Donald Trump Became a Reality TV Star Again With His Rambling Convention Speech
variety.comRamin Setoodeh Co-Editor-in-Chief In a rambling convention speech on Thursday night, Donald Trump — sweaty and with a bandage over his right ear from surviving an assassination attempt on his life — did what he does best.
He talked, and talked, and talked. And talked. And talked. And talked. In front of a captive audience — both the true-believer crowd of Republicans in Milwaukee and those still glued to the Trump show at home — the 45th and would-be-47th President said relatively little about what he might accomplish with four more years in power.
But Trump has never been one to let details get him down. What mattered was the spotlight. Trump preached to America through his favorite medium: television.
With the camera focused on him once again after a long wilderness period, did it really matter if he spoke off-the-cuff? For 90 minutes of stream-of-consciousness storytelling, comprised of tangents and confusing asides, Trump seemed to revel in revisiting a bygone era — back when he led a much simpler life as a reality TV star.
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