Here are Trump's exact words. You can read many things into them, but they truly are utter nonsense. It's a classic case of people hearing what they want to hear:
"Well, I can say this. If the president, and if I were president now, I would certainly want to try and nominate a justice. I'm sure that, frankly, I'm absolutely sure that President Obama will try and do it. I hope that our Senate is going to be able - Mitch, and the entire group, is going to be able to do something about it. In times of delay, we could have a Diane Sykes, or you could have a Bill Pryor - we have some fantastic people. But this is a tremendous blow to conservatism. It's a tremendous blow, frankly, to our country.
Yes, those are his exact words. Two actual people he floated, versus “Just Trust Me” Ted Cruz who offered up a great big zero names.
People see what they want to see, indeed.