youre competing against many very qualified people who are quite upset by the fact that youve logged past them. You still talked about changing your tone from time to time, maybe even soon. Do you think thats actually going to happen . Because a lot of people are saying, look, youve been talking about that for a while. Sure. Maybe hes not actually capable of changing. Im very capable of doing it. Its easy to do it. Its easier to do it than the way i behave right now. Why not . I have two more people i have to take out. [ laughter ] and when i take them out, i will be so president ial you wont believe it then, of course, ill start on hillary then ill be a little less president ial. But assuming i win, i will be very, very the country will be very proud of me and we will make America Great again. You know, my whole thing is make America Great again. I havent heard that. Its so important to me. I know, its just so important to me because we have such potential and were not using our potential. And were being scoffed at and laughed at by the world. Whether its trade, whether its paying for other countries m l military and not being properly reimbur reimbursed. Its so sad whats happening to our country. Thats why we have 19 central in de trillion in debt, going up to 21 trillion in debt quickly because of the horrible budget deal that was just made. Ill be very president ial at the right time. This is alan, hes leaning toward supporting you. He has a question for ivanka. Hi, ivanka. You and Chelsea Clinton are personal friends. Has the campaign put a strain on your friendship . With you and chelsea working on your prospective parents campaigns, is there a Common Ground where you guys can find an issue to agree on and do you think youll still be friends with her after this election cycle . Well, look, were children and we love our parents so thats the great equalizer and thats the great Common Ground, so im incredibly proud of my father. Im amazed and truly in awe of what hes accomplished and what hes accomplished throughout the course of his life up until this point. But, you know, the last ten months have really been a whole different level. I think she would probably say the same about her mother, so shes probably very proud of her mother and we certainly would share that i would think. This is mitchell bernstein, hes an i. T. Director from brookhaven, new york, he says hes leaning toward supporting you. He has a question for all thewomthe the women on the stage. Mitchell . Yes. Youre probably aware the media has gone after your father on several occasions regarding women in general. And i was wondering how you felt about how the media has treated him, how hes presented himself and what you can do in general to improve the relationship and to provide information about how your relationship with your father is in regards to women in general. Well, i think the facts speak for themselves. I have witnessed these incredible female role models that hes employed in the highest executive positions at the Trump Organization my entire life. And an industry that has been dominated by men, is still dominated by men but certainly was when he was starting out in his career and he was employing some of these women and raising them through the ranks. So, you know, for me, i think the way he raised me, the way he raised tiffany, its a testament to the fact that he believes in inspiring women, empowering women. He always taught me there wasnt anything i couldnt do if i set my mind to it, if i had deep passion, if i really unearth what it is that i wanted to do with my life then worked very hard to achieve it and i dont think thats the message a father would relay to a daughter who he didnt believe had the potential to accomplish exactly what her brothers could. So, you know, for me, its his actions speak louder than the words of many politicians who talk about gender equality, but its not evidenced in their daily employment practices. So i think both at the Trump Organization and also in a more personal capacity, the type of father he was to a daughter, to daughters, i think evidences how he feels about our gender in general. Tiffany . I think my father, since ive been a little girl, has always just inspired me and had so much faith in me to just be the best person i can be, the best woman i can be. Every time i speak to him on the phone whether it be at school, when im with him in his office in palm beach, its just, he wants us to do the best and he has the utmost faith that we can accomplish whatever we set our minds to just as well as men, if not better and were such strong, hard workers. I mean, ivanka, of course, melania, i just truly feel my father is the best father, the best husband that he could be, truly. Melania . He treats everyone equally. So if youre woman and he attacks they attack him, he will attack back. No matter who you are. Were all human and he treats them equal as men, so i think thats very important. He doesnt make a difference. And he encourage everybody, man or a woman. Thank you for your question. Were going to take one more short break. Back with the trump family right after this. For your retirement, you want to celebrate the little things, because theyre big to you. And that is why you invest. The best returns arent just measured in dollars. Td ameritrade®. Back now with more questions for donald trump, his wife, sons, and daughters. Thanks very much for doing this. One of the questions i asked governor kasich and his wife yesterday about his daughters, i want to ask you, melania, which is do you monitor your sons social media . Its a question parents are concerned about given all the things that are going on. Do you watch your sons social Media Presence . He has an iphone. Hes not on social media yet. Hes 10 years old. I think its too early to be on social media. Hes talking about instagram i will go into it when i think its the right age. Its a hard decision to make. I grew up without social media. It was in one way better because i see a lot of bullying kids going on and we need to protect our children. We