Unless you’re on the list of live speakers scheduled for the republican National Convention, slated to start Monday, you’re likely to have little idea of what’s in store for the broadcast.

As Politico reports, few republicans not directly involved with the production have any idea what’s going to happen, and it seems some who are involved still don’t know.

Even though the campaign released a list of speakers and the days they’re scheduled to speak, few republicans know about the program.  Some have passed it off as a necessity given the speed with which the convention was assembled, given Donald Trump’s orders four weeks ago to abandon a live convention in Jacksonville, Florida.

“It’s like planning a wedding and having to move at the last minute, and all that can go wrong or right in something like this,” former Rep. Lou Barletta (R-Pa.).  “But I’m sure they’ll have everything worked out. I don’t really know what the rest of the week will look like as far as programming.”

Oh course, that rationale ignores the fact that the convention could have been planned months in advance, if someone had taken the threat of coronavirus seriously.

Others point to the secrecy of the Trump administration wanting to have people on the edge of their seats, anxiously anticipating what’s next.

“That is how Trump operates,” said state Rep. Blaise Ingoglia of Florida, a Republican told Politico. “He loves the big reveal. I think that’s what you are seeing here.”