On Saturday, Trump told Fox News he had not anticipated the business repercussions of his radioactive comments about Mexican immigrants. “I knew it was going to be bad because I was told this,” Trump said in an FNC interview about the companies that have cut ties to him. “All my life I have been told this: If you are successful, you don’t run for office. I didn’t know it was going to be quite this severe, but I really knew it was going to be bad.”

Announcing his candidacy in June, Trump discussed the need to stop illegal immigrants coming to this country via the Mexico border.”When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best,” Trump said. “They’re sending people that have lots of problems … they’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”