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What A Day: Sulk Hogan

Professional wrestler Hulk Hogan speaks during the final day of the Republican National Convention Thursday, July 18, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

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Professional wrestler Hulk Hogan speaks during the final day of the Republican National Convention Thursday, July 18, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

RAMBLIN’ MAN

Trump’s much-hyped “unity convention” was supposed to show off his brand new, inclusive style. Instead, it revealed a man unable to transcend his grievances — and a beatable candidate.
  • The reviews are in for disgraced former President Trump’s so-called unity speech at the Republican National Convention, and they’re not great. Trump’s advisors had hyped this moment in the wake of his botched assassination attempt as the debut of Donald Trump 2.0, the spiritually enhanced version, transformed after his brush with death. Trump won’t even mention Biden’s name, they breathlessly promised. Wow, such unity! The archduke of right-wing media bullshit, Tucker Carlson, insisted Trump had truly transformed. “Getting shot in the face changes a man,” he said. And yet, as Trump’s meandered for 93 minutes, the facade collapsed on live TV as Trump drifted off his teleprompter speech into his typical bizarre, self-aggrandizing, grievance-fueled tropes.
  • Like the middle-aged cover band that gigged the RNC, Trump began playing his worn-out hits. He brought up the “late, great Hannibal Lecter.” He waxed lovingly about his old buddy, the bloodthirsty North Korean dictator Kim Jong un. He called former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “crazy Nancy.” He insisted, falsely, that he’s the one fighting for democracy, when in fact he was criminally indicted over his efforts to steal the 2020 presidential election. He praised Hungarian strongman Viktor Orbán. He couldn’t even stop himself from name-dropping Biden, despite his campaign’s promise.
  • The result was “a meandering speech that resembled his usual rallies with macabre descriptions of a nation in decline,” wrote Politico. “The speech wrapped a fresh gesture toward unity around his usual dark view of American decline and loathing for political opponents and immigrants,” wrote the Washington Post. “I give his speech a D,” one undecided voter told a CNN focus group. “It just totally contradicted itself in terms of what he wanted to achieve with unity.” Another noted: “His rhetoric hasn’t changed.”

The speech showed just how vulnerable Trump still is.

  • “Look at that guy on stage last night,” urged Dan Pfeiffer, co-host of Pod Save America, in his Message Box column. “The speech wasn’t good. It didn’t offer a compelling vision for the country. It was low energy, bordering on somnambulant. Trump couldn’t discuss his policy agenda because that would stick a thumb in the eye of most voters. There was no message.”
  • Trump has tapped a vein of nostalgia for his presidency. But like a hyped-up sales pitch for Trump Steaks, it’s all puff and over-promise, a fistful of razzamatazz. Trump surrogates like to ask whether we’re better off now than we were four years ago — as if they’ve forgotten that, four years ago, we couldn’t find toilet paper. Today the economy is growing, the inflation rate has fallen dramatically, drug overdose deaths have declined. Trump played a decisive role in overturning Roe v. Wade, and then tried to cover up the GOP position on reproductive rights by scrubbing it out of the Republican Party platform. None of these facts were changed by the endorsement Trump won on Thursday night from, of all people, Hulk Hogan.

Trump is hardly unstoppable. The question now is whether Democrats can seize the opportunity.

- NBC Reporter Garret Haake on the RNC reaction to Trump’s meandering 93-minute acceptance speech.

NEWSNEWSNEWS

  • Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle is set to testify before the House Oversight Committee on Monday about the assassination attempt against Trump. She is under fire for the breach in security at the former president’s Pennsylvania rally but has resisted calls to resign. Ah yes, the committee chaired by Rep. Jim Comer (R-KY) — I’m sure the hearing will be fair and normal!

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