It's "nice to have our people back," GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump said Monday, but the Iran nuclear deal is a bad one that "could have been so much better."
"They're actually getting $150 billion and we are getting four people back," he told
Fox News' "Fox & Friends" program. "They're getting seven. Plus, and I know you just mentioned it, the 14 Interpol bad ones, they're bodies. So they're getting them and they're going to get oil and they're going to get a lot of other things. They get a lot of things in the deal."
Further, Trump said, the deal sets a "very, very dangerous precedent," as it increases the bounty on American heads.
"They'll start taking Americans and going to negotiate deals," said Trump. "The Persians are great negotiators. They've proven it here, but they're great negotiators and there was no reason for this.
"When we made the deal originally, we should have said we want the prisoners back, and they would have said no and we would have just gone on a little bit and we would have said that's okay, you leave the room."
But the Americans never left the room, and the State Department negotiators "don't know what they're doing, they're babies," he said. "This administration, they just don't know what they're doing. Embarrassing."
Trump also responded to statements made in Sunday night's Democratic president debate about his views on climate change being a "hoax," telling the show that he thinks "climate change is just a very, very expensive form of tax. Lots of people are making a lot of money. I know much about climate change. Many environmental awards."
Trump also addressed claims being made by rival presidential candidate Ted Cruz, who tweeted Sunday night that as the debate was beginning:
"You'd have to ask that same question of Ronald Reagan," said Trump. "Before I was a politician to be honest with you, my views changed and everybody's views change. And certainly, if you look at Ted Cruz, he was weak on immigration and now all of a sudden he's trying to say let's build a wall."