Carson: A Muslim should not be president

But later in the day, the bombastic businessman struck a different tone, acknowledging when asked that he would have “no problem” with appointing a Muslim American to his cabinet if he were elected.

Earlier in the segment, Trump said he feels strongly that “Muslims are excellent”.

Asked whether he was comfortable with a Muslim being president, Trump said: “It’s something that at some point could happen”. “It’s called Muslims. We know our current president is one“, the man told Trump. Trump also noted that he saw “a lot of people in the audience…nodding” their heads in agreement with what the questioner was saying. “No problem with that”.

Donald Trump used his Twitter account to respond to his latest controversy – how he handled a voter’s anti-Muslim question. He recalled an incident during the 2008 campaign when Republican nominee John McCain took the microphone away from a woman who said she didn’t trust Obama because he was an “Arab”.

“I have friends that are Muslims they’re great people, wonderful people“, Trump said on CNN’s “State of the Union“. Obama was born to an American mother and Kenyan father in Hawaii.

Asked what he would do specifically as president to combat the problem, Trump didn’t have a definitive answer. “I mean, it wasn’t people from Sweden that blew up the World Trade Center, Jake”, he told host Jake Tapper. “It’s a problem. We can say no, but it is”.

“I would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation”.

Carson did, however, distance himself from Donald Trump’s remarks last week, in which the front-runner claimed that his campaign was “going to be looking at” whether President Barack Obama is actually an American citizen and Christian.

“So – and even though you’ve raised questions and you’ve investigated this in the past, you’re still…” I listened to his question, he made a question slash, probably, statement.

“Are you trying to say we don’t have a problem?”

Under fire from critics for the interaction, Trump sent out a series of tweets Saturday, defending why he chose not to correct the supporter.

“If I would have challenged the man, the media would have accused me of interfering with that man’s right of free speech”.