--- title: Donald Trump Has 'No Reason' to Change, Top Adviser Says description: A Donald Trump aide said the presumptive GOP presidential candidate didn’t have to do anything differently to win the general election canonical: https://time.com/4336452/donald-trump-paul-manafort-no-reason-change/ author: Melissa Chan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-05-15T14:54:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-31T09:37:34.214Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump Has 'No Reason' to Change, Top Adviser Says og:description: "There's no reason for Donald Trump to change" og:url: https://time.com/4336452/donald-trump-paul-manafort-no-reason-change/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt96c1180267df9c52/69889338bc6cfc7ccd3dcfc4/donald-trump-manafort.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: US-ELECTION-TRUMP og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump Has 'No Reason' to Change, Top Adviser Says twitter:description: "There's no reason for Donald Trump to change" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt96c1180267df9c52/69889338bc6cfc7ccd3dcfc4/donald-trump-manafort.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump Has 'No Reason' to Change, Top Adviser Says  by [Melissa Chan](https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan May 15, 2016 2:54 PM UTC  Donald Trump addresses the audience in Eugene, Oregon on May 6, 2016. Donald Trump addresses the audience in Eugene, Oregon on May 6, 2016.ROB KERR—AFP/Getty Images  by [Melissa Chan](https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan May 15, 2016 2:54 PM UTC One of Donald Trump’s top aides on Sunday said the presumptive Republican presidential candidate [didn’t have to do anything differently](http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/15/politics/donald-trump-paul-manafort-john-miller/index.html) to win the general election. [Paul Manafort](http://time.com/4287819/donald-trump-aide-ted-cruz-gestapo/?iid=sr-link1), the candidate’s convention manager, told CNN’s Jake Tapper on _State of the Union_ that Trump wasn’t pressured by Speaker Paul Ryan to act more presidential during their meeting on Thursday. “There’s no reason for Donald Trump to change,” Manafort said. The Trump adviser also defended the real estate mogul after a report surfaced that Trump has [posed as his own spokesperson](http://time.com/4329561/donald-trump-john-miller-john-barron-publicist-1991-phone-call/?iid=sr-link1) in the past by using fake names. “I can’t tell who it is. He says it’s not him, I believe him,” Manafort said. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4336452/donald-trump-paul-manafort-no-reason-change/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4336452/donald-trump-paul-manafort-no-reason-change/"},"headline":"Donald Trump Has 'No Reason' to Change, Top Adviser Says","datePublished":"2016-05-15T14:54:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T09:37:34.214Z","description":"\"There's no reason for Donald Trump to change\"","url":"https://time.com/4336452/donald-trump-paul-manafort-no-reason-change/","keywords":["Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt96c1180267df9c52/69889338bc6cfc7ccd3dcfc4/donald-trump-manafort.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Chan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt96c1180267df9c52/69889338bc6cfc7ccd3dcfc4/donald-trump-manafort.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-ELECTION-TRUMP","caption":"US-ELECTION-TRUMP","creditText":"ROB KERR—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4336452/donald-trump-paul-manafort-no-reason-change/","name":"Donald Trump Has 'No Reason' to Change, Top Adviser Says"}}]}] ```