Orlando | President Donald Trump delivered a fierce denunciation of his rivals, the news media and the political establishment on Wednesday (AEST) y as he rallied a huge crowd of raucous supporters in Florida to officially open his reelection campaign, evoking the dark messaging and personal grievances that animated his 2016 victory.

Almost four years to the day since he announced his first, improbable run for public office from the basement of Trump Tower in Manhattan, Trump mocked and disparaged Democrats, calling them the leaders of an “angry, left-wing mob” and declaring that the 2020 election would be a “verdict on the un-American conduct of those who tried to undermine our great democracy, undermine you".