Donald Trump was grilled Tuesday about not having concrete plans to back up many of his promises and he responded by saying, “You have to understand when you’re coming up with a plan in business, you have to be flexible.”
Trump, speaking at a campaign event in Birch Run, Michigan stated, “I recently bought something, not so recently, but Doral in Miami, everybody wanted it. If I would have sat down and said ‘Here’s a 12 point plan to get Doral.’ I didn’t do that. I went in and punched and punched and beat the hell out of people and I wound up getting it.”
Reporter: You have said right now you’re going to be great on women, you’re going to be great on China, you’ll be great on ISIS, you’ll be great on jobs.
Donald Trump: Hopefully everything.
Reporter: Fine, we haven’t heard a lot of, I talked to people outside the venue today. And they say where’s the meat on the bone? When are you going to tell us what you are going to replace Obamacare with? How you will fix China? How will you create jobs?
Trump: Ok well, first of all, and ISIS. You didn’t bring up ISIS. What happened?
Reporter: I did, but you didn’t listen. Where’s the plan?
Trump: I think you’re going to see lots of plans and you see also, and you have to understand when you’re coming up with a plan in business, you have to be flexible. There’s got to be flexibility. And I recently bought something, not so recently, but Doral in Miami, everybody wanted it. If I would have sat down and said, ‘Here’s a 12 point plan to get Doral.’ I didn’t do that. I went in and punched and punched and beat the hell out of people and I wound up getting it. Everybody wanted it. All of the smart money wanted it. The OPO, the old post office on Pennsylvania Avenue, everybody wanted it. I got it. In the Obama administration I got it, which is pretty shocking considering that Pritzker wanted it which is Hyatt and lots of other people. I got it because I know how to get things, I know how to get things done. You can’t sit down and say, ‘Well, I’m going to come up with a 19 point plan to get the old post office and create it into a great hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue.’ The most sought after property, I think in the history the history of the General Services Administration. Trump got it. I’m not an Obama person. You probably heard that. You have to be able to have flexibility, you have to be able to do certain things.
Reporter: Now you’re just asking people to trust you.
Trump: Well, I think there has to be a trust. There actually does have to be a trust. If you don’t trust, you’re not going to do very well.