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Former U.S. President Donald Trump stated on Tuesday that the two largest banks in the United States had previously refused to provide him with services. In an interview, Trump claimed that JPMorgan Chase notified him that he had 20 days to transfer "hundreds of millions of dollars in cash" to another bank. He did not specify when this occurred. Trump mentioned that he then contacted Bank of America to "deposit over $1 billion," but was told that the bank could not provide him with an account. "Brian Moynihan (CEO of Bank of America) said 'we can't do it,'" Trump said. "So I went from bank to bank. In the end, I could only go to small banks everywhere. I mean, I was depositing $10 million here and $10 million there." Trump referred to his businesses on Tuesday (likely referring to his real estate and hotel group), but it remains unclear whether the events he described pertained to personal accounts, business accounts, or both. "These banks are very discriminatory against me, and I have always been good to banks in the past," Trump said