“As a world-class businessman, you have to get along with everybody,” Trump told reports aboard his plane minutes before his scheduled event in Council Bluffs, Iowa. “I was able to get along with Clinton, I was able to get along with virtually every politician you can imagine.”

“When I went to Washington and I needed something, I got it,” he added.

Trump invited Bill and Hillary Clinton to his wedding in 2005 and has also said in the past that Clinton was his favorite living former president.

“As a businessman, especially a really successful businessman, it was my obligation to really get along with people: Democrats, Republicans, everybody,” Trump said. “I had an obligation to my company and my employees and my family.”