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• Donald Trump accepted the Republican Party’s nomination for the presidency, with a speech that seemed at times more muted than his usual remarks.
• Trump framed his speech with calls for unity: “I am running to be president for all of America, not half of America.”
• He largely avoided naming his rival Joe Biden directly, as the Democrat faces mounting calls to step out of the race.
• Trump revisited his near-death experience after a shooting at a rally on Saturday in Butler, Pennsylvania. Supporters have repeatedly credited “divine intervention” for his survival.
• But this speech – the longest ever at the Republican National Convention – returned to familiar Trump talking points, decrying immigrant “murderers” and the prospect of a “World War III” should Democrats continue to lead.

Representative Brendan Boyle of Pennsylvania has likened Donald Trump’s address on Thursday to Bill Clinton’s convention speech in 1988, when Michael Dukakis was nominated as the Democratic Party candidate.

“Bill Clinton’s 1988 speech, bashed and mocked for its length, was 80% shorter than this Trump snooze-fest speech,” Boyle wrote in a social media post.

Clinton, the governor of Arkansas at that time, spoke for 33 minutes in favour of Dukakis – more than double the time allocated to him. His remarks were largely criticised as uninspiring.

Still, as the adage goes, no publicity is bad publicity. Clinton went on to win the presidency four years later. Moreover, Boyle’s math appears to be off. Trump spoke for 92 minutes; Clinton’s speech is well less than 80 percent of that.

Bill Clinton’s 1988 speech, bashed and mocked for its length, was 80% shorter than this Trump snooze-fest speech. https://t.co/MCdf7E4ycg

— US Rep Brendan Boyle (@RepBrendanBoyle) July 19, 2024

Corey Comperatore, a fireman killed during the assassination attempt on Trump, featured heavily in the presidential nominee’s closing speech.

Trump paid homage to his family on stage and kissed Comperatore’s fire helmet, which was brought on stage along with other parts of his uniform.

Thousands of people also attended a memorial for Comperatore at a banquet hall in Pennsylvania earlier in the day. Trump said a fund for the victims of Saturday’s shooting had raised more than $6m. Two others remain injured from the attack.

Donald Trump’s last campaign rally ended with bloodshed: a 20-year-old gunman, positioned on a rooftop, fired an AR-15-style rifle into the crowd, nicking Trump’s ear and killing an attendee.

Now, as concerns swirl over the ex-president’s safety, will he return to the campaign trail – and his trademark public rallies?

The answer appears to be yes, but there will be changes.

Trump is set to appear at a rally on Saturday in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in his first joint appearance on the road with newly announced vice presidential pick JD Vance.

But to avoid the risks his last rally presented, the rally has been transferred to an indoor venue: the Van Andel Arena. Extra security is also expected.

The United Auto Workers (UAW), one of the largest unions in the country, has issued a response after Trump said their leader Shawn Fain should be “fired”.

In a social media post, the UAW called Trump a “scab”, a derogatory term for someone who fails to show solidarity with workers during a strike.

“@realDonaldTrump is a scab and a billionaire and that’s who he represents,” the union said in a social media post. “We know which side we’re on. Not his.”

In another post, the union quoted Fain that “There is only one answer to the threat we face as a nation. That answer is not another billionaire in office. That answer is not violence against our opponents. That answer is not hatred against our fellow human beings. The answer IS Solidarity.”

.@realDonaldTrump is a scab and a billionaire and that's who he represents.

We know which side we're on.

Not his.

— UAW (@UAW) July 19, 2024

With the conclusion of Donald Trump’s speech, the Republican National Convention came to a close after four days of events in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

The sound of the operatic aria “Nessun Dorma” from Puccini’s Turandot filled the air. Balloons fell from the ceiling of the Fiserv Forum, where the event was held. And Trump welcomed his family to the stage, where his wife Melania stood by his side.

See images from the final moments below.

Nayib Bukele, the conservative president of El Salvador, appeared to respond to Trump’s remarks that accused the Central American leader of sending “murderers” to the US.

“Taking the high road,” Bukele said in a social media post following Trump’s speech at the Republican National Convention.

The Salvadoran leader has won adoration from conservatives for instituting a years-long “state of exception” to help address crime – though critics say the suspension of civil liberties has led to widespread human rights abuses.

Taking the high road.

— Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) July 19, 2024

An attendee at tonight’s Republican National Convention offered a rave review of Trump’s remarks to Al Jazeera’s Heidi Zhou-Castro.

She said she thought the speech was “amazing”.

