Donald Trump Fumes: ‘I Wanted To Hit A Couple’ Of Those DNC Speakers So Hard! (VIDEO)

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a town hall, Monday, July 25, 2016, in Roanoke, Va. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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When Donald Trump tuned in to the Democratic National Convention this week, he was not a fan of what he heard.

Trump said Thursday at a rally in Davenport, Iowa that he was so enraged by some of the speakers’ comments about him that he wanted to “hit them.”

“You know what I wanted to. I wanted to hit a couple of those speakers so hard,” Trump said. “I would have hit them. No, no. I was going to hit them, I was all set and then I got a call from a highly respected governor.”

The Republican nominee didn’t name the speakers that displeased him so, but he did target one “very little guy.”

“I was gonna hit one guy in particular, a very little guy,” he told ABC News. “I was gonna hit this guy so hard his head would spin and he wouldn’t know what the hell happened.”

This is a callback to some of Trump’s less presidential behavior, including voicing a desire to rough up protestors at his rallies.

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  1. Yeah, you would go after “the little guy,” wouldn’t you?

  2. I thought earlier he said he didn’t take it personally since it was just politics

  3. Please continue, Donald.

  4. Thank god, he’s finally pivoting. Presidential!

  5. Of course I’m sure he’s just being “sarcastic”.

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