Trump on Trump
Three things you need to know from Donald J. Trump Jr.’s #RNCinCLE speech.
Trump won’t back down. Trump Jr. rejoiced in putting his father over the 1,237-delegate threshold needed for nomination earlier Tuesday and applauded his father’s unlikely political rise. “I’ve seen time and time again. That look in his eyes when someone says it cant be done. I saw that look a little over a year ago,” Trump Jr. says. “When he was told he couldn’t possibly succeed in politics. … For my father, impossible is just the starting point.”
Trump values the workingman. Despite Tuesday night’s theme “Make America Work Again” theme, there was less talk about economic policy and more rhetoric that championed Trump as a shrewd businessman who cares about all workers. “He didn’t hide out behind some desk in some executive seat. He hung out with the guys on the construction sites,” Trump Jr. says. “He listened to them and valued their opinions, he’s promoted people based on their character, work ethic and street smarts, not just based on credentials on paper. His true gift as a leader is that he sees the potential in others that they don’t see in themselves.”
Trump wants to help all of us. The second half of Trump Jr.’s speech focused on attacking Clinton and the mess made by the Democratic establishment. He attempted to position his father — who has been painted as slighting minorities — as someone who wants to unite our nation. “We’re going to make the schools the best in our world for every single American, for every single ethnicity, we’re gonna put Americans first, all Americans, not just a social class at the top,” says Trump Jr. “We’re going to work with a president who will give us a tax code that will free the American economy and free the special policies. A president who will give us an immigration law that protects American citizens and gives them jobs. A president who will replace Obamacare without leaving citizens without health care and who will do it without destroying Medicare. That president is my best friend, my father, Donald Trump.”
politics
12:45 PM EST
July 20, 2016