Mainstream Media Complains Over the Length Of Trump’s Convention Speech

The former President Donald Trump officially accepted the 2024 Republican presidential nomination with an epic speech at the Republican National Convention on Thursday night. Unsurprisingly, the mainstream media immediately lost their minds over Trump’s remarks.

However, the one aspect of his speech that they’ve specifically taken issue with is nothing short of ridiculous.

The actual content of Trump’s speech was of such a high quality that the leftwing media was left scrambling to find something about it to criticize. With nothing else to attack, they decided to have a full meltdown over the length of the speech. They claimed that Trump spoke for too long despite the fact that RNC attendees were clearly hanging on his every word until the very end.

You likely won’t be shocked to learn that one of the biggest liberal meltdowns came from Rachel Maddow. Minutes after Trump’s speech ended, the MSNBC host spoke out to whine about how long it had gone on.

From Real Clear Politics:
This is not just the longest convention speech in the modern era. It is the longest convention speech in the modern era by a very long way.

The previous record holder was Donald Trump in 2016, when he gave what was then the longest convention speech that had ever been given in the modern era. This—he passed that by, I think, about 20 minutes. We knew this was going to be a long speech when we got first the excerpts and then the full text of it, scripted at probably about an hour.

But this came in over an hour and a half long. This was a Fidel Castro kind of experience. The former president did get to most of the words on the teleprompter, but added a whole lot more.

Biden Could Never Speak For This Long

Democrats complaining about Trump giving a lengthy speech is particularly rich, given the fact that their guy Joe Biden would never be able to speak that long about anything. If Biden were tasked with giving a speech even close to the length of the one that Trump gave last night, it would be full of both gaffes and unintelligible ramblings. Even the teleprompter would not be enough to get Biden through this speech, due to just how far his cognitive decline appears to have gone.

Maddow’s remarks on Trump’s speech show that the mainstream media is truly grasping at straws at this point. Trump’s speech last night was a call for unity. Instead of attacking Biden, Trump used his speech to urge Americans everywhere to come together.

This did not sit well with Maddow and her colleagues in the mainstream media. They have been working overtime to portray Trump as a wannabe dictator who is out to divide us all. With this speech, however, Trump showed that this narrative could not be further from the truth.

Left with nothing else to criticize, Maddow was forced to resort to only complaining about how long Trump spoke. She can whine about that all she wants to. However, it’s safe to say that virtually nobody who actually listened to Trump’s full speech will agree with her.

Key Takeaways

• Trump accepts 2024 GOP presidential nomination with epic speech.
• Rachel Maddow and mainstream media lose their minds over speech’s length.
• Mainstream media is grasping at straws when it comes to attacking Trump.

Sources: Real Clear Politics, Fox News