Trump in Western Iowa / Eastern Nebraska, repeating new and old lies, some simply just made up. Note that he has Stephen Miller on this as on many of these trips to touch-up some of the same malarkey.
Daniel Dale does the FSM’s work by sparing us from having to wait for a transcript or even listen to the gaping Orange *6%$#.
- Right Side Broadcasting, my go-to rally livestreamer, is interviewing a man attending his fifth Trump rally. Tonight, he says, "We're hoping that he'll announce the immediate arrest of Hillary Clinton and Hussein Obama for riggin' the general election."
- "This is truly a historic week for America," Trump begins. "And you know what I'm talking about." There is a roar for the swearing-in of Brett Kavanaugh.
- Repeating a line from his last rally, Trump thanks Republican senators for "refusing to back down in the face of the Democrats' shameful campaign of political and personal destruction."
- Trump on Kavanaugh: "They wanted to destroy that man. 'Cuz they want to destroy me too. But that's OK. Me? We understand. Him? How could you do that."
- Trump calls the anti-Kavanaugh protesters "phony protesters that got paid." He then says they're now protesting because they haven't gotten paid. Okay.
- Trump announces that he's moving to allow "E15" (15% ethanol) gas sales year-round. There's a roar.
- Trump refers to Democrats as "the dims." He says that Lou Dobbs and Sean Hannity say that. Then: "Judge Jeanine says that, doesn't she. Laura. Laura. How good has Laura been?...Do we like Tucker?...Steve Doocy...Ainsley..." The president is reciting the Fox News lineup.
- Trump calls Democrats "unhinged" and "crazy," but not, this time, loco.
- Trump says he's not going to let Democrats pack the courts. Believe that's his first rally reference to the court-packing idea.
- Trump: "They've gone wacko. They've gone so far left that they consider Pocahontas to consider a rational person. No, it's crazy. Elizabeth Warren. Oh I hope she runs."
- Trump says Elizabeth Warren running would allow us to get to the bottom of "whether or not she has Indian blood." He falsely claims she's gotten many advantages from claiming Native ancestry. Boston Globe exhaustively looked into this, found it false.
- Trump is, again, making up a long, entirely fictional war-heroism story he says Sen. Richard Blumenthal uttered. Blumenthal falsely claimed to have been in Vietnam, but he never said he was in Da Nang, fought in deadly battles, or was a hero.
- There is a Lock Her Up chant for Dianne Feinstein.
- Trump again says the Democrats, broadly, are "an angry left-wing mob."
- In Iowa, Trump acknowledges a need for immigrant labour, saying people are needed to "run the farms," but says they need to come in legally. There is a Build That Wall chant.
- Trump lies that he's started the wall (no, only has done fencing renos), lies that he's obtained $4.8 billion for those projects ($1.6 billion, with another $1.6 billion proposed for 2019 spending; he keeps inventing a third $1.6 billion.)
Trump lies that Barack Obama said manufacturing jobs are gone forever. Obama was talking about a subset of manufacturing jobs; he boasted in the same paragraph about how many the U.S. still has.
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- Trump lies that "600,000" manufacturing jobs have been added since the election. From Nov. 2016 through Sept. 2018, 390,000 manufacturing jobs were added.
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There is a fun extended interlude to allow for Nebraska residents to yell excitedly about Nebraska.
- Trump, very inaccurately: "The Dems will end ethanol...they will take it away."
- Trump says he has replaced "job-killing NAFTA" with the incredible USMCA. The USMCA includes significant changes to NAFTA, but it's very heavily NAFTA.
- Trump again lies that Democrats want to dismantle law enforcement and eliminate America's borders. This Miller-y line has been in his prepared text in the last week or so.
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Trump touts his longtime support of Steve King, who has either promoted white nationalism or come very close. "He may be the world's most conservative human being," Trump says.
- Trump, with an epic lie about Iowa Dem governor candidate Fred Hubbell, says Hubbell "wants to take away your ethanol." Also lies Hubbell wants to eliminate U.S. borders. Then lies that countries "send" their bad apples into the visa lottery, in which people enter themselves.
- Trump lies that people had been waiting "44 years" to get the Veterans Choice program passed before he did it. The Choice program was passed under Obama in 2014. Trump's law makes changes to the program.
- Trump nicknames Iowa Democratic congressional candidate Cindy Axne "Cindy Taxne." He says, "That was so easy."
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Trump begins reading an attack on Democratic congressional candidate Abby Finkenauer, makes a show of struggling with her name or maybe just struggles with her name, then says, "Who the HELL is that? Who is that?"
- Trump: "The new platform of the Democrat Party is to abolish ICE." That's not true. It's still a minority position in the party, opposed by the party leadership.
- Trump repeats his now-regular promise to "protect Americans with pre-existing conditions." He has offered no specifics whatsoever, and his administration is arguing in court that Obamacare's pre-existing protections are unconstitutional and should be voided.
- Trump is on the ICE-liberating-Long-Island part of the speech. He says such liberation could not occur without ICE.
- "They were ready to go to war with North Korea," Trump lies again about the Obama administration.
Trump says "speaking of the NFL," beginning to tell his story about getting the NFL's dispute with Canada solved, and there are boos, which he has to quiet, since he's not bashing the NFL. It's still wild to me that Republican rallies involve people booing the mention of the NFL.
Trump urges people to vote for various Republicans, then tells them to not bother voting for Steve King because he's gonna win anyway. Then adds that they should indeed vote for King.
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