Trump: I’d Make Miss Universe Runner up a Co-Winner

LAUER: "We asked Donald Trump to stick around, because Donald, as most people know, you used to own the Miss Universe Pageant, and you tweeted this just a couple moments ago:'Very sad what happened last night at the Miss Universe Pageant. I sold it six month ago for a record price. This would have never happened.' What's your reaction to this?"
TRUMP: 'Well, it was something I guess that can happen. Steve Harvey is a great guy. I like the way he got out and did it. It certainly was a terrible error, terrible for the young woman from Colombia. But, you know, things happen. It's live television, and, you know, the new owners are tremendous people, and frankly I feel, you know, I owned it for 15 years, and sold it for -- and they gave me so much. I said come on, we have to make this. Everyone said you have to do something."
LAUER: "If you still owned it and you were sitting there as this happened, what would Donald Trump have done?"
TRUMP: "-- And I know they will be calling me today. They already got a call scheduled. What would I do? I'll tell you what I think I would do. I would make them a co-winner, it would very cool. Make them a co-winner because what happened to the girl from Colombia is devastating, to give it to her for a couple minutes and take it away. And you have a whole country. You know, last year we had a young woman also from Colombia, the entire country, I mean, they took like a vacation for about a week, the whole country was wild, so you can imagine what happened. I would say this. I would recommend that they go and have a beautiful ceremony which is good for the brand and miss universe and do a co-winner, and I think something like that could work maybe. But it was a tough evening. And you know what? Steve Harvey is a terrific guy and things like this do happen."