Trump wants Ditka ‘involved in some capacity’

by Jesse Byrnes - 09/09/15 1:31 PM ET

GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump says he would like to tap football legend Mike Ditka, whom he has “always loved,” to get “involved in some capacity.”

“Our country needs smartness and toughness. Other countries don’t respect us any longer. If I win, that will change very quickly. Mike’s kind of attitude and personality is what our country needs as its representative,” Trump told the Chicago-Sun Times.

{mosads}“I’d love to have Mike involved in some capacity. Why? Because Mike knows how to win and our politicians don’t,” Trump added to the newspaper’s Michael Sneed.

Trump’s comments came after the former Chicago Bears coach said Tuesday that he liked Trump and thought the businessman was “on the right track.”

“I think he sometimes has got to think a little bit more before he says things,” Ditka said for a weekly column in the newspaper.

“I think that he has the fire in his belly to make America great again,” he added.

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