A Powerful Speech To End The RNC

In addition to former President Donald Trump, tonight’s line-up includes Tucker Carlson, Eric Trump, retired wrestler Hulk Hogan, UFC President Dana White, Rev. Franklin Graham, and a performance by Kid Rock.

But the main event will be Trump himself, who will be addressing the nation for the first time since surviving an assassination attempt last Saturday.

His speech will take place just two blocks away from the site where President Teddy Roosevelt survived an assassin’s bullet in 1912. Trump’s now iconic raised fist in the face of a killer calls to mind the manly swagger of that earlier Republican populist president from New York who famously said, “It takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.”

The former president—who since Saturday is being called an “American lion” rather than a “Bull Moose”—has reportedly re-written his convention speech since his brush with death because—as he told the Washington Examiner—he sees what happened as “a chance to bring the country together. I was given that chance.”