Donald Trump: Trump appears again at Republican convention with a bandage on his ear | USA Elections

It is known that Donald Trump always enters the scene with a song God bless the USAfrom the singer of Country Lee Greenwood. The Republican Convention, held in Milwaukee this Monday, did not lack its tradition. It was not a mere entry, however. Greenwood sang his patriotic song at around 9:00 pm local time, about 52 hours after he survived an attempted attack on the former president during a rally in Pennsylvania last Saturday. The former president walked slowly and sadly, with a camera behind him and amid the delirium of thousands of people present in the basketball stadium, where his acclaim as presidential candidate is being celebrated until Thursday. Trump had a bandage on his left ear, the same bandage that hit one of the bullets that almost killed him by shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks.

He made his way to the screams of the audience, hours after he was officially nominated as the Republican Party’s bet for the White House in a unanimous vote of the delegates present, after having taken his candidacy for granted for many months. At the end of his walk, Ohio Senator JD Vance, chosen by Trump this Monday as his vice-presidential candidate, was waiting for him. Since he was placed on his left, the camera captured the profile of his bandaged ear whenever the former president turned to speak to him. He was accompanied by, among others, Ultra television host Tucker Carlson, an African-American congressman from Florida, Byron Douglas, and Mike Johnson, the speaker of the House of Representatives.

Trump, uncharacteristically, said nothing; his speech is scheduled for Thursday, the grand finale of the convention. He sat and listened to the final phase of interventions on the first day of the convention, devoted, under the heading “Ordinary Americans,” to what the magnate’s return to the White House would allegedly bring to the US economy. The focus was also on wooing black and Latino voters, whom both parties desperately covet.

The “cafecito” of the Hispanics.

Rapper Amber Rose, Kanye West’s former partner, spoke first, saying she stopped worrying and grew to love Trump when she listened to her father that day when he told her that the Republican “is not racist” despite the ad. For a few seconds, Linda Fornos, a Nicaraguan single mother and Las Vegas resident, stepped out of the way. “To my beloved Hispanic community, it’s time to wake up and smell the coffee,” she said. She said she and her two children work six jobs to make ends meet and blamed Joe Biden’s economic policies for this. “I voted for him in 2020,” she said amid a chorus of public support. “I’m sorry. It was a mistake.”

Other speakers tried to compare the economy to that of the Democratic president (Bidenomics) and Trump’s (Meganomics). Union leader Sean O’Brien harshly criticized the American business class (somewhat unrealistic in this way) and the Washington elite, and defined the former president as a “tough SOB” (acronym for “Son of a Bitch” in English). Previously, governors such as Kristi Noem (South Dakota) or Glenn Youngkin (Virginia) reviewed the achievements of their respective states as if they were islands safe from the storm in the great boom of Biden’s America.

The messianic point was made by Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina. Until recently he was in the running to be chosen as the vice presidential candidate, but in the end he remains an agitator of Trumpism, a role he played this Monday with a touch of a religious preacher. “On Saturday,” he said, referring to the assassination attempt on Trump, “the devil came to Pennsylvania with a rifle. “But an American lion stood up and roared! Oh yes! Roar!”

The lion, of course, was the former president who, after escaping the attack, emerged from among the bodies of the Secret Service members who had fallen upon him to save him, raising his fist and shouting: “Let us fight! Let us fight.” The cry was justified by the Republican delegates this Monday to welcome their leader.

The defiant demeanor Trump wore 52 hours earlier changed to an unusual expression for him on Monday night, and there was a moment when he even looked sad. It was then that Greenwood gave a final performance of his song, which has taken on a second life thanks to Trump saving it from obscurity. The song is also celebrating its birthday: It was composed four decades ago, in 1984, for another Republican candidate seeking reelection: Ronald Reagan. Greenwood premiered it at that year’s Republican National Convention in Dallas.

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