“I was going to hit a number of those speakers so hard, their heads would spin. They’d never recover,” Trump said at a rally. | Getty Trump had attacks planned on his DNC critics 'I was going to hit this guy so hard his head would spin, he wouldn’t know what the hell happened.'

Donald Trump was ready to unload on each and every Democrat who has attacked him at the Democratic National Convention, that is until an unnamed Republican governor called the Manhattan billionaire to talk him out of it.

Trump told the crowd at a rally in Davenport, Iowa, that he’d watched the Philadelphia convention and paid close attention to all that had been said about him. The Republican nominee said he was ready to launch counterattacks on each and every speaker who disparaged him


“I mean, the things that were said about me,” Trump said of the Democratic Convention. “I mean, should I go through some of the names. You know what? I wanted to. I wanted hit a couple of those speakers so hard. I was going to hit them. I was all set.”

But Trump told the crowd he reversed course after talking to a “highly-respected governor” who went unnamed at the rally. That governor, Trump said, talked him out of it and urged him instead to “just go out and hit Hillary Clinton properly and win the election.”

The Republican nominee seemed unable to help himself though from taking a few digs at his fellow New Yorkers Michael Bloomberg and Bill de Blasio. Of Bloomberg, Trump said, “I was going to hit one guy in particular, a very little guy. I was going to hit this guy so hard his head would spin, he wouldn’t know what the hell happened.”

He went on to say that former New York City mayor’s attack on Trump “came out of nowhere,” and alluded to deals the two had made when Bloomberg was in office. The Manhattan billionaire was more explicit in his attack on de Blasio, backing into an attack on the current New York mayor.

“I was going to say that de Blasio is the worst mayor in the history of the city, but I wouldn’t say it,” Trump said. “He’s a terrible mayor. Probably won’t be there too long because he’s got problems like you wouldn’t believe. But he’s a terrible mayor. But I was going to say that, but now I won’t say it.”

In his recounting of the conversation with the unnamed governor, Trump said he wanted to go after those who had attacked him because “really, it makes me feel good.” Instead, Trump said the governor urged him to focus his attacks on the only opponent he has left, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

“I was going to hit a number of those speakers so hard, their heads would spin. They’d never recover,” Trump said, before relaying the message the governor had given him. “Don’t worry about all these people that want to get up and get the spotlight for five minutes, and then they’re going to go home and nobody’s going to care about them anymore. Just go out and hit Hillary Clinton properly and win the election Nov. 8.”