Trump: “How good can the economy be when a Harvard-educated man can only find work as a Jets QB?”

NEW YORK — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump fired back at the Democrats today, taking issue with President Obama’s claims in his speech at the DNC that the economy has improved under his watch and that Trump would only make it worse.

“It’s comical to me to hear how the economy is doing well and how it’s added jobs,” Trump said in an interview on Fox & Friends. “The jobs added are bad jobs, okay? Bad jobs. I heard about a man with a Harvard education that couldn’t get work anywhere but as the quarterback of the New York Jets. Is that not one of the saddest things you’ve ever heard? A Harvard education and he can’t do better than one of the most degrading jobs in professional sports. That’s Obama’s economy, okay? That won’t be Trump’s economy.”

Trump was asked if he was referring to the Jets agreeing to a one-year contract yesterday with Ryan Fitzpatrick, their quarterback from a year ago and one who played in college at Harvard.

“Yes, I think so,” said Trump. “Again, I just heard about it. I don’t know all the details. But it’s for a New York team that actually plays in New Jersey, not far from where I saw all those Muslims cheering the World Trade Center getting knocked down on 9/11.”

For the first time, the Republican then gave some clarification on when America was previously “great.”

“You look at the late ’60s,” said Trump. “This was an era in America when a guy who only went to a school like Alabama could quarterback the Jets to a Super Bowl championship. Today, under Obama, the Jets are a punchline. A punchline. Only I can make teams like the Jets great again.”

Trump also said he respects the New England Patriots and Bill Belichick and, if he is elected president, “will work with my friend Vladimir Putin to get Robert Kraft’s Super Bowl ring back.”