need to watch over them. It seems like bullying just used to be in schools but now because its social media, its 24 hours a day, it reaches into the home adds wes well. You dont really know. You need to check on your children and talk to them and have conversation with them but its very important to be close parent and kind of on top of them but still let them be who they are. I got to ask you guy, do you monitor your dads social media . Impossible task. I have no idea what youre talki ining about anderson. Are there some days you wake up and look at twitter and you think, really . It kind of makes him the person he is, honestly. Its so great to not see the sound bites, the traditional politician sound bites you read too often. I mean, hes so authentic. He writes the tweets himself. He doesnt have a team of hundreds and hundreds of people behind him. I thichbnk thats what makes hi the candidate he is. The retweets. The tweets are fine. The retweets get a little shaky. Theyre running focus groups, how do we word this so we tell everyone what they want to hear . When it comes time to actually dli dlif. His is genuine. The fight, the spirit, lacking in todays politician where they just go with the wind. You dont have to retweet people. You can just let it stand. You know whats interesting, i started off a number of years ago and i now see that over the weekend, i picked up, like, almost 100,000 people and i have 7. 5 million, 7. 6 Million People there, almost 7. 5 Million People on facebook. I have millions. Its really an asset. I really enjoy it, but its really an asset. You see whats going on. There is some genius there. I mean, you will get you will read some of the stuff, theres genius there. You have to find the right genius. But it is a powerful thing. I mean as president , though no, i wouldnt be doing it. You wouldnt. I would do it very little. Its digfferent. Right now if im fighting one of my opponents i can tweet out things and my feelings. I had it on cnn. There was one instance i was at a town hall and somebody got up and made a negative statement about the president. You probably remember, very negative. They never found out who this guy was. Was he a setup or what . I know what youre talking about. He made a negative statement about the president and they said i didnt defend him. It was a big deal. I remember i tweeted one line then another line and i put it out and it broke into cnn, this major broadcast, donald trump breaking news. Its like, im sitting there, i just did this and it totally solved the problem. It doesnt all work badly, but it is a modern method of communication and, you know, when i have 16 million or 17 Million People when you add it up, it gives me a big advantage do you write all your own tweets . When somebody retweets from your account, youve retweeted id say, yes, other than if we release some information, i have people, dan, and other people who will do it. Do you actually sit there and type or sit there during the day, im in the office, i shout it out to one of the young ladies. I have tremendous office staff. Meredith and some of the people that work for me. And ill just shout it out and theyll do it. During the evenings after 7 00 or so, i will always do it by myself. Melania, do you ever want to say to him, put the mobile device down . That, like, its 2 00 a. M. And youre still tweeting. If he would only listen. I did many times. And i just say, okay, do whatever you want. Hes an adult. He knows the consequences. And lets meet more voters. This is andrew, hes a small businessowner who says hes leaning toward voting for you, mr. Trump. Hes got a question for donald jr. Andrew . Hi. Definitely got my vote. That was good. Thats good. Thank you. I admire how you guys being in the public eye remain more grounded and became so successful. Compliment you, father on that, and mom, obviously. And my question is when your parents were getting divorced, how did your father help you get through that . Well, listen, i dont think it was an easy time. It was obviously a difficult time to go through for any young kid. I was 12 years old. Youre at that stage in life where you think youre a man but youre not quite. It was a difficult thing. Throughout our lives hes always been there, on his terms. It wasnt a typical lets go play catch in the backyard father son relationship. We always went to job sites with him. Wed be in his Office Playing with trucks as a 6yearold while hes negotiating deals with president s of major companies. He always made himself available. I remember calling from school, boarding school, getting home from school when we were younger. Hed pick up the phone and say, jack welsh is in the office, say hi, don. Because we were always present, because we always were on his terms, at job sites, it really instilled a work ethic and a value for the business that were in that it just its what we grew up in, what we understood. When it came time to start running the business and go in there, it was a very natural progression. I always joke ive been working with the company for 38 years because he set that up and it was that work ethic and that foundation that he implanted that allows us to probably do what it is that we do today. So, you know, its really all him. Eric, i saw an interview you gave, i cant remember if its a print interview, where you said the divorce actually brought you closer to your siblings. Yeah, i think thats right. Don is my best friend, ivanka is my best friend. Were inseparable with tiffany. We Work Together every day, have offices next to each other. We also vacation together. Kai spends a weekend at my house, we watched frozen together. She insisted on sitting on my lap because she got the shy gene. My father and mother did a great job at was actually protecting us from the media, really protecting us from the media during those times and we grew up. As we started gaining a little bit of that iron shield, we became more visible. Now you see us every single day and its something we love doing because we truly love the man to death. We really love our