United States President, Donald Trump will deliver a partisan political speech to the Republican National Convention next week in the White House where Trump will be formally nominated by the party.

Trump who is due to give his acceptance speech at the end of the four-day convention, which is taking place mostly online due to the corona virus pandemic during a visit to Arizona, confirmed that he will make the speech from the South Lawn of the White House on Thursday.

The president has also vowed to give the speech live while mocking Michelle Obama, the former first lady, who purportedly had pre-recorded her speech well in advance of its broadcast on Monday to the Democratic convention.

Note that the shift to holding the speech from the White House is unconventional and does not have a precedent in the television era but White House legal advisers have approved the speech, noting that the laws that forbid politics in the executive branch do not generally apply to the president himself.