The former US president gave his first televised speech in months on Saturday at the North Carolina Republican Party convention.
During this speech, he portrayed a calamitous image of the start of Joe Biden's mandate.
Flirting with a new presidential candidacy in 2024, Donald Trump, banned from social media, gave his first televised speech in months on Saturday warning that "America's survival" depended on a Republican victory in the parliamentary election. next year.
If the former US president has found his campaign music, the tone was more calm, contained, in front of some 1,200 guests at the convention of the Republican Party of North Carolina than during his famous big meetings.
During a flowing speech of about 1:30 in Greenville, in the southeast of the United States, the 74-year-old billionaire once again touched on the idea of a new candidacy in 2024, "a year that I look forward to it, ”to applause.
And repeated his unfounded allegations of massive electoral fraud during the presidential election of November 2020. "This election will go down in history as the greatest crime of the century", launched the one who has still not explicitly recognized the victory of his Democratic successor, Joe Biden, nearly five months after leaving the White House.
First televised speech since February
Banned from social networks since the murderous assault on Capitol Hill on January 6 by his supporters, who denounced the "theft" of the election, the billionaire had not given a televised speech since February. Despite this silence, he remains as influential among the Republicans as ever and, posing as a kingmaker, distributes, through daily press releases, his electoral support for the parliamentary elections of the "midterms" of November 2022 ... or the critics in vitriol of his enemies.
“America's survival depends on our ability to elect Republicans at all levels, starting midterms next year,” he said.
Illegal immigration "at record levels", "our businesses plundered by foreign cyber attacks", the price of gasoline "exploding", he painted a calamitous picture of the start of Joe Biden's mandate.
"America is despised and humiliated on the world stage," bowed "to China", he accused.
He tackles the boss of Facebook
The 45th President of the United States has also taken up other major popular topics among Republicans, such as the defense of the right to bear arms, the supposed "indoctrination" of schoolchildren in public schools where there is talk of racism, causing applause.
Provocative, Donald Trump had let go on Friday that "the next time" he would be in the White House, he would not invite Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg, outraged at having been suspended on the social network for two years.
An unprecedented decision.
Also banned from Twitter, the former president again pinned the boss of Facebook on Saturday: "We cannot let this kind of individual lead our country".
As for a return to the platform?
"I'm not really interested."