father and our whole family. I want to you to meet sherry murray. She is currently undecided. She has a question for melania. Thank you. Mr. Trump, you have a bunch family. Im a mom, as well, my daughter, shyla, and two sons, abel and jace. I wanted to know what you love most about being a mom, mel lum and also are you guys interested in having more kids . Well, its amazing every day. Our son is 10 years old and everything is different. Every day its, you know, something special. And its unconditional love and i enjoy every day. I love being mom. Very special time. And im at home and raising him, teaching him values and morals and preparing him for adult life because sooner or later he will have wings to fly and i will be always there for him, but he will be very independent and ready to go. Anymore kids . Were not really thinking about ivanka, my mom has been pressuring me to actually have kids. Whats being a mom meant to you, how has it changed you . I think its changed me in almost every capacity. I think its made me a better person, a better wife. I think im much more empathetic. Once you start thinking about a Bigger Picture outside of yourself which its easy to be very selfcentered when youre young and youre single and obviously it started when i got married and i became a we. Then having kids brings it to a whole different level. Putting them first and they become very much the center of your universe. Just seems exhausting. It is and its exhausting. It is. Its really, its the most amazing type of challenge you really cant prepare yourself for but is so unbelievably rewarding. I feel so fortunate. I have three children now under the age of 4 1 2. Wow. And its exhausting, but its the perfect kind of chaos. I want you to meet joseph cohen, hes a student at columbia yuuniversity. Says hes undecided. He has a question for ivanka. I want to congratulate you on the birth of your son. How did your father react to converting to judaism . I tend not to talk about it in a public forum. My father is very supportive. He knows me, he knows and he trusts my judgment. When i make decisions, i make them in a wellreasoned way. I dont rush into things. So i appreciate the support he gave me because obviously these decisions are not taken lightly. And it would have been much more hard if i had had headwinds, but he believes in me. He loves my husband. Theyre incredibly close which i think was obviously helpful. And he has been very supportive of me in that decision as in many others that ive taken throughout the years. Thanks for your question. This is britney, shes a student at the Fashion Institute of technology. She says shes undecided. Shes got a question basically for all the kids. Hi. So how intimidating was it to introduce your significant others initially to your father . Well, i dont think that any of us necessarily got the shy gene. Theres not a lot of shy in our family. So i think were all pretty selfconfident, so i think it made it relatively easy but it was probably a unique experience for all of us, but, you know, hes been just incredible now, always has been as a father but even as a grandfather. I have five kids of my own and my wife is a stayathome mom, takes care of all five of them. Her job is a lot tougher than mine. We have a pretty tough job. Its amazing. Hes incredibly supportive of that as well. And just seeing him as a grandfather, i mean, i wish something that people could see because it is amazing. Its a side of him you wouldnt see. Not something we talk about all that often. Its just incredible. Watching him with kai on the golf course or any other situation, its just pretty amazing. There may have been some intimidation initially but he trusts us pretty i remember spying on the lunch that my father and husband had in trump towers. How did you spy on them . I went downstairs, there were a tremendous amount of hand gestures, i didnt know if this was good or bad. I was, you know, obviously when you love somebody so much, you hope that the people in your lives love one another. Do you remember that . Im very fantastically happy with him. Im very happy with the up in members of the family. Its got to hard he trusts us. Were independent people. All he can do is support us, be a loving father and hope that were taken care of as well. If its not good, the older brothers will get involved. High school was rough for me in that regard. There may have been a couple instances. Is that right . One or two. Theyre very protective. This is joseph from staten island. Hes leaning towards you. First of all, mr. Trump, i respect you as a businessman but more importantly as a father. You swayed me tonight. Good. Definitely. My question for you, don, what have you learned as the greatest experience as a businessman from your father and do you think sometimes tone is important and you get more with honey than vinegar so to speak. I think without question. Whats interesting throughout this process everyone talks about that and tone but there actually comes a time when you have to put the hammer down. There comes a time when being nice and trying to do all this stuff, when people are laughing at your face, you have to actually fight back. Thats whats so important about what he does. Hes not just going to go every time theres a little change in the winds, hes going to flip. Thats not what he does. Hes going to fight for the american people. Tone is important. Ive seen him do that for the 38 years ive been working in the company, ive seen him do deals with people from all over the world, different background, different ethnicities, different everything, different personalities. Hes able to do that better than anyone. No one can be more endearing. He wins everyone over, when the time is right. But were at a stage in our country where i think we all believe were in a time of change, the biggest joke i see is how the politicians talk about how theyre great public servants. Theyre serving themselves. He doesnt need this. But he wants to give back to the country that have been so great to him, that have been so loyal to him. Its