Trump's Complete RNC Speech
.........and a little reaction
Tonight, the 2024 Republican National Convention came to a close after a lengthy speech by presidential candidate Donald Trump. In his first major appearance since the attempted assassination, Trump described (perhaps for the only time) what he went through last Saturday — props to Vigilant Fox for creating the clip!
You can watch the entirety of Trump’s 90-minute speech here:
FWIW, I thought it started off strong but sort of faded at the end when Trump fell back into his old habits. I think it would have been more impactful if he had cut it off after an hour…..but I guess he still had an hour’s worth of talking to do from Saturday’s rally.
……….but here’s what MSNBC thinks is important about the speech: (And honestly the reason I’m sending this out tonight instead of working it into tomorrow’s article….)
Can you imagine a political party putting all its chips on one person, instead of explaining how the president is really a team and it doesn’t matter if the executive has an early bedtime?
I know some of you guys watched live, and more of you will watch after the fact — what did you think about the speech?
No recap of the evening is complete without this:
I thought exactly as you do.
And I took a brief look at CNN and MSNBC afterwards--and I mean brief because I certainly don't have an iron stomach--and I thought they were going through the sad usual motions but their hearts weren't in it. They all sounded like defeated people wondering if it was that awful time to begin updating their resumes.
It was too long, but it's like the conventions 4 years ago: Trump was, I bet, doing a very long speech partly in order to show he has energy and stamina that his opponent lacks.