Former President Donald Trump on Thursday night accepted the Republican nomination for president for the third time in a keynote speech that set a record for the Republican National Convention (RNC). Trump’s address effectively signaled the end of the four-day convention that officially settled the GOP presidential ticket. The former president spoke for more than 90 minutes in a broad-ranging address that began with him recounting his near-assassination at his campaign rally on Saturday. At the end of his speech, Trump was joined on stage by his wife, Melania, and the Trump family. The entire Trump family joins the stage at the end of President Trump's speech. Truly incredible moment ?? pic.twitter.com/Y93WDzR0zA — Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) July 19, 2024 During his speech, Trump honored Corey Comperatore, a retired firefighter who died on Saturday shielding his wife and daughter during the assassination attempt against Trump. Tragically, the shooter claimed the life of one of our fellow Americans, Corey Comperatore, and seriously wounded two other great warriors, David Dutch and James Copenhaver. — President Donald J. Trump pic.twitter.com/6W04vbXSKA — Team Trump (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@TeamTrump) July 19, 2024 One of the key themes throughout the speech was unity and a promise to represent every American, whether Trump received their votes or not. “To every citizen — whether you are young or old, a man or woman, Democrat, Republican, or independent, black or white, Asian or Hispanic — I extend to you a hand of loyalty and friendship,” Trump said. To every citizen — whether you are young or old, a man or woman, Democrat, Republican, or Independent, black or white, Asian or Hispanic — I extend to you a hand of loyalty and friendship. Together, we will lead America to new heights of greatness like the world has never seen. pic.twitter.com/c0MkzeSqYC — Team Trump (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@TeamTrump) July 19, 2024 Trump attributed his surviving the assassination attempt – during which a bullet tore his right ear – to divine intervention. He relayed what took place from his perspective for the first and what he said would be the last time. Kid Rock performed an original song written for the convention prior to Trump’s speech. Kid Rock performs at RNC: "I need everybody to put a fist up in the air!" "Fight! Fight!" pic.twitter.com/mDx7KpLSb5 — The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) July 19, 2024 Trump was introduced by UFC CEO Dana White, who, in a short but powerful address, touted Trump’s personal character and resiliency as a friend of 25 years. Dana White’s full five and a half minute speech at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee tonight ?? pic.twitter.com/uCSTFFPmuB — MMA Orbit (@mma_orbit) July 19, 2024 Retired wrestling star Hulk Hogan, whose real name is Terry Bollea, delivered a WWE-worthy pump-up speech during which he ripped off his shirt. .@HulkHogan brings the house down! ? pic.twitter.com/JbPEwi4GSs — MAGA War Room (@MAGAIncWarRoom) July 19, 2024 The day’s lineup also featured Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News host who has launched an independent media company since leaving the network. The final day of the convention also featured personal stories of Americans suffering from President Joe Biden’s policies and leadership, a staple throughout the convention. Real estate investor Steve Witkoff, a longtime friend of Trump, spoke of his son’s death from opioids. Steve Witkoff: It is a dark hour for America, but there is nobody I trust more in this moment than DONALD J. TRUMP.#RNCinMKE pic.twitter.com/cPC5hNc08r — Team Trump (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@TeamTrump) July 19, 2024 Lorenzo Sewell, the pastor at a church in Detroit, addressed black Americans and encouraged them to back Trump against Biden. Rev. Lorenzo Sewell is raising the roof at the RNC. “I was mentored by murderers and raised by the streets.” “He (Trump) came to the hood because he cares about average everyday Americans.” “What would you ask for your birthday? He (Trump) asked for prayer.” pic.twitter.com/KBTuQBoHCB — Allen Lively (@AllenLivelyLOF) July 18, 2024

UFC President Dana White spoke about his friendship with former President Donald Trump on Thursday night during his speech at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. White said he received a call from Trump two weeks ago asking if he would be willing to speak at the event and that the former president was concerned about interrupting the time White spent with his family. “He’s fighting for the future of this country and he’s concerned about interrupting my family trip. That’s the President Trump that I know. A man who truly cares about people,” he said. “The mainstream media likes to push the narrative that he doesn’t care about anyone but himself. I absolutely know that’s not the truth because I’ve been friends with this guy for 25 years. And for the people who know me, they’ll know this is true.” “I’m in the tough guy business and this man is the toughest, most resilient human being that I’ve ever met in my life,” he later added. “The higher the stakes, the harder he fights and this guy never ever gives up. So what’s at stake here? The answer is in President Trump’s text and I quote ‘a fight for our country’.” White said that Trump “is a proven leader, a fearless leader, and this country was in a much better place when he was in the Oval Office.” He also called Trump “a real American bad*ss,” which comes just days after Trump was shot during an assassination attempt at a campaign rally in western Pennsylvania. WATCH: WATCH: @danawhite on the choice Americans will make this fall: “I know I’m gonna choose strength and security. I know I’m gonna choose opportunity and prosperity. I know I’m gonna choose real American leadership and a real American badass.” pic.twitter.com/dTwEAKxlkw — Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) July 19, 2024

