Donald Trump Has A Plan To Defeat ISIS. No, He Doesn't. Wait, He Does...

Donald Trump has a secret plan to defeat the Islamic State. The plan, according to the Republican presidential nominee, is to have a plan. Or maybe the plan is to plan for a plan. It’s a matter of debate that may or may not be decided come November.

Asked Wednesday during NBC’s Commander-in-Chief forum in New York for his strategy to defeat ISIS, the real estate mogul doled out a heaping portion of word salad  claiming he both did and did not have a plan, which could ultimately change once he speaks with the nation’s generals.

“When I do come up with a plan that I like and that perhaps agrees with mine, or maybe doesn’t, I may love what the generals come back with,” Trump said.

“I have a plan, but I don’t want to look, I have a very substantial chance of winning, make America great again,” he continued. “We’re going to make America great again. I have a substantial chance of winning. If I win, I don’t want to broadcast to the enemy exactly what my plan is.”

“Let me tell you, if I like maybe a combination of my plan or the generals’ plan, if I like their plan, I’m not going to call you up and say, we have a great plan,” he added. “This is what Obama does. We’re going to leave Iraq on a certain date.” 

On Tuesday, in a speech on foreign policy, Trump announced he would give the military’s top generals 30 days to submit a plan for soundly defeating ISIS. 

But in his interview with NBC on Wednesday, Trump knocked the very same generals, claiming they “have been reduced to rubble” under President Barack Obama .

Asked whether he would seek advice from the same generals generals he’s claimed know less about ISIS than he does  Trump suggested a shakeup in the military.

“They’d probably be different generals,” he said.

Correction: This article incorrectly reported that Donald Trump said America’s generals have been reduced to “rumble.” He said “rubble.”

Editor’s note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar , rampant xenophobe , racist , misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the U.S.