http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/277400-trump-im-not-going-start-toning-it-downApril 23, 2016, 04:17 pm
Trump: I’m not going start 'toning it down'
By Caitlin Yilek
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump told his supporters he doesn’t plan to start “toning it down” as the race for the White House nears the GOP convention.
“You know, being presidential’s easy — much easier than what I have to do,” Trump said at a campaign rally Saturday in Bridgeport, Conn. “Here, I have to rant and rave. I have to keep people going. Otherwise you’re going to fall asleep on me, right?”
That message contradicts the one Trump’s chief strategist Paul Manafort told top Republican officials on Thursday.
“The part that he’s been playing is now evolving into the part that you’ve been expecting,” Manafort told Republican National Committee (RNC) members at the party’s spring meeting in Hollywood, Fla.
Trump appears to be pushing back.
“If I acted presidential, I can guarantee you this morning I wouldn’t be here,” Trump said earlier Saturday in Waterbury, Conn.
“I sort of don’t like toning it down,” Trump added. “Isn’t it nice that I’m not one of these teleprompter guys?”