Trump Says He Plans to Give Convention Speech From White House Lawn: New York Post Interview
President Donald Trump said on Thursday he planned to give his acceptance speech for the presidential nomination at this month’s Republican Party convention from the White House lawn, the New York Post reported on…
President Donald Trump said on Thursday he planned to give his acceptance speech for the presidential nomination at this month’s Republican Party convention from the White House lawn, the New York Post reported on Thursday.
“I’ll probably be giving my speech at the White House because it is a great place. It’s a place that makes me feel good, it makes the country feel good,” the Post quoted Trump as saying in an interview.
“We’d do it possibly outside on one of the lawns, we have various lawns, so we could have it outside in terms of the China virus,” Trump said.
Both the Republican and Democratic Parties have scaled back their traditional multi-day conventions in view of social distancing guidelines in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Trump last week proposed accepting the Republican nomination for the Nov. 3 election in a speech from the White House, prompting accusations by senior Democrats that he was politicizing the historic residence. Earlier this week he floated the idea of delivering the speech at the site of the Civil War battleground in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
Trump said he would visit Gettysburg later, according to the Post.
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