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Donald Trump warned that he also might be a little unpresidential in a battle with Hillary Clinton. | Getty Trump: Acting more presidential would be 'boring as hell'

Donald Trump could be a more presidential candidate as the leader in the Republican primary. But that Trump “would be boring as hell,” he said Monday.

“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 told supporters during a rally in Superior, Wisconsin.

The New York billionaire asked the crowd if he could be “unpresidential” a bit longer and warned that he may be “a little bit unpresidential” in a general election fight against Hillary Clinton.

“We’ll beat Hillary so bad,” he boasted. “Don’t forget, I haven’t started on Hillary yet. I haven’t focused on Hillary yet.”

Trump said his wife, Melania, and daughter, Ivanka, have told him to be more presidential, and he conceded that he will. “But I gotta knock off the final two first, if you don’t mind,” he said. “Right?”

The GOP field has whittled from 17 candidates down to the final three: Trump, Ted Cruz and John Kasich.

“We started off with 17 people and now got two left,” Trump said. “I call them the leftovers, right? I now have two left and we’re way up on both of them.”

Trump gave Cruz some credit for at least having a chance at winning the nomination, compared with Kasich, who has no path to winning it outright. But the real-estate mogul also mocked the Texas senator and bragged about his primary wins.

“I’m killing the guy,” he said, referring to Cruz. “It’s really disgraceful.”