Democrats kept the pressure on Donald Trump throughout the third night of their convention, with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) comparing the former president to a jilted ex.
“Donald Trump is like an old boyfriend who you broke up with, but he just won’t go away,” Jeffries said. “He has spent the last four years spinning the block, trying to get back into a relationship with the American people. Bro, we broke up with you for a reason.”
Jeffries went on to remind voters of “chaos agent” Trump’s track record during his presidency.
“Donald Trump can spin the block all he wants, but there’s no reason for us to ever get back together,” he said. “Been there, done that. We’re not going back.”
Former President Bill Clinton hit Trump for his rally ramblings, in particular how Trump routinely makes strange references to “Silence of the Lambs.”
Clinton wondered what other world leaders might think when they hear that.
“What are they supposed to make of these endless tributes to the ‘late, great Hannibal Lecter’?” he asked.
“President Obama once gave me the great honor of saying I was ‘the explainer in chief,’” he said. “Folks, I’ve thought and thought about it, and I don’t know what to say.”
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore compared his military service to Trump ducking the draft during the Vietnam War by claiming he had bone spurs.
“I joined the Army when I was 17,” Moore said. “I was too young to sign the paperwork. I had to ask my mom to sign the paperwork for me because I don’t have bone spurs.”
TV legend Oprah Winfrey delivered a rousing speech with plenty of memorable lines, including one aimed at Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, who has complained that America is run “by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives.”
“We are not so different from our neighbors,” she said. “When a house is on fire, we don’t ask about the homeowner’s race or religion. We don’t wonder who their partner is or how they voted. No, we just try to do the best we can to save them ― and if the place happens to belong to a childless cat lady, well, we try to get that cat out, too.”
Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota and vice presidential candidate, took aim at Project 2025, the far-right policy document put together by a number of figures in Trump’s inner circle.
The former president has tried to distance himself from Project 2025 as it becomes increasingly unpopular, but the general concepts inside are widely considered to form the blueprint of a potential second term.
Walz has taken to calling Trump and other Republicans “weird,” a word he says helps remove the fear that helps give them power.
But on Wednesday, he added a couple of other words as he described the Project 2025 agenda.
“Is it weird?” he asked. “Absolutely. But it’s also wrong, and it’s dangerous.”
Longtime “Saturday Night Live” cast member Kenan Thompson brought out the oversized Project 2025 book.
“You ever seen a document that could kill a small animal and democracy at the same time?” he quipped, then compared it to the terms and conditions from a software company: