Last updated on July 18th, 2023 at 12:09 pm
Trump’s Republican nomination acceptance speech laid out no vision, and dodged the real issues, as Trump sounded tired and lifeless.
Trump tried to take credit for the reduced death toll of Hurricane Laura:
Trump claimed that his border wall is almost done when it has barely started:
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Trump claimed that the wall is almost completed. (It's not.) pic.twitter.com/ijuWIZzJu7
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) August 28, 2020
Trump lied and claimed that he passed VA Choice, which Obama passed:
Trump falsely claims that he passed VA Choice, which was passed by Obama. pic.twitter.com/8j4UCmTbED
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) August 28, 2020
As Trump crashes the economy with a recession and a pandemic, he claims that Biden will kill jobs:
In the middle of a pandemic and a recession, Trump claims that Joe Biden is going to destroy American jobs and greatness, as his speech hits delusional highs. pic.twitter.com/toTbHt7ECx
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) August 28, 2020
The speech was shocking for how dull and boring it was.
Trump laid out no vision for the future and tried to lay out a list of accomplishments that weren’t really accomplishments.
The speech was a greatest hits collection of Trump’s lies, but what was missing from the speech that Trump had in 2016 was energy.
When Trump tried to attack Biden, it was passionless and did not land:
Trump spent two minutes weakly attacking Biden with blows that didn't land and seemed out of touch. pic.twitter.com/UzQqxJPaxy
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) August 28, 2020
Trump even tried to claim that Biden is trojan horse for socialism:
Trump calls Joe Biden a trojan horse for socialism, which is the dumbest attack he could possibly make, pic.twitter.com/B8wCQnB3GH
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) August 28, 2020
Trump couldn’t define Biden. He couldn’t settle on whether the speech was a list of accomplishments, a fear campaign, or an attack on Joe Biden, but one common of the entire speech was the lack of intensity.
Republicans were hoping that Trump would find his energy and get inspired by the campaign once he had an opponent, but Trump sounded detached and disinterested.
Trump sounds beaten, and his speech, where the campaign had to trot out guest stars to get him through the address, made it clear that the real winner at the Republican convention was Joe Biden.
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Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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