Trump delivered his message to a packed house.  He spoke of his rising from the basement to now being the leading contender to defeat the woman he once was friends with.  He lamented that countries take advantage of us and the media is dishonest and terrible.  He promised to take the country back.  His military theme is a common ingredient in the monologue.  More than once he has promised to bomb the %*#$ out of the enemy.  Other contenders are not tough enough to be commander in chief he states.  He knows how to negotiate and evidently march to war.
     A New York Times writer did research on Trump after his criticism of Senator McCain, who Trump called a loser.  Trump stated because McCain was shot down in his jet over Viet Nam and served as a prison of war, he was not a winner.  Later on Trump tended to revise his criticism of the prisoner of war. The research by the writer state