“No, I’m not softening my stance at all, but I’m always flexible on issues,” Mr. Trumpsaid on NBC’s “Today” program. “I am totally flexible on very, very many issues, and I think you have to be that way.”

“But I’m not softening my stance,” he said. “We have a major problem and we have to look at the problem. We have to solve the problem.”

In an interview this week on Fox News Radio’s “Kilmeade and Friends,” Mr. Trump had called the temporary ban “just a suggestion until we find out what’s going on.”

“Well, I’m not the president right now so anything I suggest is really a suggestion, and if I were president, I’d put in legislation and do what I have to do,” Mr. Trump said Friday.