given him so many opportunities, whether it be family or business. He wants to go through this brutal process to go through this opportunity. And its incredibly selfless and its resonating with the people. Is there a particular lesson that sticks out . Absolutely. He isnt a guy that sits you on his knee and says this is how you you do this. He lets you learn by experience. Hell let you make mistakes and then follow. But you better be right because if youre not, hell hear about it for the rest of your life. We know you lost your brother from alcoholism at age 43, i lost a sister from alcoholism at age 37. Its a life changing event and you really have to take stock in your life. Right. My question is how did you weve seen so many the children of so many wealthy people who have, you know, theyve ended up being a mess. How did you instill with your kids, how did you protect them, how did you instill a sense of personal responsibility with them and what advice would you give for parents whose children may be struggling with addiction . Its such an important question and a agrgreat questio. I had a brother that was a fantastic guy. I talked about this with anderson once yes, my brother killed himself. My brother was this great guy, handsome guy, great personal but he started drinking and it became a real problem for him. He used to tell me, dont ever drink and he said dont spoke. In those days it wasnt the drug thing, it was more the alcohol thing. Today you have to add the word drug. He knew he had a problem and he was one of my truly great teachers. My father and my brother. I said that all the time. My brother because of this and other things. Hed say dont ever drink, dont ever drink. Ive never had a drink, ive never had a glass of alcohol and yet i own the largest winery in the east coast but thats okay. My brother was so instrumental in probably shaping my life because i dont know what the outcome would have been. When my children was growing up, even when they didnt know what drinking was id say no alcohol, in drugs, no cigarettes. Id add cigarettes because i have kids that say they cant kick it. I have so many friends that have that problem. Its a tough world to start out. But when you have that as an additional problem, its awfully tough to really do it. I tell parents keep your kids away from the drugs and the alcohol. Its going to make their life that much easier. I dont have a longing for drinking because i never drank. I have other problems and we wont talk about them, okay, but the drugs and the alcohol, so important that your children just stay away from it. Was that something you remember distinctly growing up . Every day of our life. Every morning. Every morning . Every morning before school. As Young Children it was often accompanied by eye rolling. She used to say, daddy, dont say that anymore. But i just felt it was important because ive seen so many brilliant Young Children of wonderful parents destroyed because they drank or they took drugs. I want you to meet diane morgan. Shes a teacher here in manhattan who said shes supporting governor kasich. She has a question for you, mr. Trump. Hello. Thank you for answering my question. Im a mom of three, here in new york, ethan, jane and laura. Im wondering what do you consider the two or three most important Financial Principles to teach your children or that youve taught your children. Well, ive always said and i make speeches on this and they pay me a lot of money and i give it to charnts and siem happy about it and i love doing it but i always say you have to love what you do. So important. You can never, ever give up. I see so many people where they have talent and theyre very smart and i see it even in schools where i went to school, some of the people that werent really as smart as other people are much more successful now because they were just more driven and they never, ever quit or gave up. And keep the momentum going. But you have to love what you do. You know, if youre in a great business, real estate business has been a great business, but if my children like some other business that wasnt maybe as good a business but they just loved it, i would absolutely tell them to pursue that because youll never be happy. You have to love what you do. I want to ask you in closing to each of you kids, i hate to say kids but it makes me feel younger. Is there something in the course of this campaign about your dad that you didnt know . I think its an amazing question because weve seen so many. The perseverance. We always knew it was there but going into something as a freshman politician and being the star of the super bowl right now, its pretty incredible. I think its not so much i learned anything new, it just reinforced what i already knew about him as just being just the hardest working guy ive ever seen. I mean, its just the drive, the work ethic that weve seen our whole lives has been reinforced at this stage in his life. After every hes done to want to do this and do this for the country, its really special. Its a passion. He came into this race with so much passion. He put everything into it, kids, go run the company, take on the company, do what you youve done so well, im going to do this. His whole career, whether its building the greatest buildings in the world, building one of great hotel portfolios and now running for president. He has the ability to turn things into gold. Its the passion that makes him so successful for what he does. He never gives up. Hes works harder and harder opinion and hes able to balance everything hes doing on the campaign trail with his business and also taking care of us and being such app amazing father. I think having those two qualities and us receiving so much love from him, even when hes so busy is an amazing quality to have. I think one of the things ive always been most inspired by in observing my father is the way that he really inspires others, the way at our company, at the Trump Organization, he will set a very aggressive, a very bold vision and then really help people find it, help people both unearthir