Trump’s RNC speech in 60 seconds

Donald Trump accepted his third straight Republican nomination on Thursday by wrapping a fresh gesture toward unity around the same dark view of American decline and loathing for his political opponents and immigrants that have defined his nine-year political career and transformed the GOP.

The former president dramatically recounted the experience of narrowly missing a would-be assassin’s bullet five days ago, and he opened and concluded with calls for Americans to set aside the rancorous partisan divisions he has played no small role in stoking.

In between, he rehearsed his usual themes of framing this election in catastrophic terms, characterizing the current state of affairs with doom and destruction. Trump also used the banner of unity to return to form in assailing the criminal cases against him, saying the prosecutors should drop the charges and Democrats should stop calling him a threat to democracy.

He invited Democrats, independents and minorities to join his cause, positioning the entire citizenry as shared victims of failed leadership and foreigners. He returned to his refrain of vilifying undocumented immigrants as dangerous, describing them without evidence as criminals and mentally ill. Within half an hour, the speech started resembling a typical rally, with ad-libbed shout-outs to VIPs and railing against subpoenas and former House speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).

Caption from reporting by Isaac Arnsdorf and Josh Dawsey.

[DaveJorgenson]

The speech was over an hour and a half. The longest in convention history. Editing this under a minute was near impossible, please clap.

[circaOO]

"The 10 worst presidents combined have done less damage than Biden" idk that Buchanan guy seemed kinda shitty

[GooseEnthused]

I mean it’s unsurprising but I cannot emphasize enough how “men playing in women’s sports” was a complete non sequitur. He was talking about how the US will find the cure for cancer and Alzheimer’s under his presidency (idk man). Periodically when he thinks the audience is cooling down he just throws out a sentence or two of some culture war nonsense and then goes back to talking about “unity”. What a guy

[Twilor]

Him saying "I am trying to buy your vote" does not sit right with me

[moomie]

"The left needs to cool down the rhetoric"

5 min later:
"IF YOU ADDED UP THE 10 WORST PRESIDENTS, THEY WOULD STILL BE BETTER THAN BIDEN"

[henrywright]

You forgot the "hundreds of thousands" comment. Insane overstatement

[sherrieschmidt]

It’d be nice if tipping wasn’t a thing at all.

[ozaru]

"I am trying to buy your vote." Yes - this is the problem.

[Bean_Marine]

“Thank you to the extraordinary people of Milwaukee” coming from the guy who said the city was horrible. Another lie from this felon

[thatdude]

Sometimes I forget just how unintelligent Trump is

[madcat]

Man, you crushed an hour into a minute. That's one minute every second. Amazing.

[JenN.]

The mental gymnastics needed to blame Biden for covid is crazy.

[nickbrick]

We did he walk out like he was in WWE Smackdown 💀

[leonestello]

P.S. 🚩It took him 10 minutes of talking about himself being saved by Divine intervention until he finally brought up the Man who was shot 🚩

[antyxwg]

I haven’t cared enough to see footage of Trump nowadays, but seeing him like this, it shocks me how much people like to call Biden old when Trump looks equally like a soggy bandage.

Aight y’all needa shut up. If you’re gonna talk about mental capability, talk about mental capability. I mentioned nothing of the sort, just that they both look old. And they are. Trump is only 3 years younger than Biden, and it shows.

[aub]

buzzword salad! he's genuinely got the cult leader rhetoric down pretty strong.

[GrizzleyBruin]

"I am trying to buy your vote" which automatically means that not a cent of his personal wealth went into this convention.

[ODSTklecc]

"Give us your vote! I am trying to buy your vote!" Lol

[Joonarules]

Did you notice? Trump mentioned one of the few Top 10 lists he tops

[deadlyknights]

Biden’s not the worst president, there’s just too many terrible contenders. Woodrow Wilson, James Buccannan, Andrew Jackson, and Nixon. All these presidents have done created far more damaging policy. As a figurehead, Biden is terrible, but the policy is actually not the worst.