Thread by @MatthewBoedy

A live tweet of Trump #RNC2020 speech and you had to guess Lee Greenwood would be walk up music... 1/x

Starting at 1025. Trump doing his best Alec Baldwin impersonation with key enunciating... 2/x

“Profoundly accept?” Odd. “New frontiers of ambition,” Odd. “Torch that enlightens the world?” Torches lighten the direct area around it; it’s not a beacon. 3/x

“Ap-pa-lation” of slavery? Hmm.. 4/x

Remember this “clear choice” rhetoric is not for the wavering independent, but to bring out even more the non-college white vote. #RNC2020 5/x

Redemption and punishment and sins. Here we go. And salvation. And... wait for it... God. Applause for God. “Joe Biden is not a savior... (but) a destroyer.” Like Gozer from Ghostbusters? Or worse? The destroyer from Revelation? 6/x

Note: Trump never promised to tell the truth, right? He promised not to be “politically correct,” which is *not* same thing as accuracy and honesty. So on keeping his promise or word... he is par for course for getting policies in place. 7/x politifact.com/truth-o-meter/…

“Modestly” and then claiming he is best since Lincoln. Trump doing the 47 year thing on Biden. Someone obviously leaked that line as talking point to Charlie Kirk 8/x

https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1298809013476327424

“Plaz...ma?” Was he trying to say Plaza as in the hotel? 9/x

BTW this is Trump’s worst teleprompter performance, worse than any of Trump’s state of union. He can’t/won’t ad lib and it is killing his cadence. 10/x

Trump has terrible physical movement and status at podium. His turn to right is just so bad... 11/x

This is really also a bad Biden attack. So many other people at #RNCConvention did it crisper and more succinctly. 12/x

I mean at this point everyone reading transcripts of this on South Lawn would be better teleprompter performance. 13/x

The boredom in the crowd is just so obvious from the cut away shots. It may be near midnight but this is not the “rally” they expected. We have had one ad lib worth mentioning that goosed the audience. 14/x

Ah yes “who is hiring the radical professors?” Um.. the state of Georgia, for me at least. 15/x

We are starting to repeat ourselves, aren’t we? This is just terrible. And he has totally protected the 2nd Amendment so much that the next guy can just erase it? Man, it’s late. 16/x

So on that college speech issue, it was so bad right? and not one school has been punished. And repeating more. Signal to end? 17/x

“No one like us on earth.” Wow. American exceptionalism on steroids. And now Manifest Destiny. And the greatest hits of US history. The tone on this is so wrong. It’s energy less. 18/x

So 70 mins or so. Def lost energy at end. And this illegal campaign use of government property has ended. Thank god. Please vote. For the other guy. /end