WASHINGTON: Former US President Donald Trump has reiterated “Make America Great Once Again” slogan in a speech accepting his nomination at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
Thursday’s address was Trump’s first public appearance since last Saturday’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, where he narrowly escaped an assassination attempt.
The former president took the stage on the final day of the RNC to share his vision for the future of the United States, in a speech he completely rewrote following the shooting.
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“I’m not supposed to be here tonight… ‘I Had God on My Side.’ I Was in Very Serious Trouble,” Trump said, recalling the details of the assassination attempt, as the audience began chanting, “Yes you are!”
Trump had initially prepared “an extremely tough speech… all about the corrupt” administration of President Joe Biden, but “threw it away” after the assassination attempt. “This is a chance to bring the whole country, even the whole world, together,” he explained in an interview with the New York Post on Sunday.
Trump’s running mate, Ohio Senator J.D. Vance, addressed the RNC the night before, officially accepting the vice-presidential nomination.
During the half-hour speech, the lawmaker and Marine Corps veteran criticized Biden for backing trade deals that “destroyed” American manufacturing jobs and supporting the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, promising that a second Trump administration would only send American troops to war when absolutely necessary.
