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Donald Trump said Wednesday that he would "have to get used to a lot of" Hillary Clinton shouting as the campaign moves towards the general election. | AP Photo Trump: I guess I'll have to get used to Clinton's 'shouting'

Turning his attention toward the general election on Wednesday, Donald Trump defended his line that the only thing Hillary Clinton has going for her is "playing the woman card," remarking that the former secretary of state would be doing worse if she were not a woman.

"She's playing the woman card left and right," Trump said on CNN's "New Day," adding, "She didn't play it last time with Obama but she's playing it much harder this time, and she will be called on it. Absolutely."

Asked by CNN's Chris Cuomo how one calls someone on being a woman, Trump responded, "You just tell them they're playing the woman's card."

"What does that mean?" Cuomo followed up.

Trump said that if she were not playing that card, "frankly ... she would be doing poorly."

Asked how he knew that, Trump replied simply, "I know it. If she was a man and she was the way she is she would get virtually no votes."

Appearing minutes later on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Trump responded to a clip of Clinton addressing her supporters in Philadelphia on Tuesday night in which she said, "if fighting for women’s health care and paid family leave and equal pay is playing the woman card, then deal me in.”

Trump said that he was still "recovering" from Clinton's "shouting."

"I know a lot of people would say you can't say that about a woman, because of course a woman doesn't shout," Trump said. "The way she shouted that message was not -- that's the way she said it, and I guess I'll have to get used to a lot of that over the next four or five months."