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Real estate mogul Donald Trump hammered former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on jobs, China and immigration, among other things, on The Laura Ingraham Show on Wednesday.

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“Jeb is never going to take back jobs from China,” he said. “Jeb’s not going to negotiate with Japan, where they sell us millions and millions of cars, and we do nothing with them. It’s a one-way street.”

Trump also called Bush “very weak on immigration” and hit him for his support of the Common Core State Standards Initiative, which many conservatives have opposed as a federal takeover of education policy.

Trump, calling Jeb and Hillary Clinton “twins,” tried to tie Bush to the Democratic frontrunner, saying, “Hillary was the worst secretary of state in history. She’s going to make a terrible president,” he added. “Jeb Bush, in my opinion, will not do a very good job.”

“If I didn’t bring up immigration, it wouldn’t even be a subject right now,” he said.

Trump took credit for framing the debate within the Republican Party.

“If I didn’t bring up immigration, it wouldn’t even be a subject right now,” he said.

Trump had mostly kind words for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who appeared on the show earlier in the morning and who officially entered the presidential contest on Monday.

“I like him,” he told Ingraham. “I’ve always liked him. … I think he’s a good man. I don’t know that he’s going to have the gravitas. I don’t know.”

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Trump, the 68-year-old billionaire, was much more interested in attacking Bush. The two men have led the GOP field in a number of recent public opinion surveys. A USA Today/Suffolk University poll released earlier this week showed Trump with a small lead over Bush. Walker placed third.

Noting that Bush’s Super PAC political action committee had raised more than $100 million, Trump said the money comes at a price.

“They’re not expecting nothing,” he said, referring to the donors. “And a lot of those things might not be good for this country.”

Responding to his past support for former President Bill Clinton and other Democrats, Trump sad he had contributed to candidates across the spectrum to protect his business interests, adding that usually got what he wanted.

“That’s part of the problem with the system,” Trump said, adding that he will not be holden to anyone because he is self-financing his campaign.

Arthur Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute and also a guest on the program Wednesday, argued that Trump and other candidates need to pivot away from anger on issues like immigration and appeal to the aspirations of the American people. He told Ingraham that an inspiring approach has a “much longer shelf life than anger.”

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