Donald Trump thinks acting presidential would be 'boring as hell'

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump doesn't mind that he's not acting all that presidential. In fact, he thinks that's what's helping him in the race, he told supporters in Superior, Wisconsin, on Monday, Talking Points Memo reports.

“I can be presidential, but if I was presidential I would only have — about 20 percent of you would be here because it would be boring as hell, I will say," Trump said.

He also made it clear he plans to stick around for the general election.

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"Let me be unpresidential just for a little while longer, and maybe I'll be a little bit unpresidential as I beat Hillary, because, ugh,” Trump said. "Don't forget, I haven't started on Hillary yet."