The one virtue of the speech continuing past its very effective opening is that it showed Donald J. Trump has the stamina and wherewithal, even after being shot, to stand up and speak mostly extemporaneously for 92 minutes, whereas Joe Biden cannot go 90 minute without senior members of his party dropping another anvil on him in the press.
Milwaukee — Dayvin Hallmon and his Black String Triage Ensemble go to the locations of shootings in the direct aftermath and play compositions in an effort to calm and soothe those affected and observing. The ensemble played a block from the RNC on Thursday night as part of the Village Church’s outreach. Dayvin reads National Review and The Nation.
Yes, it was much much too long–but that’s not going to matter. Normal people who thought it was dragging just turned it off.
That was a masterful speech for about ten minutes. And then it went on for another hour and 22 minutes.
I could have been halfway through “Barry Lyndon” by now.
Okay, now I want to see the television ratings and audience size, broken down by half-hour. When did most viewers bail?
“Mr. Trump, we’re up against the deadline in our deal with the Fiserv Forum.”
One of the best lines comes near midnight: “And to the entire world, we want our hostages back — and they better be back before I assume office, or you will be paying a very big price.”
You’re supposed to leave them wanting more…
Trump is wrong. There was no 18-month period during his presidency in which there were no U.S. deaths in Afghanistan. If Joe Biden deserves all the grief he has received for insisting there were “no deaths” on his watch, Trump deserves the same opprobrium.