Trump Boasts of Accomplishments, Attacks Biden at Rally Behind Bulletproof Glass

Former President Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail on Wednesday, holding his first outdoor rally since surviving an assassination attempt. Trump spoke behind bulletproof glass in Asheboro, North Carolina, where he touted his accomplishments in office and criticized the Biden administration.

Former President Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail on Wednesday, holding his first outdoor rally since surviving an assassination attempt. Trump spoke behind bulletproof glass in Asheboro, North Carolina, where he touted his accomplishments in office and criticized the Biden administration.

Trump focused his remarks on national security, claiming that "the world was safer when I sat behind that beautiful, Resolute desk in the Oval Office." He said that "our allies admired us" and "our enemies feared us" under his leadership.

Trump Boasts of Accomplishments, Attacks Biden at Rally Behind Bulletproof Glass

Trump also took credit for defeating ISIS, killing "the world's top terrorists," securing the borders, achieving energy independence, standing up to China, protecting Israel, and making peace in the Middle East with the Abraham Accords.

"We did things like nobody ever heard of it," Trump said. "I talked this world out of a lot of wars with telephone calls. I don't have to send in the troops."

Trump Boasts of Accomplishments, Attacks Biden at Rally Behind Bulletproof Glass

Trump pointed to President Biden's erratic withdrawal from Afghanistan, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and the devastating Oct. 7 attack on Israel as evidence that the world is less safe under the current administration.

"Since the Afghanistan catastrophe, it's been open season on America and our allies," he said.

Trump Boasts of Accomplishments, Attacks Biden at Rally Behind Bulletproof Glass

Trump also addressed the revised job numbers after new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed there were 818,000 fewer jobs created this year than previously reported.

"The Harris-Biden administration has been caught fraudulently manipulating job statistics to hide the true extent of the economic ruin that they've inflicted on America," Trump said.

Trump Boasts of Accomplishments, Attacks Biden at Rally Behind Bulletproof Glass

Trump's running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), also spoke at the event, saying that Trump was "the person who prevented nuclear war."

"Mean tweets and world peace have a pretty nice ring to it. I think we ought to bring it right back," Vance told a cheering crowd. "He's too tough for the tyrants all over the world. He was too strong, even for an assassin's bullet. Ladies and gentlemen, let's return to a time when the bravest man led this nation with strength."

The Trump-Vance event came ahead of the third day of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.