"Kennedy Jr., who captivated the nation with his iconic final salute at age three to his father after his assassination, was a national favorite as a young boy growing up at the White House. Later in life, he founded George magazine and Trump said he was planning to run for the Senate in New York — and probably would have been president of the United States himself — had he not died in a tragic plane crash in the summer of 1999.

'He was a great guy. He was a friend of mine,' Trump said when asked about him and the letter he sent. 'Even though we were of a different persuasion, I believe he would have run for the Senate and that he would have been president someday. He was a handsome guy. He was a fantastic guy. He had the "it factor," and he would have gone to the top of the world in the Kennedy family.'”