Will Cain Country - This Was Donald Trump's Moment: RNC Speech Recap

Episode Date: July 19, 2024

Former President Donald Trump closed out the RNC with a 90-minute speech that could be broken up into two parts: a tight, emotional speech and a Trump rally speech. In this special edition of The Will Cain Show, Will Cain shares how this was a major moment for the former president to win over fringe voters. Tell Will what you thought about this podcast by emailing [e-mail] Subscribe to The Will Cain Show on YouTube here: Watch The Will Cain Show! Follow Will on Twitter: @WillCain Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Is the Will Kane Show special edition after the conclusion of the Republican National Convention? Headlined by candidate for president, President Donald Trump. Normally streaming every Monday through Thursday, 12 o'clock Eastern Time, Fox News.com on the Fox News YouTube channel and the Fox News Facebook page, Terrestrial Radio Market to Market, coast to coast. But you can always get the Will Cain Show on demand by subscribing at Apple or on Spotify or subscribing for special episodes on YouTube. Stayed up late, as I'm sure many of you did, as Donald Trump's speech, which went on for over 90 minutes kept us to the last waning hours of the Republican National Convention. I wanted to give

you my review today, a day where I broadcast to you again from Dallas. I'll be scheduled to flight of New York a little bit later today, but my flights, several, have been canceled. All of American Airlines, Delta United, ground to a halt this morning as a nationwide IT outage follows the Republican national convention. Banks, Xbox, hospitals, almost anything that relies apparently on CrowdStark, IT, company seems to have ground to a halt. They're saying it's not a cyber attack. They're saying it's some type of coding error, but it does, once again, just kind of show the vulnerabilities we are, we have, to technology. It'd be fascinating to see how this day unfolds. And it will be fascinating to see how this week unfolds because it appears as

though conflicting reports, but growing momentum and smoke to make sure wonder if there's not a raging fire in the forest as to whether or not Joe Biden will remain the Democratic candidate for president in 2024. Reports are this weekend, perhaps as early as Sunday. Biden will drop out of the race for reelection to the president. Residency. Reporting by Mark Halperin suggests he would drop out. He will not endorse Kamala Harris, and it will be tossed to an open convention in August for the Democrats. There are other reports that no, Joe will hold on. Only he can make the call. And despite pressure from Chuck Schumer or Nancy Pelosi or Hakeem Jeffries or Barack Obama, it's in the end up to Joe Biden. I'm scheduled to take next week off. comes as we here on the Wilkins show have been building incredible momentum. We have been averaging well over 100,000 per episode. We're growing on YouTube. We're growing on Facebook. We're growing on podcast. I'm scheduled to take the next week and a half off on vacation.

But I will, if Joe Biden drops out this weekend, record a special episode that will be available on Monday responding to that news event and looking forward as to what exactly happens in the race for the presidency. But I wanted to get with you this morning. I wanted to sit down and review what happened last night at the Republican National Convention. I turned to my kids last night and I was like, you know, politics wasn't always like this. Politics has been boring for most of my life. And you can have a conversation. We can have an argument about whether or not politics should be boring. And I keep coming back to this idea,

this idea and a conversation I had earlier this week on The Will Kane Show with Pete Heggseth, that for most of us listening and watching, we lived, I think, in a bubble, a historical anomaly. You know, from roughly, let's call it, the 20th century. We lived in the age of ideology where we had these big debates.

first, you know, Marxism, and then, you know, after World War II, kind of almost on the back of William F. Buckley, who founded National Review, conservatism enters this fear. We had John Birchers, we had libertarians, we had Ayn Rand, we had all kinds of ideological prisms through which to view the world. And ideology is, honorably, a battle of ideas. But it can also be removed from reality and it can certainly be removed from history and it can also be a little bit boring and again you can have that conversation you can have a debate about whether or not that's right or wrong better or worse but politics loosely defined the selection of a leader through whatever mechanism for centuries wouldn't have been described i think as boring in fact they'd be

described as bloody that would be described as battles literally wars for power and it does seem to me that while we haven't returned to that thankfully we have returned to a less boring version of politics that maybe we shouldn't think about as like this great sea change in american history but a return to the norm in history. Last night you had Kid Rock come out and put on her performance. Let's be real for a minute. I mean, Kid Rock was awesome. I mean, I like Kid Rock.

