In Acceptance Speech, Trump Promotes Division Instead of Unity

July 18, 2024, Salt Lake City - In his rambling keynote address at the Republican National Convention, Donald Trump, rather than call for unity, used his platform to stoke division. From promising “the largest deportation in history,” to falsely claiming there is a “massive invasion at the Southern Border” to repeating his Big Lie that the 2020 election was “stolen,” Donald Trump showed tonight that, if he is elected President, he will return America to the chaos of his first term.

Under the Trump Presidency, parents and children were separated by Trump’s border control. Trump locked America into a trade war with China. He called for and signed a “Muslim Ban” on immigration from Muslim-majority countries. He barred patriotic transgender Americans from serving in the Armed Services. He appointed three MAGA extremists to the Supreme Court and claimed responsibility for the end of Roe v. Wade. By the end of the Trump presidency, millions of Americans had lost their jobs or their lives due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

“Trump’s speech proved that he intends to exacerbate the chaos of his first term,” UDP Chair Diane Lewis said. “To prevent further turmoil and division, Democrats must defeat Donald Trump and his MAGA acolytes at the ballot box this November.” 

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