Although I really don’t like some parts of the platform and think conservatives should resist it and demand revisions to it, I agree with Donald Trump that the old platform style was too long, and produced a prolix text that became meaningless.
Trump may well talk all the way through the Democratic convention in Chicago.
A very odd convention speech. After a stirring narration of his surviving the assassination attempt, he’s giving a standard off-the-cuff sounding rally speech only with less fire and brimstone.
“On the wall we were dealing with a very difficult Congress,” Trump said. In 2019, he attempted to declare a national emergency to shift unappropriated funds to the wall, but the scheme fell through amid a bipartisan revolt in the Senate.
After a fantastic start, Donald Trump has devolved into James Austin Johnson’s impression of him on Saturday Night Live.
If you tuned in expecting a speech that would support the Democrats’ “Trump is Hitler” narrative, you had to be pretty disappointed at how sedated this is. He just raised his voice a little talking about Iran, just for a moment, and it was the first time.
“I will end every single international crisis that the current administration has created,” Trump says, including the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. Details to follow.
“On the wall we were dealing with a very difficult Congress,” says Trump of the last time his party controlled both Houses.
Now he’s getting to a pretty rushed list of promises for next time. I did like the mention of the record stock market during his previous term. Not all Republicans have turned their backs on Wall Street.
@mdougherty and @rponnuru it seems criticism of the bosses vs. agents is a class-conflict play similar to blaming officers and sparing the enlisted or vice versa.