“Right now he is in the most presidential mode I’ve ever seen him in,” the unnamed attendee explained. She also said an “act of God” saved Trump from assassination on Saturday, echoing similar statements made from the convention stage.

Asked about a series of false claims made by Trump, she countered by saying that Trump’s critics have been “brainwashed”.

“No, no, no, no, no,” she said. “President Trump speaks the truth.”

“I believe that people are trying to find a reason to disagree with him because they’ve been brainwashed into believing he’s some evil man, and he’s not,” she added before breaking off the interview.

After an appeal for national unity and a sombre summary of his recent assassination attempt, Trump’s speech took on the tone of a campaign rally, as the ex-president railed against political rivals and an “invasion” of immigrants.

He also decried his legal woes as the result of a partisan “witch-hunt” and painted a dark picture of a nation in decay.

“He immediately started going after the same old dragons. He called Nancy Pelosi ‘crazy’. That’s not a new tone. That’s what we’ve heard before,” Al Jazeera correspondent Alan Fisher reported from the convention.

“People wanted to hear about what happened on Saturday, how important that was, and how it’s changed Donald Trump, but what we got is essentially a standard stump speech,” he added.

This was not the Donald Trump of past speeches, who decried “American carnage” and called for his supporters to “fight like hell”.

Instead, Trump’s performance at the Republican National Convention was relatively restrained, almost muted as he spoke solemnly about the attempt on his life last Saturday.

But after delivering his prepared remarks, Trump spoke in a more familiar tone: meandering and off the cuff, with rising enthusiasm as he spoke about immigrants as “murderers” and “criminals”.

Still, he returned to his theme of unity as he concluded his lengthy speech, which stretched well past an hour.

“For too long, our nation has settled for too little. We settled for too little. We’ve given everything to other nations, to other people. We’ve been told to lower your expectations and to accept less for your families. I am here tonight with the opposite message: Your expectations are not big enough,” he said as he wrapped up his remarks.

“Greatness is our birthright. But as long as our energies are spent fighting each other, our destiny will remain out of reach. And that’s not acceptable.”

“We are going to come together. And success will bring us together.”

Trump has brought a lengthy speech to an end. “America’s future will be bigger, better, bolder, brighter, happier, stronger, freer, greater and more united than ever before,” he said.

Trump has now given what appears to be the longest presidential nomination speech in US history, according to The American Presidency Project at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

The previous record was set by Trump himself in 2016, with remarks that went on for one hour and 14 minutes. His current speech is continuing.

“We will replenish our military and build an Iron Dome missile defence system to ensure that no enemy can strike our homeland. And this great Iron Dome will be built entirely in the USA,” Trump says.

The Iron Dome is an air defence system that was developed jointly by the US and Israel, but it is only deployed by the Israeli military.

The US has various missile defence systems. It is not clear why the US would need the Iron Dome, which is designed to intercept short-range rockets.

Trump has linked the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan to other crises happening in the world.

“It began to unravel with the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, the worst humiliation in the history of our country,” he said.

The agreement with the Taliban to pull US troops out of Afghanistan was finalised under the Trump presidency.

The former president says he got along well with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

“It’s nice to get along with somebody who has a lot of nuclear weapons,” he said.

While in office, Trump held two in-person summits with Kim, but the talks did not lead to concrete results on denuclearisation.

“He’d like to see me back, too,” Trump said of Kim at the convention. “I think he misses me.”

In his speech to the Republican National Convention, Trump appeared to attack Nayib Bukele, the tough-on-crime leader of El Salvador.

Bukele has attracted praise from conservatives in the US for his hard-handed approach to addressing crime: he has enacted multiple states of emergency in El Salvador to crack down on gang violence through the suspension of civil liberties.

“In El Salvador, murders are down by 70 percent. Why are they down? Now, he would have you convinced that because he’s trained murderers to be wonderful people. No, they’re down because they’re sending their murderers to the United States of America,” he said.

There is no evidence that foreign countries are sending their criminal populations to the US, a myth Trump has repeatedly invoked.

The former president claims without evidence that countries are emptying out their insane asylums and sending patients to the US.

Trump added that the US has become a “dumping ground” for the rest of the world.

He said burglaries in El Salvador are down because criminals have moved to the US.

“Tonight, America, this is my vow: I will not let these killers and criminals into our country,” Trump said.

Trump is back to his usual anti-immigrant rhetoric after a relatively calm start to his address.

“The greatest invasion in history is taking place right here in our country. They are coming in from every corner of the earth, not just from South America but from Africa, Asia, the Middle East, they’re coming from everywhere,” Trump says.

“They’re coming at levels that we’ve never seen before. It is an invasion, indeed.”