Tag: 2020 RNC

Here are 5 accidentally revealing lines from Trump supporters at the RNC

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Unsurprisingly, the Republican National Convention was filled with lies about President Donald Trump, his administration, the Republican Party, and the Democrats. But on occasion, the speakers slipped some truth into their speeches.

And on some of those occasions, the truth seemed to come out unintentionally. Or at least, the speaker’s wording left open the possibility of interpreting it quite differently than was intended.

Here are five claims from RNC speakers that were accidentally revealing: Continue reading.

Trump Asked For A Chance To Fix America’s “Chaos” In 2016. He’s Asking For The Same After Four Years As President.

The president and many of the Republicans who spoke at this week’s RNC detailed America’s major cities as drowning in violence, but placed blame elsewhere.

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump said America was a mess in 2016 and four years later, running for reelection as president, he has the same message: America is a mess.

In his speech accepting the Republican presidential nomination on the final night of the party’s convention Thursday, Trump described a country that, while overcoming some challenges, is still facing chaos and “mayhem” across its major cities. Republicans who spoke before Trump, both on Thursday night and in the days before, described “mobs” taking over cities and censoring Americans’ speech and law enforcement officers in constant danger. It’s the very thing Trump pledged to rid the country of four years ago when he accepted the Republican presidential nomination in Cleveland, promising the restoration of “law and order.”

“Nobody knows the system better than me,” he said then of America’s “rigged” politics, “which is why I alone can fix it.” Continue reading.

Mary Trump says GOP convention ‘disturbing to watch,’ calls portrayal of preside

The president’s niece said on MSNBC that she was appalled to see her uncle described as a caring family man.

President Donald Trump’s wife and children spoke on the first three nights of the Republican National Convention — and his niece showed up for the grand finale.

Mary Trump, who wrote a devastating best-selling tell-all book about the president and his family, joined an MSNBC panel for the final night of the convention, where she mocked its portrayal of the president as a solid family man.

“The idea of passing him off like a great family man is like trying to pass him off as a great businessman,” Trump said. Continue reading.

Dull, Demagogic, And Far Too Long: Trump Delivers Closing Convention Speech

He’s been on the job for almost four years, but President Donald Trump still hasn’t figured out how to read properly from a teleprompter.

On Thursday night, Trump delivered the final speech of the Republican National Convention, officially accepting his party’s nomination to face off against Democratic opponent Joe Biden. But while Biden’s closing speech the week before surprised viewers by portraying the candidate as a dynamic, thoughtful, and expressive speaker — arguably even outshining the star power brought by the Obamas in previous nights — Trump’s performance was just another half-hearted and labored effort at getting through a text someone else wrote.

Trump is known for his extemporaneous speaking style. He’s often longwinded and meandering, jumping from topic to topic without finishing a whole arguments, sentences, and thoughts. But when he speaks like this, he’s almost always animated and passionate. The exception is when he’s reading from a script. Teleprompter Trump has none of the manic charisma that his freewheeling alter-ego displays. Instead, the president falls into a dull monotone and a repetitious speaking pattern that suggests he knows little about what he’s actually saying and cares even less. Continue reading.

Newly-Sworn In Citizens from Trump’s WH Naturalization Ceremony Weren’t Told About Being Part of RNC Convention

Two of the immigrants sworn in as new U.S. citizens during the second night of the Republican National Committee convention were only told of President Donald Trump’s involvement at the last minute and were never informed beforehand that their ceremony would be aired as part of the party’s campaign festivities.

According to the Wall Street Journal, two women from the group of five, Indian immigrant Sudha Narayanan and Sudanese immigrant Neimat Awadelseid, were not aware their naturalization ceremony at the White House was to be part of the RNC’s partisan celebration of Trump. The Journal was not able to contact the other three new citizens participating the ceremony.

“Ms. Narayanan and Ms. Awadelseid said they didn’t mind being featured in the convention, saying in interviews Wednesday that they were still celebrating their newly granted citizenship,” the story notes. “”Ms. Awadelseid, 66 years old, a Sudanese immigrant and a substitute teacher, said she remembers signing a media release form, but doesn’t remember being told about the Republican convention.” Continue reading.

Republicans are lying about Biden and hoping voters are ignorant enough to believe them

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TRAILING IN the polls, and with no tangible agenda for a second term, President Trump is doing his best to tear down Democratic nominee Joe Biden. That’s hardly an unprecedented strategy, and some of the policy-based arguments being advanced by speakers at the Republican National Convention this week fall within the normal bounds of campaign debate, even if some of the hyperbole is beyond those bounds. Mr. Biden, it’s said, will be controlled by the Democratic left; he will raise taxes; he will be too soft on China.

There is another strand of the attacks, however, that is as depraved as it is scurrilous. The Trump campaign is attempting to portray Mr. Biden and his family as neck-deep in corruption, based on allegations that have repeatedly been demonstrated to be false. In effect, the Republicans accuse the former vice president of secretly doing what Mr. Trump has accomplished overtly during the past three years — using his office to enrich himself and his family.

Leading the GOP charge on Tuesday was Pam Bondi, a former Florida attorney general who in 2013 received a $25,000 contribution from a Trump charity six days after her office said it was looking into fraud charges against Trump University. The investigation did not go forward. Incredibly, Ms. Bondi opened her case against Mr. Biden by repeating the lie that led to Mr. Trump’s impeachment: that Mr. Biden demanded the firing of a Ukrainian prosecutor who was investigating a gas company that employed the then-vice president’s son Hunter.

RNC Video Showing Rioters In “Biden’s America” Is Actually Spain

The video is part of a pattern of Trump and his supporters portraying BLM protests as violent.

On the first night of the Republican National Convention, the party aired a segment featuring Catalina and Madeline Lauf warning of dire consequences if Democratic candidate Joe Biden is elected president.

“This is a taste of Biden’s America,” one sister says in a voiceover as images of protests play onscreen. “The rioting, the crime. Freedom is at stake now and this is going to be the most important election of our lifetime.”

The problem is that one of the images in the segment doesn’t show the US at all — it shows Spain. Continue reading.

‘RESOVLVED’: The Zoom Kool-Aid Convention

“I mean say what you want about the tenets of national socialism dude, at least it’s an ethos.” – Walter Sobchak 

The Republican Party is a cult in service of Donald Trump’s whims and its only stated principle is that the media is mean to them and whatever the Democrats are for is bad. May it be Resovlved.

This simple summation of the state of the GOP is pretty obvious to those of us who are on the outs with the Trumpian establishment. But it is rather jarring to see the national committee itself just..tweet it out..and make it the new official platform of the party.

Generally, when one’s organization is bereft of ideas or values or solutions, they call in the PR pros to paper it over with some high-falutin rhetoric or newfangled buzzwords to at least present the illusion that there is something more behind the curtain. Continue reading.

The Memo: GOP seeks to detoxify Trump at convention

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Donald Trump isn’t a racist, a sexist or a xenophobe.

At least, that was the message that was written between the lines on the second night of the Republican National Convention on Tuesday.

The GOP is having to spend a lot of time trying to prove what Trump isn’t — an effort that tells its own story about negative perceptions of the president and the degree to which he is languishing in the polls.

Tuesday night’s programming featured an early tribute to Trump from Jon Ponder, a Black man who was convicted of bank robbery before reforming his life and founding an organization to help rehabilitate ex-prisoners. Trump pardoned Ponder before the cameras at the White House. Continue reading