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America is great because America is good. If America ceases to be good, she will cease to be great. Those words often attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville (though in truth their origin remains much murkier) cut right to core of what makes America great: her goodness. But today, too many Americans reject the very idea that America is good. Our schools poison students with the lie that our American experiment has been flawed from the beginning because of sins such as slavery and that, as a result, we must replace the founding values of faith and freedom with a fundamentally new and different system of values often based on Marxist ideologies. This shift makes some sad sense when you consider that America’s goodness has always been tied to the Godliness of her citizens. The author of the quote attributed to de Tocqueville says that he searched for America’s greatness in many places but “not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power.” To be sure, there’s always been great variation among the religious beliefs of Americans, and Americans have always valued—and enshrined in our constitutional order—a respect and a demand for religious liberty. But there’s little doubt that today church attendance and even adherence to a Christian worldview are declining. Once prominent mainline Protestant denominations are poised to fade away within a generation. And no wonder. They often espouse views in direct contradiction to Biblical decrees and take theological positions that would be anathema to congregants only a few generations ago. Today’s pulpits don’t so much flame with righteousness as flirt with feel-good messaging. The results have been dire. As Americans have fled from churches and Christianity, so too has our nation fled from God—or at least public acknowledgments of Him and His attributes. In a series of diktats dating back to the 1960s, the Supreme Court banned prayer in public schools, banned the Bible from those schools, and banned displays of the Ten Commandments on governmental grounds. Somehow, the justices contorted the First Amendment’s establishment clause, which prohibits Congress from establishing or endorsing any particular religion, to mean that any mention, tangentially tied to any governmental entity, of God, Christianity, or especially Jesus Christ in the public sphere is forbidden. This ahistorical interpretation of the establishment clause can’t be squared with the understanding and practices of our founding generation who regularly gave thanks for God’s blessings and invoked pleas for God’s mercies in a variety of public and private places. More tragically, this capacious view of the establishment clause has given short shrift to the First Amendment’s free exercise clause. For over half a century, Americans’ ability to freely exercise their religious beliefs in the public square has taken a backseat to the fear that a school teacher saying a prayer might establish a religion. But there’s hope. The Supreme Court in recent years has overturned many—but not all—of its problematic precedents in the establishment clause context. And many Americans are rightly outraged that Jack Phillips, a Colorado cake baker, has spent nearly a decade in litigation for merely living his life in accordance with his religious beliefs. More Americans too are recognizing that it’s not discriminatory to talk about basic biological differences between men and women. And that it’s morally wrong to treat people differently based on their race despite what DEI advocates proclaim. But there are flashpoints, particularly around abortion. After the Supreme Court overturned its problematic precedent that created a constitutional right to abortion—something unknown throughout America’s history until Roe v. Wade in 1973—the issue has been returned to Americans and their elected representatives to decide. Would a nation fearful of God’s judgment allow the unmitigated murder of unborn children? Doubtful. And yet that’s exactly what some states like California and New York have done. There’s no denying that laws and systems of government reflect the mores and values of the people who establish them. So what do ours say about us? As John Adams famously wrote to his wife, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” Without God, there can be no goodness. And without goodness, there can be no greatness—at least none worth having. May we, like our founding generation, pray for God to guide us and to bless us with His goodness and His greatness. Without that, little else matters. The post America Can’t Have Greatness Without Goodness. And There Is No Goodness Without God. appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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