At long last, America’s Republican Party has announced the list of speakers that will appear at its convention in Cleveland, Ohio, this week. With support for Donald Trump thin among mainstream Republicans, the presumptive nominee had to get creative to fill the list. The final lineup includes soap opera stars, reality TV participants, and B-list athletes.
With such an unconventional roster, you may be wondering, “who didn’t make the cut?” We obtained a top-secret document from the Trump campaign that answers that very question—it shows all of the Trump camp’s suggested speakers who were not included in the final list. Here are the RNC rejects.
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POSSIBLE SPEAKERS FOR 2016 REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION
- A bottle of Trump Ice
- The Apprentice
- Grand Rapids, MI electrician Ronald Reagan
- Jeb Bush’s exclamation point
- Bernie Madoff
- Barry Goldwater (son of Barry Goldwater)
- Spokane, WA personal trainer George Washington
- Michael Sorrentino aka The Situation
- Scrooge McDuck
- The Duke brothers (from Trading Places)
- The Duke boys (from Dukes of Hazzard)
- Chris Christie*
- Darth Vader
- Howard Roark
- Barron Trump
- Corey Lewandowski
- Jon Voight
- Aaron Carter
- John McCain
- John McCain’s Vietnamese captors
- LeBron James’ cousin LaMichael James
- The entire cast of Duck Dynasty†
- Mike Tyson
- The police robot that bombed a sniper
- Roger Ailes
- A grizzly bear
- Joe the Drummer
- Tana Goertz
- A lock of Megyn Kelly’s hair
- Somebody Rodriguez or Gomez or was it Martinez
- Ann Coulter
- Don King
- One of Tiffany Trump’s Instagram followers
- Mitt Romney
*Since we obtained this list, the Trump campaign appears to have reconsidered, and added Christie back.
†We added this (and every entry) as parody, but upon consulting the actual RNC lineup, discovered that Willie Robertson of Duck Dynasty is in fact on the speaking list.