Watch: Donald Trump’s First Speech After Assassination Attempt

Donald Trump delivered a lengthy acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention on Thursday, July 18, 2024. He formally accepted the Republican Party’s presidential nomination in a speech heavy with references to the shooting he survived last week and elongated by ad-libbed applause lines and riffs — capping a long-anticipated moment that came only after a winding and dramatic campaign.

His speech as written could have come from any number of Republicans, but the way Trump delivered it was similar to his usual pattern at his rallies — an unchanged style after he and allies spoke all week about how the shooting had changed him.

Melania Trump Appearance ..

She has appeared in public for the first time since the former president narrowly missed an assassin’s bullet.

Wearing Republican red, she walked, alone, into the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, which was accompanied by classical music – a marked contrast from the country music anthems and rock ballads we’ve been hearing all week.

Assassination attempt.

NDTV quoted Donald Trump saying, “I’m not supposed to be here tonight,” said a sombre Trump, with a bandage covering his right ear, which was nicked by a bullet. “As you already know, the assassin’s bullet came within a quarter of an inch of taking my life.”

Trump The Unifier?

On the stump, Trump typically paints a dark portrait of America, railing against political opponents he says are corrupt, depraved and bent on destroying the country.
But in his convention speech on Thursday, he tried out a new theme that he and his advisers had hinted was coming: unity.
It is in some ways an unexpected strategy. Many of Trump’s opponents and even allies privately believed the attempt on Trump’s life on Saturday would only darken his rhetoric.