Trump speech: Fox refuses to air official address as ex-president demands ‘reparations’ from China

We now have Frank Sinatra’s I Did It My Way as part of Mr Trump’s revamped musical warmup.

Lee Greenwood’s God Bless the USA is booming out from the speakers and the arrival of the 45th president of the United States is imminent.

“We are going to take back our country and take it back at a level that is very good for our country and our citizens, we cannot let bad things happen to our country and bad bad things are happening to us perhaps like never before,” said Mr Trump.

“Our country is being destroyed before our very own eyes, crime is exploding, police departments are being ripped apart and defunded,” said Mr Trump.

“They (Democrats) are vicious, they are violent, in many cases they hate our country and they have bad policy, but the bad newsroom out standpoint is they stick together, that is the one thing they have.

“We are going to have a tremendous 2022 like we did frankly in 2020, more votes than any sitting President in the history of the us . We had a great election, bad things happened but we had great election.”

“If I had a face like him I would have been president 20 years earlier,” said Mr Trump as he called him out in the audience.

“We are going to win North Carolina’s all important US Senate race and lay the groundwork to make sure Republicans carry the great state of North Carolina in a year I look forward to, 2024,” said Mr Trump.

“We are going to do numbers you have never seen before. I stand before you today confident that the people of North Carolina will decisively reject Joe Biden and the radical Democrats.”

Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law had been hotly tipped to run for elected office but after she was called up on stage by the former president she announced she would not run.

“It is no for now, not no forever,” she said as she explained she had a young family to look after instead of entering politics.

Instead, Mr Trump announced that he was endorsing congressman Ted Budd “as your next senator.”

“This is a complete, and total endorsement,” he added.

Donald Trump claimed credit for the US Covid vaccine success as he told an audience in North Carolina they would ‘be in a lot of trouble right now’ without him.

The former president made the claims as he told the state’s GOP convention that his economic successes while in office had only been derailed by the pandemic.

Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara, has used his speech in North Carolina to reveal that she will not be running for a Senate seat in the state despite speculation she would.

The wife of the former president’s second son, Eric, is a native of the Tar Heel state and had hinted that she may become the next member of a Trump political dynasty.

Phil Thomas has the story.

The president met inside the demilitarised zone separating the South and North Korea on June 30, 2019 in Panmunjom, South Korea.

Kim Jung Un is a “different kind of a guy –takes a different kind of a guy to get along with him” Mr Trump told the audience at his North Carolina speech on Saturday night.