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From Staff Reports
Former U.S. President Donald Trump focused on the economy in what he called an “intellectual speech” in which he outlined his plans for cutting inflation — but he also took shots at the policies of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris (the latter is Trump’s challenger for the presidency) — during a 75-minute campaign speech Aug. 14 before a full-house of around 2,400 people in the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium in the Harrah’s Cherokee Center in downtown Asheville.
Lines of hopeful attendees stretched outside the center for hours early in the day, but seating was limited, so many missed Trump’s speech.
As for the news media response, The Wall Street Journal on Aug. 14 — under a headline of “New tariffs — and other takeaways from Trump’s economic speech” and a subheadline of “Republican former president asked Americans to consider if they were financially better off when he was in office” — reported that Trump “vowed that he would ‘Make America Affordable Again’ and promised an economic boom if he wins a second term.”
The WSJ story termed Trump’s speech “wide-ranging,” then noted his promise that “we’re going to have 10 percent to 20 percent tariffs on foreign countries that have been ripping us off for years...”
Meanwhile, the Associated Press’s website featured the headline, “Trump’s campaign called it an economic address. He made big promises, but mostly veered off topic.”
Further, the AP, with which Trump has often clashed, noted that the former president “made little effort to stay on message Wednesday at a rally ... that his campaign billed as a big economic address, mixing pledges to slash energy prices and ‘unleash economic abundance’ with familiar off-script tangents on Democratic nominee Kamala Harris’ laugh, the mechanics of wind energy and President Joe Biden’s son.”
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