Donald Trump, the frontrunner Republican candidate for president in the primary campaign season so far, told the Hill in a lengthy sit-down interview he ought to have Secret Service protection, given his crowds.

He also expressed a bit of outrage at the fact President Obama garnered the federal protection force during his race for the White House, as early in the campaign season as May 2007.

Trump, who’s bringing in crowds that rival what then-senator Obama did, has not yet been given Secret Service, however. And as the Hill pointed out: He’s not pleased.

“I want to put them on notice because they should have a liability,” he said, in the interview with the news organization. “Personally, I think if Obama were doing as well as me he would’ve had Secret Service [earlier in his campaign]. I have by far the biggest crowds.”

Obama’s Secret Service detail started on May 3, 2007, in what some law enforcement officials said was an uncommonly early protection plan for a candidate, the Hill said.

Trump said he’s had his personal security agents talk to Secret Service officials about the possibility of providing service, but so far, the federal authorities haven’t given a solid yes or no answer.

“They’re in no rush because I’m a Republican,” he joked, the Hill reported. “They don’t give a sh**.”

He then followed up that comment with this, a little later in the interview: “Of course, I don’t think they’d want anything to happen. But I would think they should be very proactive and want protection for somebody like me that has 20,000 people at any time. You would think that they would want to be very proactive, but we have not heard from them.”

Trump did bolster his own private security force in July after receiving threats from drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, who escaped from prison.

The Hill reported the Department of Homeland Security said it’s not received a formal request for Secret Service protection from Trump’s campaign.

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