But when I looked at the crowd at the Republican National Convention, it's not exactly the crowd I would suspect I would see at a Kid Rock concert. Got to give the Republican National. convention delegates and rally whatever goers a little credit in this respect they seem to have co-opted the Donald Trump dance you know Trump has become Trump is fascinating Trump has become as you watch him over time you know what I'm gonna actually change what I'm about to say it's similar to what I'm saying about history last night before Trump took the stage there was this video package that shows the history of Donald Trump and he's much younger and it's a

It's a younger version of Trump. It's USFL Trump. It's Atlantic City Trump. It's Trump Plaza. It's WWE Trump. It's New York City developer Trump. And it's just a good reminder that, yeah, Donald Trump was always a caricature. I don't want to say cartoonish because that sounds negative, but he was always like larger than life.

But he was a character that was celebrated in America because he became like this vision of what it meant to reach the top in America. even if he was born on third base, he became like the hood ornament on a luxury car, like something you looked out at and symbolized, hey, that's what you can become in America. And he was celebrated across the political spectrum. I mean, you can see those pictures of him, and you can look him up on the Internet. Today, people that speak horrifically ill of Donald Trump back then cozyed up to have their picture taken with Trump. and you see him in a way that is natural and what he does it's almost like it's self-aware and maybe even calculated but also owned in a way I'm coming back to the dance of the crowd

and kid rock where starting in 2012 or 14 I was watching that video and I'm like when did his hair literally become a caricature You know, when did his look become – because there was a time he just looked like a 40-something-year-old, you know, New York, slick developer. And the way he spoke, it wasn't so honestly caricatured. And it happened, I think, when he became the enemy of the left. It happened when he started going after Barack Obama. It happened then when he ran for president. But then even then, not even fully, until he won the presidency.

And then he becomes this like larger than life villain character with the hair, which had already started, I know, but even the mannerisms, the way he talked. And it became, he became the butt of every joke. That's what he became from, let's call it, 2014, maybe 13 through 2022. He became the butt of every joke. Nothing he did could be perceived as cool. And what I'm saying outside of those who love him, as you watched him last night, as you watched him maybe even since the assassination attempt, everything about him is more owned, more natural, more cool. Like when you see Trump dance now, it's not like, hey, look at this old man that doesn't know how to dance.

It's like, oh, he kind of owns that one move. And I may start doing that at wedding. When he wears the MAGA hat, it's not like, even that day, last Saturday, he's wearing it. I remember when he first put on the MAGA hat, you're like, that doesn't look like a guy that should be wearing a hat. Do you know what I'm saying? Like, it doesn't fit with the suit, and he doesn't know how to wear a ball cap. And now he wears it, and it's like the brim is perfectly rolled. You know, not too much that it looks like he's about to get on a tractor and hay the field.

and not too little that he looks like he's trying to be, you know, a 22-year-old minor league baseball player. He owns the hat. He wears it. He owns it. He wears it. It looks right. His suit, his long tie.

Everything has gone from this caricature and butt of a joke into this thing where, like, he's natural. He's comfortable. He's owned it. And what I guess I'm saying and why I'm tying that into the history is, it probably always was you look back at that video that was in his introduction

to the RNC last night no it was just a way like so many of these stories told about him that he was portrayed to us portrayed to us for a decade because he had to be stopped as I watched people last night

in the crowd dancing to kid rock with the signature Donald Trump dance it's just like it's all becoming so natural. Yeah, Kid Rock took the stage. I found myself, keep waiting. I waited through the speech. I'm going to talk to you about the tale of two speeches.

It lasted for a really long time because I kept waiting for 50 cent. I so badly wanted many men to be his introduction. Instead, it was Lee Greenwood, God bless the USA, which is incredible. But I kept waiting, like, how awesome is it going to be? if at the end of God Bless the USA, it rolls straight into 50 cents hit song about people trying to kill him. I just think it would have been incredibly cool. You had Dana White, you had Tucker Carlson, you had Eric Trump, you had a really unboring, entertaining, quality television, final night of the Republican National Convention. We're going to step aside here for a moment.

