He promised to “bringing back the American dream”, closing the borders to illegal immigrants, lowering taxes, but also “healing the divisions” that afflict the countryto unite America under the banner of “one nation, one people,” and to make the United States “dominant in energy, not just for us” but for the “rest of the world.” In more than an hour and a half of an unusually mild speech, Donald Trump presented his vision of America and the world, accepting “with pride” the nomination as the official candidate for president of the United States for the Republican Party.
If the goal was to show that he had changed, becoming more moderate, Trump achieved it in the first part, and was less successful in the second, when he left more space for brief, more vindictive-toned remarks, in line with his character.. At first many people felt that it meant “you see, I’ve changed,” but then it sounded like “well, I haven’t changed at all.”
Having gone on stage preceded by the notes of «God bless USA», the song that accompanies him at every rally, Trump also provided theatrical moments, such as when He went to kiss Corey Comperatore’s firefighter uniform, brought on stage to remember the veteran firefighter who died in the attack on Trump during the rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday.
The tycoon then invited everyone to a moment of religious reflection. In his first official speech after surviving the attack, Trump also recalled the dramatic moments he experienced on Saturday, when he felt a “strong pain in my ear” and saw his hand full of blood. “But I felt very safe,” he added in a messianic tone, “because I had God by my side.” Some people in the audience had tears in their eyes.
In his message, the former president promised to “heal the divisions” that plague the country, condemned the “criminalization of political disagreement” and asked the Democratic Party to “immediately end the exploitation of the justice system” and to “stop the witch hunts.” He called for unity but then attacked the Democrats, accusing them of “destroying our country.” He did not target Joe Biden personally (who he mentioned only once and then promised not to do so again), but he spoke of “totally incompetent leadership” and accused his opponents of having favored the “invasion of millions of illegal immigrants” who have “sparked crime rates.”
Trump also greeted his vice president, JD Vance, thanked his wife, former first lady Melania for being close to him in the dramatic moment, the rest of the family, praised his son Eric for the speech that preceded the final intervention. The tycoon repeated a passage that is a strong point of his rallies: Under his presidency Russia did not invade Ukraine.
Trump has accredited himself as a man of peace (he assured that we will put an end to all international crises) and greeted his supporters with a “we will win, we will win, we will win”, repeated several times by his supporters too. In the next few hours, as his first act as an official appointee, the tycoon will have a telephone conversation with the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyfirst time in the last three years.
The countdown to Election Day has begun, while we wait to find out who his real challenger will be, now that Joe Biden seems increasingly on the verge of reflecting on his future. His vice president, Kamala Harris, is indicated as the favorite to replace him. Trump avoided naming her, so as not to give her immediate recognition. But if she were to be the one, the relationship would change abruptly, in true Trump style, allergic to moderate tones. He barely kept them under control for an hour and a half, but it is difficult to imagine him doing so for the next three months. This is not what his base wants, and neither does he.
In the final greeting, the tycoon, as mentioned, was joined on stage by the entire family. The first to go up was Melania, who approached him. He tried to give her a kiss on the lips, but she offered him her cheek. For the rest, the finale with a cascade of white, red and blue balloons, the colors of America.
Peace, taxes, energy, illegal invasion, the American dream and borders. These are some of the “key words” with which Donald Trump punctuated his long final speech at the GOP convention, after accepting the nomination to run again for the White House, in a consecration that had its climax when the galvanized audience intoned the chorus “fight, fight, fight”, the same words uttered last Saturday by the tycoon immediately after the attack he suffered.
Trump does not use his usual aggressive tones (“we must not demonize dissent and the enemy”, he says for example), except in very rare moments, but he repeats some concepts over and over again: first of all that of the defense of the borders from the invasion of illegal migrants and promises that the wall with Mexico will be finished. But it is on the greatness of America, which must be restored to its splendor lost with the Biden administration (whom he mentions by name only once), that the former US president insists. “In a few months there will be an incredible victory”, he says before making his race official. He does not shy away from the memory of the attack he suffered and thanks God, because it is only thanks to Him that he is still alive.
And then the key words follow, in the long speech of an hour and a half:
– PRESIDENT OF ALL: I will be the president of everyone, not just half of America, he assures.
– DEMOCRACY: I am here to save American democracy, we will not bend and we will not break
– AMERICAN DREAM: we will make America great again, I will bring back the American dream
– PEACE: we will restore peace in America and the world, we will end every international crisis. I can stop wars with a phone call
-IMMIGRATION: stop the illegal one, we will close the borders. We will do the largest deportation in history and the wall with Mexico will be finished, we will block the invasion
-POWER: stop the green nonsense, we will dominate with our energy. 100% tariffs on foreign cars, everything will be produced only in the USA
-TAXES: Trump returns to promising tax cuts, and huge tax breaks.