Trump's psychedelic circus of crazed Americana: KENNEDY's front-row view of the moment grown men wept at Donald's surreal convention speech

You could perceive a pin driblet successful Milwaukee connected Thursday nighttime arsenic Donald Trump sewage consecutive to nan point:

'I will show you precisely what happened, and you'll ne'er perceive it from maine a 2nd time, because it's really excessively achy to tell.'

I stood successful a circus of red, achromatic and blue-painted faces, bedazzled MAGA jackets and shot caps conscionable 20 rows backmost from nan Republican National Convention stage.

The Oregon delegation was connected my left, Puerto Rico connected my right. Across nan level the Wisconsin Cheeseheads were wearing their glorious orangish headgear.

The Texans proudly pumping successful their ivory Stetsons to nan unrecorded band. The Arizonans were decked retired successful achromatic receptor bandages, immoderate customized pinch Star Spangled-flair.

Behind maine sat Trump's family successful their backstage box.

I could make retired nan floor plan of red-hot Melania, freshly flown successful connected backstage jet. She'd conscionable sucked nan oxygen retired of nan arena, striding successful for illustration a WWE Diva to nan quivering strings of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, before a hard-cut to Kid Rock's rousing pre-Donald performance.

Musically, nan evening was starting to sound for illustration orangish juice and toothpaste tastes, but who cared?

Trump was astir to make his first nationalist remarks since a pizza-faced, 20-year-old dipstick evaded nan once-most respected information work successful nan world to travel wrong an inch and a stiff breeze of shooting him dead.

Rumors swirled aft Saturday's onslaught that Trump would only look remotely.

No chance.

This showman par excellence was going to beverage this infinitesimal for illustration an Iowa State Fair-winning dairy cow.

'It was a warm, beautiful time successful nan early evening successful Butler Township successful nan awesome Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,' Trump said.

They were nan opening lines of a bedtime communicative that 1 should ne'er publication to a child.

But nan Trumptastic ladies decked retired successful civilization MAGA glitter gowns, normie delegates successful suits and ties and gray-haired men cosplaying Uncle Sam were primed to detonate – if not somewhat manic aft conscionable being firehosed pinch a psychadelic popular parade of Americana.

Moments ago, a jacked-up Hulk Hogan had ripped disconnected his apical to uncover a Trump-Vance t-shirt. (I saw Don rustle nan Hulkster a buss from nan family box).

Evangelist Franklin Graham calmed nan rising animal impulses pinch an entreaty to our Lord and Savior, who he personally thanked for redeeming Trump from an assassin's bullet.

Kid Rock snapped a fewer artificial hips pinch his 'Fight! Fight! Fight!' ode.

And UFC president Dana White did his champion Macho Man Randy Savage belief ('Need a small excitement? Snap into nan Democrats!').

A slick pre-produced video re-tracing Trump's life communicative from young New York City existent property magnate to reality show prima to president near maine wondering: Did Don Draper travel retired of retirement?

And past nan shape lit up: 'TRUMP' successful elephantine Broadway bulbs.

The man of nan hr walked retired to singer Lee Greenwood belting retired 'God Bless nan U.S.A'.

The helmet and overgarment of slain firefighter leader Corey Comperatore, who was killed while shielding his family from nan would Trump assassin's shots connected Saturday, were placed stage-right.

All astir maine were successful tears. 

One female was sobbing truthful difficult that she wiped her eyes pinch her clone receptor bandage.

'I heard a large whizzing sound and felt thing deed maine really, really hard. On my correct ear. I said to myself, 'Wow, what was that? It tin only beryllium a bullet,' Trump recalled, nan assemblage transfixed.

'I moved my correct manus to my ear, brought it down. My manus was covered pinch blood. Just perfectly humor each complete nan place.'

A aged man wearing a achromatic cowboy chapeau pinch Trump 2024 buttons lining nan lapel of his achromatic fabric blazer was desperately trying to clasp it together - his chin quivering, his eyes misting up.

Only nan naive among america are not cynical of politics, but I must say, this felt real.

'To each citizen, whether you're young aliases old, a man aliases woman, Democrat, Republican aliases Independent, Black aliases white, Asian aliases Hispanic, I widen to you a manus of loyalty and of friendship,' he boomed - and we believed him.

This reside transcended politics, because it wasn't astir bumbling Joe Biden aliases Cackling Kamala.

This is nan Trump that stuck-up coastal know-it-alls garbage to acknowledge.

He relates to people.

And if he had near it there, stuck to nan teleprompter, wrapped up nan affectional rollercaster, past location wouldn't person been a pundit successful nan cablegram news beingness who could person credibility concluded that it wasn't 1 of nan astir masterful normal closers successful modern history.

However that would person been excessively elemental for specified a analyzable man starring specified a wild, unruly, unpredictable MAGA movement.

So, nan timepiece ticked by arsenic nan awesome entertainer went off-script.

When Don from Oregon bent down adjacent to me, I thought he dropped his phone. But this saccharine feline successful his 60s was doing squats truthful his legs wouldn't autumn asleep.

The full Puerto Rico unit had taken their seats.

A bully woman from Maine asked if nan paused teleprompter was broken.

'No', I reassured her arsenic she looked genuinely worried, 'he's conscionable freestyling.'

The minutes turned into what felt for illustration weeks arsenic 45 took a travel down representation lane from his emotion matter pinch Kim Jong Un to Venezuelan rapists.

I committedness I heard nan narrator from Sponge Bob denote successful a French accent 'three…hours…later…'

Though erstwhile I looked complete astatine nan Trump family box, I felt a consciousness of relief. The full point had emptied out!

Surely that meant they'd been ushered backstage to subordinate their patriarch immoderate infinitesimal now.

Nope!

For 40 minutes he kept going.

Jean from Delaware agreed that it had each gone connected a small long, but added wisely: 'that's to beryllium expected from a man who cheated death.'

And arsenic nan full Trump family gathered connected shape and balloons fell from nan ceiling, I reflected connected nan huffy spectacle we'd each conscionable watched.

In much ways than one, Jean is right.

Trump has escaped decease - and now it feels for illustration he's conscionable getting started again.