Donald Trump: I’m no different to Franklin Roosevelt

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump likened his proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States to World War II policies implemented by US president Franklin Roosevelt against people of Japanese, German and Italian descent.

“What I’m doing is no different than FDR,” Trump said on ABC’s Good Morning America show in one of a round of heated television interviews where he defended his plan in the wake of last week’s California shooting spree.

“We have no choice but to do this,” the candidate seeking the Republican nomination in the 2016 presidential race told ABC.