Donald Trump's comments contradict what's currently in his plan. | Getty Trump: My tax plan is negotiable

Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump said in an interview aired Sunday his tax plan was negotiable, explaining that taxes for the wealthy needed to “go up” — a stance that appears to contradict what’s in his plan.

“For the wealthy, I think, frankly, it's going to go up. And you know what, it really should go up,” Trump said on NBC News’ “Meet the Press.”


His said his tax plan, which would lower tax rates for the wealthiest Americans, would be the opening bid of a negotiation with Congress and that his numbers were a “floor.”

“I have to negotiate now with senators and congressmen and lots of -- the fact that I put in a plan, it really is a floor,” he said. “That's what it is. Whether we like it or not.

“We lower the number of brackets,” he continued. “We lower the taxes on the middle class, on business. And we lower the taxes on everybody, very substantially. But I have no illusions. I don't think that's going to be the final plan. Because they are going to come to me, including the Democrats and everybody else, they're going to come to me. They're going to want to negotiate.”