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converting to Trump now. Pete Heggseth on the Will Kane show this week said he went to a diner and after the assassination attempt, there are people saying, all right, I'm in with Donald Trump. Maybe it's going the other way still too. Maybe some are going the other way. But the reaction I got was like, is he drugged in the beginning and then it's rambling and long in the end? And that is the tale of two speeches. Not through that negative lens, but the first 20 minutes of Donald Trump's speech, my social media feed was full of people saying, this is a changed man, this is incredible, I didn't know he had this gear, and he's nailing this speech. That 20 minutes, Donald Trump was largely on script. I will say to the question of like, was he dry, little low energy

compared to what we're supposed to, what we've come to expect. And I think that's because he was on script. And I think when Donald Trump's on script, he's just, you know, less energetic because he is a definitely stream of consciousness off the script kind of guy. But that doesn't mean it wasn't good. It was really good. And I think it was showing people a different version of him and one that would be very natural and to be expected after an attempted assassination. There's video going around, by the way, where you can see the bullet going through Donald Trump's ear. It goes through the outer rim of his ear. You can see it's, you know, it's not so far into the year that you would say,

oh, the whole, like Michael Steele, like, is the ear gone, whatever? It's just right, it's incredible how it just clips, almost like he's getting his ear pierced by a bullet. So that should answer the question for, reviling people like Joy Reid asking just questions you know i played that video for you on thursday's edition of the will cane show about where is the medical reports but i don't know if that video is real or not but i think the questions aren't i think the questions about his medical about did he get hit by a bullet to get hit by glass and as he was he truly hit i think we're just deep

We're deep. By the way, and there's those on the right. I've told you this what happened who are doing deep into conspiracy about people who are in the crowd and everything. Keep an open mind, but don't lose your bearings. But he came out. He was contemplative. He said he wanted to be the present for all of America, not half of America. And he had with him powerfully the firefighter's jacket and helmet of Corey Campitore, the firefighter that was killed in the crowd. Trump said he spoke to them. He spoke to the family. of all three people that two were that were critically injured and one that was killed. And he was raised. He said, you know, it'll never be enough. It'll never replace them. But they'd established to go fund me directly after the assassination attempt. And they've raised over $6 million for those families. It was an incredibly moving moment. Trump also said he's only going to tell the story once. I found that fascinating. I'm only going to tell this story once. And he leaned into telling the story of the attempted assassination. It was riveting. You weren't going to turn away. Not only did I see, like, complete high-fives on Twitter and on the Internet, people liking it. I saw hat journalists that have spent the past decade lying about Donald Trump posting, this is incredible, this is gripping. I think one of the most interesting parts to me, because I've met the man several times, I'm pretty sure he went off script when he was like,

there's so much blood, there was so much blood. And he said, I asked the doctor, why is there so much places? Apparently, interesting fact, you might not have known the ear, a lot of blood, a lot of blood in the ear. You can tell he was completely off script. And I can just imagine him in the doctor's office and the doctor explaining to him and him completely captivated by that factoid that there's a lot of blood vessels in the ear. And that's why there would be so much blood. and him really like internalizing that

and incorporating that into the stories he's going to tell into the future if he does tell it more than once. I'm pretty sure that wasn't in the teleprompter. And you can see his personality really come out there. But I think in the end, and I think this was sincere, I really do the most powerful thing he said

there at the end and what leads you, what I think was the theme of that first, 20, 30 minutes was he said, I'm not supposed to be here. And then the crowd starts yelling, no, no, you are, you are, you are. He's quiet. He lets him, he lets him respond. And I think it would have been easy for Donald Trump to accept that, accept that praise, accept that anointment, except that endorsement. And then he comes back and he goes, no, honestly, I'm not supposed to be here. As one would feel if you escape death by a few millimeters. and he gave that to God numerous times he said but for the grace of God I think that first 20, 30 minutes is the exact type of speech that Donald Trump needed to give on this night.

And I think if there are still people out there to be won over, I think that I think that portion of his speech could have done so. I think it spoke to all of America. I think it was personal. I think it was appropriately emotional. I thought it was earnest. It was sincere. I think it was what was planned. And then I think there was a second, a second, two-thirds. I don't know how much of that was planned, how much of that was in the prompter. Because he basically went into rally mode. It was the same kind of speech you would see at a Donald Trump rally.

There were reports that the word Biden wasn't written to the speech whatsoever. Wouldn't be uttered once. Well, it was. And he said it. And he goes, that's the only time I'm going to say that word, Biden. but the point is he went into attack mode he went into policy mode he went into what they want change he talked about immigration he talked about education he talked about trans men or women in sports whatever men and women sports he talked about all the issues that you and i that we want

him to fight for but it did take a different tone and it did take a little bit more attack mode and it did fighter that was incredible throughout the night as the crowd started chanting fight fight fight at different times

there are also video boards up incredibly he came out with like almost Atlantic City style lights of like Trump

behind him in written and then it was replaced by an image of the White House and then on boards all around him

the pictures of him raising his fists with the American flag in the background or I'll tell you what is incredible as well when he showed the chart on immigration, the chart he says that saved his life. He said, I didn't get to see much of this chart last time.

