Donald Trump is not planning to speak all three days of the Republican National Convention, but he wants you to know that such a move would have gotten high ratings.
“What they’ve asked me to do is to speak all three nights. I turned it down,” Trump told the New York Times in an interview published Friday morning, adding that “everybody” wants him to speak more.
“I don’t want people to think I’m grandstanding — which I’m not,” he continued. “But it would get high ratings.”
Trump also indicated that he won’t mix up the convention format very much and that he plans to stay “on message.”
“There’s a lot of sameness in conventions,” he told the Times. “At the same time you don’t necessarily want to reinvent the wheel. You don’t want to make it so different that it’s no longer a convention.”
But he did reject the initial drawings of the stage he will speak on in Cleveland.
“I didn’t like the shape,” he told the Times. “Too straight. Too nothing. Didn’t have the drama.”
