15 months after his firing, Tucker Carlson returns to Fox News airwaves with a GOP convention speech

15 months after his firing, Tucker Carlson returns to Fox News airwaves with a GOP convention speech

NEW YORK — Tucker Carlson returned to Fox News’ airwaves 15 months after being unceremoniously fired, seen Thursday in its coverage of a Republican National Convention speech that highlighted his growing influence in Donald Trump’s world. Carlson called the Republican nominee to return as president a changed man who effectively “became the leader of this … Read more

Melania Trump Breaks More Than 30 Years Of Tradition At The RNC

Melania Trump Breaks More Than 30 Years Of Tradition At The RNC

Former first lady Melania Trump had a grand entrance at the 2024 Republican National Convention on Thursday, walking out to classical music as the crowd applauded. But she broke decades of tradition by heading straight to her seat. The nominee’s spouse has spoken at the event for the past 30 years, something former first lady … Read more

Abortion Was A Non-Topic At The RNC

Abortion Was A Non-Topic At The RNC

“Abortion” was something of a dirty word at this year’s Republican National Convention, despite it being one of the biggest issues of the 2024 election and something the GOP has long fought to restrict. None of the convention’s speakers made it a central point of their speeches. Compare that to the 2020 RNC, when the … Read more

CNN Deploys ‘Best Cutaway’ For 1 Line In Eric Trump’s RNC Speech

CNN Deploys ‘Best Cutaway’ For 1 Line In Eric Trump’s RNC Speech

“The Daily Show” on Thursday hailed CNN for its coverage of one particular comment from Eric Trump during the Trump scion’s speech at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Eric Trump was waxing lyrical about how his father, former president and current GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, had decided to “leave behind the comforts of … Read more

From a media perspective, it was a tale of two Trump speeches — and long enough for both

From a media perspective, it was a tale of two Trump speeches — and long enough for both

From a media perspective, Donald Trump failed to stick the landing at the Republican convention that nominated him as its presidential candidate for a third time. His acceptance speech, which exceeded 90 minutes and stretched past midnight Eastern time into Friday, won him wide praise for its vivid recounting of last weekend’s assassination attempt yet … Read more

RNC Montage Includes Video Clip From Viral Racist Incident

RNC Montage Includes Video Clip From Viral Racist Incident

A clip of white college students mocking a Black woman was included in a video montage praising anti-“woke” college students at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday. The original video, which was filmed at a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Mississippi, went viral this spring. In it, a white male counterprotester mocks a Black … Read more

5 Key Moments From Donald Trump’s RNC Speech

5 Key Moments From Donald Trump’s RNC Speech

Former President Donald Trump on Thursday delivered a prime-time address in Milwaukee before the audience of the Republican National Convention — his first speech since his assassination attempt at a Pennsylvania rally over the weekend. Trump, who at the start of his speech struck a more somber tone, speaking about the shooting and how he … Read more

Trump’s ‘Remarkably Dishonest’ RNC Speech Exposed By CNN Fact-Checker

Trump’s ‘Remarkably Dishonest’ RNC Speech Exposed By CNN Fact-Checker

CNN’s fact-checking reporter Daniel Dale on Thursday debunked and corrected just some of the false claims that were made by former president and GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump during his address at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Trump’s 92-minute speech was “remarkably long” and “remarkably dishonest,” Dale told anchor Jake Tapper. Dale counted “at … Read more

Trump Utters The 1 Word He Wasn’t Supposed To Say During RNC Speech

Trump Utters The 1 Word He Wasn’t Supposed To Say During RNC Speech

It appears Donald Trump couldn’t help but go off script during his excruciatingly long Republican National Convention speech, uttering the one word his aides said he wouldn’t. The former president was not planning to mention President Joe Biden by name during his address on Thursday, his staff told multiple reporters, amid Trump’s supposed push for … Read more

Van Jones Likens This Year’s RNC to Obama 2008: ‘There’s Something Happening’

Van Jones Likens This Year’s RNC to Obama 2008: ‘There’s Something Happening’

CNN’s Van Jones on Thursday said the energy at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee was reminiscent of the 2008 Democratic National Convention when Barack Obama accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination. “The last time I was in a convention that felt like this was Obama 2008,” said the former Obama adviser-turned-political commentator. “There’s something happening,” … Read more