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Donald Trump Became a Reality TV Star Again With His Rambling Convention Speech


Donald Trump summoned his reality star persona as Hollywood's greatest showman for his speech at the Republican National Convention.

For 90 minutes of stream-of-consciousness storytelling, comprised of tangents and confusing asides, Trump seemed to revel in revisiting a bygone era — back when he led a much simpler life as a reality TV star. Trump brought props and photographs as he took the most traumatic experience of his life — surviving an assassination attempt on Saturday afternoon in Butler, Pa. — and made it into a Barbara Walters-worthy tell-all, where he played both interviewer and interviewee. On the convention stage, Trump recited a favorite campaign rally line about how illegal immigrants are invading America from asylums — before offering a non sequitur about “the late, great Hannibal Lecter,“ who lived in a mental institution.

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