Trump makes first public appearance since failed assassination attempt

Reuters pointed out Donald Trump He took the stage at a campaign rally in Milwaukee with his ear heavily bandaged.

Current President USA As he appeared on stage, the crowd gathered in the Fiserv Forum Hall began chanting “Fight, fight” and raised their fists, referring to his reaction after he was injured in a failed assassination attempt. Reuters noted that Trump did not hide his emotions about the audience’s reaction.

Trump did not give any speeches on Monday, but he was in the audience for several recent speeches, mostly on the economy. With a bandaged ear, he sat with vice presidential candidate JD Vance, his sons and right-wing columnist Tucker Carlson as he listened to: African-American rapper and influencer Amber Rose speak. Another rapper sympathetic to Trump’s former partner Kanye Westclaiming, among other things, that although she once believed, like other African Americans, that Trump was a racist, she “did my own analysis” and found that was not the case. Like other speakers, she said that Americans were better off under the former president’s presidency and that when he returns to the White House he will ensure they can once again afford “good food for their kids.” Trump also received an endorsement from Sean O’Brien, president of the Teamsters union, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. The speeches capped the first day of the Republican National Convention, during which party delegates chose Trump and Vance as their presidential and vice presidential candidates and approved an election plan that promises: “The largest-scale deportation of immigrants in history,” concluding The war in Ukraine And prevent World War III.

The convention, which opened in Milwaukee on Monday, will run through Thursday and culminate with a speech by Donald Trump himself.

The vote during Monday’s national convention was a formality for Trump’s victory in the party’s intra-party competition. The heads of delegations repeatedly recalled the attack on the former president and his subsequent call to “fight, fight, fight” when announcing the vote.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, who presided over the ceremony, announced that Trump received all 2,387 delegate votes. Trump received all the votes because his opponents in the Republican primary, including his primary opponent Nikki Haleyallowing its representatives to vote for the former president.

Just before the vote, Trump announced his presidential candidacy. The 39-year-old senator from Ohio, J.D. Vance, is better known as the author of the best-selling book “Elegy for Bidocks,” which describes his poor hometown in Appalachia, Kentucky, and was interpreted as an explanation for Trump’s popularity among the working class.

Even before election The former financier, who in 2016 was a sharp critic of Donald Trump, claiming he could become “American Hitler”, is now one of the former president’s most ardent supporters and a leader of the party’s populist wing.

Since becoming a senator, he has also become one of the most vocal opponents of aid. UkraineClaimed in an interview that he “doesn’t care” what happens in Ukraine.