Democrats launched an all out offensive against Donald Trump on day 3 of the DNC as a host of celebrities and politicians attempted to brand the republican nominee as dangerous, xenophobic, a demagogue and a fraud while pushing back against his grim warnings about the state of the nation.
Speakers called upon labels such as “dangerous demagogue,” “immigrant-bashing carnival barker,” and “bully racist” to describe The Donald. Many speakers also used their time to perpetuate the narrative that Trump coordinated with Russia to hack DNC emails as they continued a frantic attempt to divert attention away from the damning content of the emails themselves.
Per Politico, these were arguable the top 21 “burns” slamming Trump:
Early speakers blasted Trump’s values and comments about women
1. “Donald Trump & Mike Pence have united to form the ‘make misogyny great again’ ticket.”
–Ilyse Hogue, the president of NARAL Pro-Choice America
2. “Parents, you are right to fear what comes out of Donald Trump’s mouth. Republicans, you should have been careful also. He learned it from watching you.”
–Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid
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Others accused Trump of lacking any specifics on policy and holding only a superficial understanding of foreign policy.
3. “Donald Trump says he gets his foreign-policy experience from watching TV and running the Miss Universe pageant. If only it were funny, but it is deadly serious.”
–Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta
4. “No major party nominee in the history of this nation has ever known less or been less prepared to deal with our national security.”
–Vice President Joe Biden
5. “He’s not really a plans guy. Not really a facts guy, either.”
–President Barack Obama
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Beyond the alleged lack of policy chops, Democrats also ripped Trump’s pessimistic portrayal of the country and the world.
6. “Trump strangled the sunny optimism of Ronald Reagan and replaced ‘Tear down that wall’ with the cynical bigotry of “Build that wall.”
— California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom
7. “Even the Know Nothings, anti-immigrant party of the 1850s, did not stray this far into sheer ignorance and dark fantasy as have the Republicans and their leader Donald Trump.”
–California Gov. Jerry Brown
8. “Contempt for the Constitution, inhumane mass deportation, malice towards different views and different hues. Those are disqualifications from any office, let alone the highest office in the land.”
–Newsom
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They also ripped his business record.
9. “Trump says he wants to run the nation like he’s running his business? God help us. I am a New Yorker, and I know a con when I see one.”
–Former Republican New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg
10. “Truth be told, the richest thing about Donald Trump is his hypocrisy.”
–Bloomberg
11. “He is trying to tell us he cares about the middle class. Give me a break. That is a bunch of malarkey.”
–Vice President Joe Biden
12. “To me, it seems like our nation is too great to put in the hands of a slick-talking, empty promising, self-promoting, one-man wrecking crew.”
–Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, Hillary Clinton’s running mate
13. “Detroit is 18 months out of bankruptcy. Something Donald Trump knows a little bit about.”
–Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan
14. “I know plenty of businessmen and women who’ve achieved success without leaving a trail of lawsuits, and unpaid workers, and people feeling like they got cheated.”
–Obama
15. “It is a choice between the secretary of state and the secretary of hate. “
–Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York
16. “Donald Trump, when he sees gun violence devastating our communities, it is just like everything else. He sees it as an opportunity. Another opportunity to convince Americans that they should fear one another.”
–Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy
17. “Donald praises dictators and insults our allies. His foreign policy would be based on false bravado and bluster.”
–Rep. Ruben Gallego of Arizona, retired U.S. Marine
18. “Donald Trump is a walking, talking, recruiting poster for terrorists. That is not hyperbole, that’s not hyperbole. ISIS literally used Trump in a commercial.”
–Rear Admiral Josh Hutson, formerly of the U.S. Navy
19. “He even mocked POWs like John McCain. I served in the same Navy as John McCain. I used to vote in the same party as John McCain. Donald, you are not fit to polish John McCain’s boots.”
–Hutson
20. “When he says he would expand torture, kill civilians, or force the military to commit war crimes, he’s defying the values that every service member is taught on day one.”
–Former Marine Corps Captain Kristen Kavanaugh
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But perhaps the night’s sharpest knife was its most subtle, when Bloomberg indirectly ripped Trump by offering a base-level endorsement of Clinton:
21. “Together, let’s elect a sane, competent person.”
For his part, Trump attempted to steal the spotlight multiple times throughout the day starting with the now infamous press conference in the morning where he made clear that if anyone had Hillary’s deleted emails he would “love to see them” and went on to make several campaign stops throughout the day and ended with a live “Ask Me Anything” Q&A session on Reddit.
If it was Trump’s intention to get the Democrats to focus entirely on him and his latest provocative statements, during the DNC speeches, he succeded.
Responding to the endless litany of personal attacks, Trump’s campaign dismissed a night-long offensive from top Democrats at the party’s national convention as “empty rhetoric” and accused President Obama and others of being delusional about the state of the country.
Trump policy adviser, Stephen Miller, responded to day 3 of the DNC saying that speakers called upon “cheap, petty terms beneath the dignity of a convention” to describe Trump. He continued:
“[T]hey resorted to the politics of fear, trying to convince Americans not to vote for change — they spoke on behalf of the big banks and the big elites, not on behalf of suffering Americans. They want to keep the system rigged for their donors. Period. Rigged trade deals, a rigged economy, and open borders that benefit the few at the expense of the many.”
Miller said Democrats are avoiding “dealing with reality” accusing them of doing to Trump what Trump was previously accused of doing himself: “they spoke in cheap, petty terms beneath the dignity of a convention,” he said. “Their entire message could be summed up as: things are perfect, let’s not change a single thing. So they resorted to the politics of fear, trying to convince Americans not to vote for change.”
“Our campaign offers a bold, exciting, detailed vision for the future,” he continued. “Tonight, the Democrats’ offered only more rewards for the rich, powerful and well-connected, and more angry, demeaning, sniping attacks against all decent Americans who want change for their families.”
Trump summarized his feelings, as he often tends to do, with a simple, easily-digestable tweet.
Our country does not feel ‘great already’ to the millions of wonderful people living in poverty, violence and despair.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 28, 2016
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