Donald Trump insisted on Thursday that he wants to be “presidential,” especially at the urging of his wife Melania, but said it’s not so easy when everyone is attacking him.
“My wife called just before and she said, ‘Darling will you please react presidentially? Be presidential. Like you were the other night when you had all those victories. You stood on the stage and everybody liked it,'” Trump relayed to a crowd in Portland, Maine, referring to his Super Tuesday victory speech.
“I said, ‘Yeah, but I have incoming,'” Trump told the crowd. “When you have incoming, you can’t be too presidential. Right? Does that make sense?”
“I said, ‘But I have incoming,'” Trump repeated as the crowd laughed. “There’s a lot of truth to that.”
“I’ll act presidential, but if somebody hits me, I’m going to hit them back,” Trump declared. “I’m going to hit them back harder.”
