Donald Trump speaks at a rally at the Nugget Feb. 23, 2016, in Sparks, Nevada. | Getty Trump plans to remind voters of his past campaign controversies

For months, Donald Trump's opponents in both the Democratic and Republican parties have attempted to use his own words against him in an attempt to strike down his candidacy.

With Trump now the presumptive GOP nominee, they have failed. And Trump would now appear eager to expound upon his past statements to fully account why, for example, he decided to say that Fox News' Megyn Kelly "had blood coming out of her wherever" or why he appeared to mock a journalist's physical disability at a rally last year.


"I may explain this stuff during speeches," Trump told The Washington Post in an interview conducted Monday and published Tuesday. “It may be old news, it may not be old news, but I’m just telling you.”

It would certainly not be the first time Trump has attempted to clarify his past statements in the face of controversy. During the Post interview, Trump remarked of the Kelly incident, “When that narrative started, I said, ‘You’ve got to be kidding.’ Who would even think of that?” Trump said. “I said ‘wherever’ — ears, nose. I wasn’t even thinking about the other.” Last August, Trump explained on Twitter that he had not finished his thought and meant to say "her nose."

The Post reported that Trump, unprompted, launched into a "five-minute soliloquy" in which he attempted to explain his arm gestures at a rally last November that were interpreted as demeaning toward New York Times journalist Serge Kovaleski, who had cast doubt upon the candidate's claims about Muslims in New Jersey celebrating the 9/11 attacks.

“I would never say anything bad about a person that has a disability,” Trump told the Post. “I swear to you it’s true, 100 percent true. ... Who would do that to [the] handicapped? I’ve spent a lot of money making buildings accessible.”

Trump indicated to the Post that he was rather attempting to imitate someone who was groveling. "Now, is that a believable story?" he asked. In a statement last November, Trump sounded a similar note writing, "I merely mimicked what I thought would be a flustered reporter trying to get out of a statement he made long ago.”