I only got a second to look at the chart. So I thought, she said, we'll look at it now. We're going to step aside here for a moment. Stay tuned. This is Jason Chaffetz from the Jason and the House podcast. Join me every Monday to dive deeper into the latest political headlines and chat with remarkable guests.

Listen and follow now at Fox Newspodcast.com. or wherever you download podcasts. I do think the back two-thirds of that speech is probably not the one that wins over many voters. It's the one that rallies the base. It went on, in my humble opinion, too long. I mean, I think his rallies are one thing, and the convention acceptance speech is another. The good news for him is any of the swingable voters had probably already moved on after the 20, 30 minutes. And they probably saw that first portion of the speech and made up their mind.

and the truth is here's the truth i actually think that first 20 30 minutes did its job because what it did is it it rode the backs of what happened last saturday it reinforced what happened last saturday i watched a lot of this convention this week way more than i normally would because i find this stuff to be real with you pretty up boring i do um i like politics because i like ideas i like leadership i like to think about judgment and wisdom i don't like thinking about politicians and promises. I increasingly like policy less and less. I need to care about policy because it's the implication or the implementation of ideas and philosophy and these things that matter and wisdom and judgment and leadership. But I don't get, I'm going to be really, I don't get

jazzed by listening to Glenn Yonkin, get up there and tell me his vision for America. I don't. I just don't. I'm sorry. I like sports a lot. I like House of Dragons. I like a lot of things. I don't like retail politics. I actually like it not being boring. I like this part of Donald Trump. But so I wouldn't normally be like, I got to watch the RNC tonight, but I did. I watched almost every night, not for my job. A lot of times I would do it for my job. I did it because I was genuinely curious because I was genuinely interested. But what I was interested in was the reaction of Donald Trump. I wanted the reaction shots to every speaker. I wanted to see him smile the way he did when his granddaughter Kai Trump speaks. I wanted to see his reaction when Nikki Haley

speaks. I wanted to see his face as he internalized this week. And what I'm telling you is this convention was inseparable from what happened on Saturday. That speech was inseparable from an attempted assassination. This election in my mind, and I think in a lot of voters, minds, I think even in the voters' minds who had never yet voted for Donald Trump is inseparable from what happened to him on Saturday. In part, that's because it's a curiosity. We haven't had a assassination attempt in 40 years. In part, it's because it's the continuation of something that no one could have escaped

notice, and that's the constant attack on Donald Trump. through the press, through lies, through propaganda, through lawfare, through the justice system, through an assassin's bullet. And I think at some point it becomes all too clear that whoever that man was in the 80s and 90s that we saw in that video presentation is not who's been sold to us of the last 10 years. That whatever this man believes is not what's been lied to us about for the past 10 years. and whatever politics was we once thought is not this bubble we've been living in for half a century and maybe this is I said to my son last night my son asked me what do you think George Washington would think of Donald Trump and I said I don't think George Washington would know what to think not just of Donald Trump, but of America.

I don't think he'd recognize this government from what the founders envisioned. I don't think he would recognize technology. I don't think he'd recognize American culture. I think it would all be very alien to him. And I don't know what George Washington would think. But here's my guess. My guess is whether or not it's George Washington

or Thomas Jefferson or any founder, they would be considered radicals today. They would be considered conspiracy theorists. They would be considered absolute revolutionaries, as they were in their time. They would be once again today because this resembles nothing. Some of it better, perhaps, a lot of it worse, but all of it, something very, very different than what they envisioned. And because of that, when it comes to Donald Trump, There's a man and his moment.

And I think this is the moment for Donald Trump. All right. That's going to do it for me today. I'll see you special edition this coming Monday. Should we get the gigantic news that Joe Biden is dropping out of the race for president? And then I'll be on vacation for a little bit, but we're going to get back and we're going to keep this momentum going together on the Wilcane show. Listen to ad-free with a Fox News podcast plus subscription on Apple Podcasts, and Amazon Prime members, you can listen to this show,

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