Eric Trump

You know, having those four years in those courtrooms to know who was sitting by your side and who was your friend and who was showing up every single day and being able to empower those people to sit next to you in government, you could never have that same experience again because those people are all tested.

Those people are all battle-hardened.

you know, and those people are willing to go out there and fight.

And the establishment is weak, and my father is strong, and people understand these people for who they are, and there are so many times you can cry wolf before people get it.

America gets it.

My father is strong.

He's making transformational change.

The Democrats are weak.

And honestly, as painful as it was, those four years were the best thing that ever happened.

Well, Steve, it's kind of interesting when you say that, because I think for the longest time, Americans were almost like, you know, almost a glorified war, right?

I mean, you know, look at the Gulf War with Norma Schwarzkopf and everybody, you know, I mean, you know, a lot of patriotism about going in and, you know, kicking bad guys' butts and doing everything.

And now I think peace is actually being glorified in the world for the first time ever.

And I don't think it's something that people are spending a whole lot of time talking about, but I actually think it's society's changing.

I think society's changing from a lot of, you know, kind of hard-line American people who go in there and pump their chests and, you know, and want to kick butt and take names.

And God bless, I'm a red-blooded Republican.

You know, there's no one that likes that stuff when it's warranted more than me.

At the same time, now all of a sudden you're sitting there having a lot of people saying this is senseless.

You know, spending 20 years in the Middle East at the cost of trillions of dollars that could have been invested in our schools and our roads and infrastructure is senseless.

You know, the military complex in this country, it's crazy.

It's run away from us in ways that we can't even imagine.