As Donald Trump tidies up on forming his cabinet, it is good to also recall the tone and feel of his election victory speech, as against how his opponents in the Democratic Party took their own loss. The difference is in the grace and graciousness in victory and loss:
“I want to thank the American people for the extraordinary honour of being elected your 47th president and your 45th president. And to every citizen, I will fight for you, for your family and your future. Every single day I will be fighting for you, and with every breath in my body. I will not rest until we have delivered the strong, safe and prosperous America that our children deserve and that you deserve. This will truly be the golden age of America. That’s what we have to have………………
“This is a magnificent victory for the American people that will allow us to make America great again. And in addition to having won the battleground states of North Carolina, I love these places, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. We are now winning in Michigan, Arizona, Nevada and Alaska, which would result in us carrying at least three-hundred-and-fifteen electoral votes. But it’s much easier doing what the networks did, or whoever called it, because there was no other path. There was no other path to victory……..
“America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate. We have taken back control of the Senate, wow that’s great. The Senate races in Montana, Nevada, Texas, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, were all won by the MAGA movement. They helped so much………….And it also looks like we’ll be keeping control of the House of Representatives.
“I want to also thank my beautiful wife, Melania. First lady, who has the number one best-selling book in the country. She has done a great job…….But I want to thank my whole family, my amazing children…..
“I want to be the first to congratulate our great, now I can say vice president-elect of the United States, JD Vance, and his absolutely remarkable and beautiful wife, Usha Vance. And he is a feisty guy, isn’t he?……….He’s turned out to be a good choice. I took a little heat at the beginning, but I knew the brain was a good one, about as good as it gets. And we love the family, and we’re going to have a great four years, and we’re going to turn our country around, make it something very special.
“It lost that little thing called special. We’re going to make this so great. It’s the greatest country, and potentially the greatest country in the world by far. And right now, we’re going to just work very hard to get all of that back. We’re going to make it the best it’s ever been. We can do that. We just had to wait longer, I don’t know, it was going bad, and it was going bad fast. We’re gonna have to seal up those borders, and we’re gonna have to let people come into our country. We want people to come back in, but we have to let them come back in. But they have to come in legally. They have to come in legally………………
“But most of all, I want to thank the millions of hard-working Americans across the nation who have always been the heart and soul of this really great movement. We’ve been through so much together, and today you showed up in record numbers to deliver a victory like really probably no other, this was something special.
“And we’re going to pay you back. We’re going to do the best job. We’re going to turn it around. It’s got to be turned around. It’s got to be turned around fast. And we’re going to turn it around. We’re going to do it in every way, with so many ways, but we’re going to do it in every way. This will forever be remembered as the day the American people regained control of their country……………..
“We’re going to be paying down debt. We’re going to be reducing taxes. We can do things that nobody else can do. Nobody else is going to be able to do it. China doesn’t have what we have. Nobody has what we have, but we have the greatest people also. Maybe that’s the most important thing.
“This campaign has been so historic in so many ways. We’ve built the biggest, the broadest, the most unified coalition. They’ve never seen anything like it in all of American history. They’ve never seen any young and old men and women, rural and urban, and we had them all helping us tonight. When you think, I mean, I was looking at it, I was watching it, they had some great analysis of the people that voted for us. Nobody’s ever seen anything like. They came from all corners, union, non-union, African-American, Hispanic-American, Asian-American, Arab-American, Muslim-American. We had everybody and it was beautiful.
“It was a historic realignment, uniting citizens of all backgrounds around a common core of common sense. You know, we’re the party of common sense. We want to have borders. We want to have security. We want to have things be good, safe. We want great education. We want a strong and powerful military, and ideally we don’t have to use it. You know, we had no wars. Four years, we had no wars except we defeated ISIS. We defeated ISIS in record time, but we had no wars. They said, ‘He will start a war.’ I’m not going to start a war, I’m going to stop wars.
“But this is also a massive victory for democracy and for freedom. Together, we’re going to unlock America’s glorious destiny. We’re going to achieve the most incredible future for our people. Yesterday, as I stood at my last stop on the campaign trail, I’ll never be doing a rally again, can you believe it? I think we’ve done nine-hundred rallies approximately, can you imagine? Nine-hundred, nine-hundred-and-one, something, a lot of rallies.
“And it was sad. Everybody was sad, many people. I said, ‘This is our last rally, but now we’re going on to something that’s far more important, because the rallies were used for us to be put in this position where we can really help our country.’ That’s what we’re going to do. We’re going to make our country better than it ever has been. I said that many people have told me that God spared my life for a reason, and that reason was to save our country and to restore America to greatness, and now we are going to fulfil that mission together. We’re going to fulfil that mission.
“The task before us will not be easy, but I will bring every ounce of energy, spirit and fight that I have in my soul to the job that you’ve entrusted to me. This is a great job. There’s no job like this. This is the most important job in the world. Just as I did in my first term, we had a great first term, a great, great first term. I will govern by a simple motto, promises made, promises kept. We’re going to keep our promises. Nothing will stop me from keeping my word to you, the people, we will make America safe, strong, prosperous, powerful and free again.
“And I’m asking every citizen all across our land to join me in this noble and righteous endeavour. That’s what it is. It’s time to put the divisions of the past four years behind us. It’s time to unite, and we’re going to try. We’re going to try. We have to try, and it’s going to happen. Success will bring us together, I’ve seen that. I’ve seen that. I saw that in the first term, when we became more and more successful, people started coming together. Success is going to bring us together, and we are going to start by all putting America first.
“We have to put our country first for at least a period of time. We have to fix it, because together, we can truly make America great again for all Americans. So I want to just tell you what a great honour this is. I want to thank you. I will not let you down. America’s future will be bigger, better, bolder, richer, safer and stronger than it has ever been before. God bless you and God bless America. Thank you very much. Thank you very much.
“That’s vintage Donald Trump. We hope those promises are fulfilled.”
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