Trump Derailed His Own Convention Speech

As previously noted, some in the media bloviated about how Trump's near assassination impacting the man and perhaps triggering some self-reflection and introspection.  Trump himself stated it caused him to totally rewrite his acceptance speech for the RNC and that he wanted to promote unity Americans.  Like everything else that comes out of his mouth these statements quickly became lies as the actual speech showed that nothing has changed.  Trump is still Trump: full of narcissism, endless untruths, a man only capable of demeaning remarks about others and with no desire to unify the country, only seeking to thrill his cultist followers many of whom insanely wore bandages on their right ears.   Some of Trump's statements were so detached from reality that they were complete fairy tales.  Insanely, he stated that historians ranked Biden as among America's worse presidents when the actual rating had Trump either as the worse or close to the worse president in America's history. Would that Democrats would get their act together and constantly remind Americans of who and what Trump is rather than tearing themselves apart. A piece in Politico looks at Trump's undisciplined and rambling lies.  Here are excerpts:

It began with as intensely personal an account as any presidential nominee has ever delivered — a step-by-step retelling of his near-death experience. And as soon as that narrative ended, it became… a Trump rally speech, with the prepared text delivered in a monotone worthy of a bus driver’s announcement, interrupted by lengthy ad lib riffs, jokes, shout-outs and a litany of “never seen anything like it” and “like never before.”

Even after what for anyone would be a life-changing experience, Trump remained Trump.

Some Republican allies had claimed he had become a changed man after the assassination attempt. The Trump campaign promised a convention that promoted unity. Trump himself said he ripped up his original speech and that he wouldn’t even mention by name his opponent President Joe Biden. None of it was true; Trump couldn’t help himself . . . .

In the riveting opening of his speech, Trump told a personal story infinitely more compelling than those of other most presidential candidates. . . . the attack just days before the convention, and the narrowness of his escape, made it by far the most powerful of any such account.

[T]hat shooting had no impact at all on the remainder of his meandering and occasionally bizarre speech. Except for one statement that “we must not demonize political disagreements” — a hilarious assertion coming from someone who has urged a military tribunal for one critic and an execution for another, and for whom terms like “vermin” for his enemies are par for the course — the rest of his speech did not reflect a single authentic note of reflection, not a hint that he had given a moment’s thought to a wider, more profound message for the American people.

His convention speech was another example of Trump’s belief — justified to be sure, at least as his followers are concerned — that anything he says, any off-the-wall observation, any “alternative fact,” will be met with rapturous cheers.

The speech, all 90-plus minutes of it, was a lesson to all the talking heads who were seeing in Trump’s demeanor a sense of humility, serenity, a newfound sense of life’s meaning.

Maybe we should have known when he came out in front of a huge electric sign with “TRUMP” lighting up the hall. Even a near-death experience did not change a lifetime of self-aggrandizement.

Trump remains Trump. For a battered, demoralized Democratic Party, that may be the one piece of good news this week.

As for Trump's Kool-Aid drinking cultists, I will never understand their devotion to such an amoral narcissist who cares nothing about them. They are merely sheep to me misled and duped.