The Operation to present the friendlier face of Donald TrumpOn Wednesday night, Trump’s eldest granddaughter Kai Trump made an invaluable contribution. It was four days after the former president suffered an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania and at the end of the third day of the Republican Convention that runs until Thursday in Milwaukee.
She was invited to speak by her father, Donald J. Trump, when it was his turn, right on time. prime time. “You don’t see a Trump give up the floor very often,” Don J. said, “but I got a phone call on Monday from a young lady who said, ‘Dad, I want to speak at the convention. ’”
Kai is 17 years old and the firstborn of Donald Jr. and his ex-wife, Vanessa, parents of four children before divorcing in 2018. This Wednesday she wanted to try to convince the world that her grandfather is like other grandparents: “He cares and is loving. He bought us candy when our parents weren’t looking,” said the girl while from the tribune of personalities the former president attended her words with that expression somewhere between excited and magnanimous that has remained after the assassination attempt on Saturday.
“The media makes my grandfather out to be a different person than I know him to be. But he is a very loving person. He wants the best for this country and I can assure you that he will work every day to make America great again,” Kai Trump continued.
The idea that the world has gotten the wrong impression of Trump and that, after nine years in the public eye, it is finally time for that to change has been a recurring theme throughout the convention. From Kevin McCarthy, former Speaker of the House of Representatives, to the delegates present and former collaborators such as Miami-Dade Commissioner Kevin Cabrera, head of his campaign in Florida in 2020, everyone insists that the attack has brought out the true face of the former president: a “tough man with a big heart.”
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The surprise of her granddaughter’s intervention had been spoiled by her own granddaughter when she announced on her Instagram in the morning, as her age goes, that she would speak that night at the convention, at the same time that her father had been booked. When the young woman left the stage, he gave a speech in which he repeated the mantras that have been heard day after day in Milwaukee: Joe Biden’s administration is endangering his compatriots with its “open borders” policy, the economy is worse than when her father was in charge, and there are no longer Democrats like those of before, who could be respected despite disagreeing with them, like Franklin Roosevelt, Kennedy or Martin Luther King.
Kai joined the former president’s large court of relatives on Wednesday who have become agents of the patriarch’s political operation. There are the children: Donald Jr., Eric and Ivanka, from the first wife, Ivana, and Tiffany, from the second, Marla Maples. There is the daughter-in-law, Lara, Eric’s partner, who is the co-chair of the Republican National Committee, the governing body of the party and a key player in fundraising for the campaign to the White House. And there is also Melania Trump, the third wife, whose speech at the 2016 convention was one of the high points of the event, but since Trump lost the election she has chosen not to be seen much with her husband.
Melania and Ivanka, who played a prominent role alongside her husband Jared Kushner during her father’s time in the White House, are expected to take part in the closing day of the convention on Thursday, which will conclude the Republican candidate’s triumphant speech.
During his remarks on Wednesday, Donald Jr. also took credit for making it possible to select JD Vance, who spoke later, as his vice presidential candidate. “I come from Trump Tower,” he said, “and he comes from the heart of Appalachia, but we have found a way to be friends.”
The former president’s eldest son then marveled at his father’s grit after nearly losing his life in Pennsylvania. On the screens, they projected the image that has become the icon of that day, in which the candidate can be seen with his fist raised and an American flag in the background. Don Jr. then let the audience shout the same thing that Trump shouted to his supporters on Saturday: “Let’s fight! Let’s fight! Let’s fight!” “There’s toughness and then there’s Trump toughness,” said Donald Jr. “And the good news is that America is at Trump’s toughness level.”
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