Emotional speech by Donald Trump accepting his candidacy as a candidate and after the attack on him

Far from the harsh tone we are used to, former President Donald Trump launched a message of unity in his first major intervention after the assassination attempt, in which he accepted his nomination as the Republican candidate for the White House. “It is necessary to heal the divisions in our society. I will be the president of everyone,” he said.

“I stand before you tonight with a message of confidence, strength and hope. (…) I stand for the presidency of the entire United States, not by half, because there is no victory by half,” he said, his right ear still bandaged.

Trump spoke at the close of the Republican National Convention, which began Monday in Milwaukee and aimed at confirming his candidacy and that of his “number two” candidate, Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio.

The word fight (fightin English) has become popular as a Republican slogan. The former president said it Saturday with a raised fist as he was being evacuated by law enforcement, as he himself recalled in an emotional account of what had happened.

A story that, he has assured us, he will no longer tell because it is “too painful” for him. He said he was alive because he turned his head to show an image about immigration and stated that even though there was blood everywhere, he felt “very safe” in a sense because he saw God on his side.

“If I hadn’t moved my head in that last incident, the killer’s bullet would have gone in perfectly and I wouldn’t be here tonight, we wouldn’t be together,” he said.

No mentions against Biden or Harris

In his speech, he barely mentioned the current president, Democrat Joe Biden, or his vice president, Kamala Harris, although he did not spare his criticism of his rival party. “We must not criminalize dissent or demonize political disagreement, which is happening in our country at a level that no one has ever seen before. The Democratic Party must immediately stop weaponizing the justice system and labeling the opposing politician as an enemy of democracy,” he said.

This election, he noted, should focus on the country’s problems and how to make it “successful, great and free” again: “At a time when our politics too often divides us, it is time to remember that we are all fellow citizens. We are one nation under God, indivisible.”

There has been no shortage of allusions to the “migrant invasion,” with the suggestion that he will close the border with Mexico on the first day of his hypothetical second term, while maintaining the fierce anti-immigration rhetoric that has become his hallmark. He has also accused the Biden administration of “destroying” Social Security and has assured that his administration will end inflation.