Breaking his boycott of Fox News in less than a week, Donald Trump appeared on the network Tuesday night to discuss his conduct throughout his presidential campaign.
The Republican presidential front-runner appeared on "The O'Reilly Factor," where instead of talking directly about the issues, O'Reilly chose to ask Trump a series of questions about the fairness of various questions to avoid offending Trump again, according to Salon.
"Let me ask you a couple of questions, and if they're unfair, tell me they're unfair," O'Reilly said. "Is it fair to say that if you're going to win the Republican nomination, you're going to have to be a bit kinder and more mature?"
Trump said he found the question fair, but disagreed with the word "mature," saying it was inappropriate, according to Yahoo! News.
"I think it's fair," Trump replied. "Though I don't think the word 'mature' is appropriate. But it's not going to be a question of 'nice.' I think I'm a 'nice' person. I help people, I love people - but it's going to be a question of confidence, as Americans are sick of being pushed around by every country in the world."
He went on to brag about his poll numbers and argue the 2016 presidential campaign would not be about kindness, but competence, according to Variety.
"You have to be kind of presidential," O'Reilly countered, playing a video clip from last week in which Trump called Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, a Republican presidential rival, a "clown."
"Now would I be unfair to say to you - which I would if we were at a Yankee game - 'Hey, calling Sen. Rubio a 'clown' was not presidential.' Calling him a 'clown,' that's not presidential ... It's the 'clown stuff' that's not fine," O'Reilly added.
Trump insisted that he only started attacking Rubio after the senator attacked him first by bashing Trump's national-security credentials last week.
"I'm a counter-puncher - he hit me all of a sudden," Trump said while trashing Rubio's "unbelievably weak" immigration-policy record. "He hit me very viciously."
After weeks of tit-for-tat between Trump and Fox News, it appears that the two are finally good terms, as they should be, because as many mention: Fox needs Trump as much as Trump needs Fox.
