2. Took aim at President Joe Biden’s biggest vulnerabilities: inflation and energy prices.

“We are a failing nation for millions of Americans. The past two years under Joe Biden have been a time of pain, hardship, anxiety and despair. As we speak, inflation is the highest in over 50 years. Gas prices have reached the highest levels in history and expect them to go much higher. Now that the strategic national reserves which I filled up, have been virtually drained in order to keep gasoline prices lower just prior to the election. Joe Biden has intentionally surrendered our energy independence.”

3. Denounced migrants - “we’re being poisoned” - and portrayed American cities as in the grip of a crime wave that has left them “cesspools of blood.”

“Our southern border has been erased and our country is being invaded by millions and millions of unknown people many of whom are entering for a very bad and sinister reason. And you know what that reason is, we will be paying a big price for this invasion into our country for years to come. Hundreds of thousands of pounds of deadly drugs, including very lethal fentanyl, are flooding across the now open and totally porous southern border.”

4. Trump took aim at left-wing groups, the Washington establishment and the news media.

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“The decline of America is being forced upon us by the radical left lunatics running our government right into the ground. This decline is not a fate we must accept when given the choice boldly, clearly and directly. I believe the American people will overwhelmingly reject the left’s platform of national ruin, and they will embrace our platform of national greatness and glory to America globally.”

5. He continued his ongoing war of words with House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi.

“Breaking the radical Democrats’ crippling Congress was crucial. So in other words, because of our great congressmen and all of our great congressmen and congresswomen, we’ve taken over Congress, Nancy Pelosi has been fired.”

6. He downplayed climate change and painted nuclear arms as a greater threat.

“The Green New Deal and the environment which they say may affect us in 300 years, is all that is talked about. And yet nuclear weapons which would destroy the world immediately are never even discussed as a major threat. Can you imagine? They say the ocean will rise 1/8 of an inch over the next 200 to 300 years. Don’t worry about nuclear weapons that can take out entire countries with one shot, something is wrong with their thinking under Biden and the radical Democrats.”

And one thing Trump didn’t say:

1. Although he assailed the US election process, he did not use his speech to relive his false claims of massive voter fraud in 2020 and did not mention the January 6, 2021 attack by his supporters on the US Capitol.

-with AP