Oh, that's just pathetic. You might want to alter your line of argument.
The comment is just way too broad to pick on. Is he talking about the Common Defense? Well, that's right there in the Constitution. Is he talking about taking care of people by getting out of their way? Is he talking about taking care of those who truly need it, only? Is he talking about taking care of people by shutting the borders against Mexico, or preventing hostile Muslims from entering America, or dealing much more smartly with China?
You don't know what he means. A smart reporter would have pinned him down a lot more. They didn't.
I wouldn't use this as your argument. It's about as weak as they come.
The context is clearly about healthcare.
From the article:
Trump is also a supporter of universal health care, if not Obamacare.
“I am going to take care of everybody,” Trump said on “60 Minutes” in September. “I don’t care if it costs me votes or not. Everybody’s going to be taken care of much better than they’re taken care of now.”
Trump even praised the single payer health care programs of Canada and Scotland during the first Republican presidential debate in August.
“As far as single payer, it works in Canada, it works incredibly well in Scotland, it could have worked in a different age, which is the age you are talking about here,” Trump said when asked by the moderators about his past support for single payer health care.
Of course Trump would have had to made the strategic decision to position himself to run in 2016 as a Democrat way back in 2010, before he went on his birther kick. You probably can’t win a Democratic primary as one of the leading birthers in the country.