Trump delivered a 70-minute speech, second-longest in the history of conventions behind only his 2016 speech, targeting former Vice President Joe Biden in some of his harshest and misleading terms yet.
The evening’s speakers included President Donald Trump, his daughter Ivanka and former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani.
The president delivered what at times felt like a Frankenstein speech, fluctuating between what seemed in the style of a State of the Union address and then what you'd hear at a standard Trump rally.During his speech, Trump was at times speaking over screaming sirens and protesters just outside the White House calling for racial justice, a piece of reality creeping into a speech at times designed to use the unrest in the streets of Trump's America against Biden.
"If you give power to Joe Biden, the radical left will Defund Police Departments all across America," the president said."They will make every city look like Democrat-run Portland, Oregon. No one will be safe in Biden's America," Trump said, as an effort to try and pin mass unrest breaking out under his own presidency to Biden, who hasn't been in office in nearly four years.
In another example of the president trying to reframe the reality of the moment gripping the nation, Trump looked to re-write the history of his administration's coronavirus response, which experts have said resulted in aresponse to the worst pandemic in a century, painting the crisis in unrealistic rosy terms despite the country having well over 5 million cases and nearly 180,00 Americans dead.
"As one nation, we mourn, we grieve and we hold in our hearts forever the memories of all of those lives that have been so tragically taken, so unnecessary. In their honor, we will unite in their memory. We will overcome.
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