On the first day of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, President Trump made his first public appearance since being shot at during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. He walked up to the hall that connected to the main stage area and looked like a boss, very composed, and he had a clean dressing around his ear from the wound from a bullet hitting his ear and nearly killing him two days prior.
As he was walking out like a boss and composed, he was shown on the jumbotron to an excited cheering crowd, and when musician Lee Greenwood introduced him, he started to become noticeably emotional as Greenwood said as the band played the notes to “God Bless the U.S.A.,” “Hello RNC. Is there any doubt who’s going to be the next President of the United States? Prayer works. This nation is based on faith. Prayer works because he was sure, as Donald Trump turned his head just slightly, that the bullet missed him just enough to save his life to be the next President of the United States. We have believed for so long that God will make some changes in this country, and he’s about to make a change in the current administration and send them home. Thank you, everybody, for being here tonight. Tonight, we make the decision on what’s right for America. More prosperity, less gas prices, less food prices, help for our veterans, and God Bless our military, wherever they are in the United States…and abroad. There will be no wars…there wasn’t any when President Trump was President, and he’s gonna be President again and fix every problem.” Then, an AI voice spoke on the PA system, “Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome the next President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.”
The crowd could be heard chanting, “WE WANT TRUMP!” as he waved and mouthed, “Thank you! Thank you very much!”
He was sitting next to his V.P. pick, J.D. Vance, Rep. Mike Johnson (Speaker of the House), Byron Donalds (R-FLA), Tucker Carlson, and his two sons Don Jr. and Eric Trump behind them.
After this, the night the RNC guests were everyday Americans who discussed what Trump stands for and how hard the economy under President Joe Biden is to get by in. Many of them showed the pain it was causing them and how people were struggling, and they all said they were thriving under Trump’s presidency. One small business owner said Trump knew how to keep things affordable because he was a businessman, not a politician.
Even a former Democrat, Amber Rose, came to the stage and, as a mother concerned for her children’s future, said, “The media has lied to us about Donald Trump. I have known this for a long time. I believed those lies. So I’m here to set the record straight….and I believed the propaganda that Trump was racist.” Her father told her that he wasn’t, and she did her research and went to rallies and said, “I realized that Trump supporters don’t care if you are black, white, gay or straight; it’s all love.” The crowd cheered at this. Then she said, “And that’s when it hit me. These are my people this is where I belong.”
A few others of diverse backgrounds came up to the podium and talked about how they were struggling, working multiple Jobs to survive Biden’s economy. There was a Hispanic woman named Linda Fornos who came to this country from Nicaragua legally and said, “Our open borders are making this problem worse. It’s upsetting to see billions of dollars being sent to immigrants who came here illegally while hard-working families who did it the right way are left struggling. That fact is illegal immigration hurts legal immigrants the most. The Biden system is broken.”
In the end, Pastor James Remky gave a benediction, which was the funniest part of the night. He did a Trump impression about being blessed.
