Day three of the Republican National Convention wrapped up Wednesday (Aug. 26), but it was a handful of crises on the sidelines which captured the hearts and attention of the American public.
Vice president Mike Pence delivered the closing speech on the penultimate day of the RNC, and debuted the line “Make America Great Again, again,” which immediately began trending on social media.
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However, Donald Trump and the Republicans didn’t score on the social media leader boards with their pre-election powwow.
As the Category 4 Hurricane Laura neared landfall, high-profile players from the NBA and WNBA boycotted the respective competitions over the Jacob Blake shooting, and footage emerged of a heavily-armed teenager shooting two citizens — coupled with Tucker Carlson’s coverage of it — Americans had a lot to absorb.
Bette Midler, a tireless tweeter during the first two days of the RNC, called time-out as she and several other stars of music and entertainment weighed in on events across a troubling night.
See below.
So will @realDonaldTrump take out a full page ad to call for the death penalty for #KyleRittenhouse like he did for the #CentralParkFive, who turned out to be innocent? I doubt it.
— bettemidler (@BetteMidler) August 26, 2020
“A Conservative is a person with two legs who never learned to walk forward.” #FDR.
— bettemidler (@BetteMidler) August 27, 2020
You’ll have to survive the #RNC without me tonight. Sorry! Talk amongst yourselves.
— bettemidler (@BetteMidler) August 27, 2020
Fuck Kyle Rittenhouse and fuck this gun loving racist ass country for allowing him to legally run around during a protest carrying a rifle and shooting unarmed civilians. There is no “good guy with a gun”. Only white 17 yr olds who think their life is a Mark Wahlberg movie. VOTE.
— FINNEAS (@finneas) August 26, 2020
If only they could just have one more sensitivity training workshop. #defundthepolice https://t.co/hnDvxy4cRi
— John Legend (@johnlegend) August 26, 2020
FUCK
— John Legend (@johnlegend) August 26, 2020
Kyle Howard Rittenhouse, the suspected Kenosha shooter, was in the front row of a Trump rally in Des Moines. Do you want to tell me that Trump's hate-filled, divisive rhetoric isn't driving much of the violence in our cities?
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) August 26, 2020
Let me get this straight. A Black man is shot in the back 7 times, while getting in car with his kids. A White youth carrying an AR-15 walks away, after killing people. Same police force, same town, same week. And what is Trump’s response? Send in troops to crush the protesters.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) August 26, 2020
If they don't take action after this, every one of Fox News's executives, directors, and advertisers is complicit in Tucker Carlson's racist, murderous rants. https://t.co/YbT8as1kHg
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) August 27, 2020
The “Pro-Life” party is very busy today making excuses for a 17 year-old with an AR-15 shooting people down in the street. #hypocritefucksticks
— Richard Marx (@richardmarx) August 27, 2020
If you want to see what leadership looks like tonight, watch this – not the RNC.
Thank you @Bucks https://t.co/9gqLXV8BvT— Chelsea Clinton (@ChelseaClinton) August 27, 2020
#Kenosha Kyle Rittenhouse was safely taken into custody? So we know it’s possible?!
— Arsenio Hall (@ArsenioHall) August 26, 2020
“Obey the curfew.”
If the police stop shooting and killing black men you won’t need a curfew.
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) August 26, 2020
PS: fuck you @TuckerCarlson you smug, entitled, trust-funded racist prick.
— Richard Marx (@richardmarx) August 27, 2020