Donald Trump accepted the Republican Party nomination from the gardens of the White House on August 27, 2020. - Evan Vucci / AP / SIPA

He has spoken his opponent's name 41 times. Faced with 1,500 people - most of them without a mask and without any social distancing - Donald Trump formally accepted, Thursday evening, the nomination of the Republican Party for the presidential election of November 3. In the gardens of the White House transformed into a “MAGA” meeting, the American president warned voters against a Democratic candidate “under the orders of the radical left” who, if elected, “would be the destroyer of greatness from America".

President Trump accepts the Republican nomination for President of the United States! # RNC2020 pic.twitter.com/Fm7PeW8h2K

- Team Trump (Text VOTE to 88022) (@TeamTrump) August 28, 2020

For Donald Trump, "this election is a choice between two opposing visions": "You must decide between saving the American dream or letting a socialist program demolish our destiny." In a disjointed 70-minute speech, he alternated between total optimism, promising a vaccine against Covid-19 "before the end of the year" and creating "10 million jobs in 10 months", and blackness dystopian, waving the specter of "democratic cities on the brink of anarchy and chaos".

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Donald Trump repeated that he was the president of "law and order", threatened those who attack Confederate statues with 10 years in prison and promised "always, always, to defend the police". "We will not tolerate looting and riots (...) in Kenosha, Minneapolis, Portland or Chicago", he assured. Like Mike Pence the day before, he did not pronounce the name of Jacob Blake, seriously injured seven times in the back by police officers last Sunday.

Donald Trump again accused Joe Biden of having "voted for 47 years to relocate jobs" via "disastrous trade agreements", "offering his empty empathy to the workers".

The American president, for his part, did not really dwell on his program. Its slogan “Make America Great Again” becomes “Make America Greater Than Ever”. On the lawns of the White House, his supporters sing “4 more years, 4 more years”. Four years or only four months, verdict on November 3.

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