What will Trump tell the RNC after an attempt on his life?
Consider This from NPR
NPR
4.2 • 6.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
What will he say at the Republican National Convention this week, after an attempt on his life?
For sponsor-free episodes of Consider This, sign up for Consider This+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org.
Email us at considerthis@npr.org.
See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.
NPR Privacy Policy
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen please welcome the next president of the United States Donald J Trump. |
| 0:11.0 | This week the Republican Party is laying out its vision of an America once again led by former President Donald Trump. |
| 0:18.0 | Thousands of his supporters are gathered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in a hall filled with balloons and draped in red white and blue. |
| 0:25.0 | Each night people like how Speaker Mike Johnson have criticized the policies of the current administration. |
| 0:31.0 | America can't risk four more years of Joe Biden's weakness that has invited so much aggression |
| 0:36.5 | by our enemies. |
| 0:37.5 | Other GOP leaders have catalogged a list of grievances about the state of the country. And we agree that Democrats have moved so far to the left that they're putting our freedoms in danger. |
| 0:50.0 | If you want to seal the border, vote Trump. |
| 0:54.0 | Our government has been no better shredding our Constitution and upending the rule of law. |
| 1:01.0 | That was Nicki Haley, Vivik Ramaswami, and Ben Carson. As with any |
| 1:05.4 | party convention, what happens Monday Tuesday and Wednesday is mostly a warm-up for |
| 1:10.3 | the main event. Since he began his first presidential campaign to sending the golden |
| 1:15.4 | escalator at Trump Tower in 2015, Donald Trump's message has been consistent. |
| 1:20.9 | When was the last time anybody saw us beating, let's say China in a trade deal? |
| 1:30.6 | They kill us. |
| 1:32.0 | I beat China all the time. All the time. |
| 1:35.0 | That kind of messaging persisted once he took the oath of office in 2017. |
| 1:42.0 | And the crime, and the gangs, and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country |
| 1:50.2 | of so much unrealized potential. |
| 1:54.0 | This American carnage stops right here and stops right now. |
| 2:02.0 | And it continues as he campaigns for president for the third time. |
| 2:07.0 | Biden is pushing the largest tax hike in American history. I will make the Trump tax cuts, |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from NPR, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of NPR and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

