It is right there. He clearly intends to raise the federal minimum wage or mislead people into thinking he will. Was going for the more charitable explanation.
You're confused. Nowhere in his statements has he said he wants to raise the minimum wage.
“I am open to doing something with it, because I don’t like that,” Trump told CNN on Wednesday after being asked if he thought the $7.25 minimum wage should be increased.
Trump added that “you have to have something that you can live on” and that his willingness to entertain a wage increase showed he was “very different from most Republicans.”