That is roughly equal to the population of the cities of tuscaloosa, alabama or burbank, california or south bend, indiana. And in this area, sadly, the United States leads the world. The cases continue to mount. Right now north of 1. 7 million. Thats just in our country, just what we know of. The increase in deaths from early march until now has been relentless, startling in its speed. 100,000 people gone in fewer than 100 days. This is some of what we heard from the president as the virus was claiming more and more victims. Are you worried about a pandemic at this point . No, were not at all. And were we have it totally under control. Looks like by april, you know, in theory when it gets a little warmer it miraculously goes away. I hope thats true. Were finding very little problem. Very little problem. Now, you treat this like a flu. When you have 15 people and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero its going to disappear. One day its like a miracle. It w
Public figure at all, before stepping on to that convention stage. When khizr khan and his wife stood behind the podium at the Democratic Convention and talked about losing their son in iraq, when captain khans father took that wellworn copy of the constitution out of his pocket and waved it in the air and challenged donald trump to read it, it was a challenge, and it was a moment that really rocked i think it rocked the country. It rocked the Trump Campaign, specifically. It drove their candidate and their whole campaign to distraction for well over a week. It also, not incidentally, put the pocketsized version of the constitution on the best seller list this summer. Which was very nice. At the Republican Convention, there was no real equivalent moment to that. There was no speech at the Republican Convention that caused the same kind of ongoing political disruption that khizr khans remarks made. But at the Republican Convention, they, too, i think, have the most emotional, the most i
So theres a lot of drama around that. That was actually at some point, an expectation that he might cancel the event, so he wouldnt be seen as pouring gasoline on the flames in that city. On the other hand, some people saw that might be a real opportunity for him to demonstrate his president ialness, his ability to calm people in times of crisis, to try to bring the country together. President s often have to do that in difficult times. So what donald trump was gonna do around that situation, there was a little drama leading up to the night of that speech. What he did in the end, he didnt cancel, but he made a somewhat unusual choice. He went to not milwaukee proper. He decided to go to an event about 40 minutes outside milwaukee, to a basically 100 allwhite milwaukee suburb. And he gave a speech there on race. He gave a speech there specifically, as if he was talking to a black audience. It was like his first ever outreach address to African Americans, but he was speaking to an allwhi
Conventions this year, was one of the speeches that was by a person who wasnt at all famous. A person who wasnt a known public figure at a, before stepping on to that convention stage. When khizr khan and his wife stood behind the podium at the Democratic Convention and talked about losing their son in iraq, when captain khans father took that wellworn copy of the constitution out of his pocket and waved it in the air and challenged donald trump to read it, it was a challenge, and it was a moment that really rocked i think it rocked the country. It rocked the Trump Campaign, specifically. It drove their candidate and their whole campaign to distraction for well over a week. It also, not incidentally, put the pocketsized version of the constitution on the best seller list this summer. Which was very nice. At the Republican Convention, there was no real equivalent moment to that. There was no speech at the Republican Convention that caused the same kind of ongoing political disruption th
Not born here. When all in starts right and he gave a speech there on race. He gave a speech there specifically, as if he was talking to a black audience. It was like his first ever outreach address to African Americans, but he was speaking to an allwhite room. So that was the sort of surreal decision by the Trump Campaign. It then became a laughoutloud moment from the Trump Campaign, when they put out their press release about that speech, bragging about all the praise they say they got fr reporters and observers about this brave speech on the needs of the African American community, that donald trump gave to a room entirely full of white people. And one of the things that the Trump Campaign distributed in their selfcongratulatory press release about that speech was this tweet from an Associated Press reporter named jill kolvin. Trump sounds like hes talking directly to African Americans, thats their quote. What was funny about that, what jill colvin actually said, the tweet they were