Trump on Romney: 'You Just Can't Give Him Another Chance'

MSNBC’s Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski asked Donald Trump if Mitt Romney is trying to steal Jeb Bush’s thunder by suggesting that he might consider another run for president.

“I would say the last thing we need is another Bush,” Trump said, adding that he knows “for a fact” that the two don’t like each other.

“As far as Romney is concerned, he had a great chance of winning and he blew it,” the real estate mogul said on Monday. “He’s like a dealmaker that couldn’t close the deal, so you just can’t give him another chance. It didn’t work. He got less votes than John McCain got years before and he was just unable to close the deal that should have easily been closed.”

“You know, it’s a little like a golfer — I’m at the Trump National Doral and we have the great championships here — and certain golfers cannot sink the 3-foot putt on the 18th hole,” Trump said.

Co-host Joe Scarborough asked Trump if he thought he would be able to “sink the 3-foot putt” if he ran for president.

Trump, who considered a run for the GOP nomination in 2012 said, “I think so. I think I could do a lot of things well if I got it. I would do a lot of things differently.”

He explained that he decided not to run in 2012 because of contractual obligation with his show, The Apprentice, but said the obligation no longer exists because the show “will be long gone by the time — in other words it will all be over in about five weeks, so after that the timing is good.”

Trump noted that in addition to the show, he has building projects all over the world, including a construction project on Pennsylvania Avenue. The Trump International Hotel is being built at the Old Post Office building in Washington, D.C.

“If you’re president of the United States you can check out your property on Pennsylvania Avenue,” Scarborough quipped.

“I don’t even have to move into the White House,” Trump said.

He said he would make his decision about whether to run for president over the next three months and will consider if other candidates are “all talk and no action. “The world is blowing up around us. Nobody knows what to do. There are problems that can be solved that these guys can’t solve.”