On Bill Clinton: ''He handled the Monica situation disgracefully. It's sad because he would go down as a great President if he had not had this scandal. People would have been more forgiving if he'd had an affair with a really beautiful woman of sophistication. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe were on a different level. Now Clinton can't get into golf clubs in Westchester. A former President begging to get in a golf club. It's unthinkable.''

''To be blunt, people would vote for me,'' Mr. Trump says. ''They just would.'' Why? ''Maybe because I'm so good looking,'' he banters. ''I don't know. Larry King calls and says, 'Do my show. I get my highest ratings when you're on.' ''

The man is pure id, no trepidation, no guilt, no P.C. restraints. (As a friend of his says: ''He transmits; he doesn't receive.'') His only fear: ''I photograph short. I'm 6 foot 3.'' In a landscape of black-and-white candidates, he's Technicolor.

The rakish plutocrat thinks he could do better with the working class and minorities than ''my own people.'' He says: ''Rich people who know me love me. Rich people who don't know me hate me. The working man loves me.''

And how would the famous ladies' man do with the women's vote?

''I might do badly,'' he kids. ''They know me better than anybody else. Women are much tougher and more calculating than men. I relate better to women. I go out with the most beautiful women in the world. Certain guys tell me they want women of substance, not beautiful models. It just means they can't get beautiful models.''