Canadian reporter Daniel Dale covered it in his Twitter feed, so I don't have to look at the videos.
It's time to look past divisions and finally come together, which is why he spent the bulk of his rally smearing everybody he doesn't like, just like always.
Really bringing people together.
And, maybe the most bizarre smear of all, implicating the audience:
This is something I might have to investigate:
Interesting. Is Lewandowski flipping in the Mueller investigation a possibility?
More notes:
Trump: "Nobody knows what a community college is. We're going to start using - and we had this - 'VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS.'" Both exist. They are different things. People know this.
Trump on dealing with North Korea: "I may go in, it may not work out, I leave. I'm not going to be a John Kerry." For the 10th time in office, he falsely says the Obama administration gave Iran $150 billion.
Trump is offering an elaborate and bizzare theory for why Natalia Veselnitskaya now claims to be an "informant" in contact with the Russian government, claiming it's actually because he's so tough on Russia that...I don't even understand
Trump is on an extended rant against Comey, the "two lovers" at the FBI, and Andrew McCabe. He falsely says again that Andrew McCabe took $700,000.
Trump says there might be "a little pain" because of his hard line on trade, but it'll be good in the end - "ultimately for my farmers: I love my farmers." Interesting "my."
Trump says he says this not as a "braggadocios" thing but just as "fact": "Nobody in the first year of office has done what we've done. It's not me, it's we."
Trump says the employment situation is now so strong that the U.S. needs to allow in low-skill guest workers, but then they have to leave. "Guest workers. Don't we agree? We have to have 'em." Some mild applause.
Trump is getting even more detailed in his almost certainly fictional story about how he almost signed a plan to spend $1 billion on a new Jerusalem embassy and then stopped. He now says: "It's signed Donald and then it stopped and I put a big X over the Donald."
For the 16th time, Trump falsely claims "wages are going up for the first time in many, many years." They have been rising since 2014.
Trump twice says he had 32,000 people at his election-eve rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The hall had a capacity of 4,200. Local media estimated 8,000 total including people stuck outside.
Trump on him and Macron: "We like shaking each other's hand."
For the second time this month, Trump falsely says FDR served 16 years. He served 12.
Trump on a military strike: "Look at what happened in Syria: boom, boom, BING."
Trump now says "somebody from the news" is the one who said Trump is the only one who "accomplished more than he promised." He is the one who said that, though he keeps attributing it to unnamed others.
Trump is complaining about "some genius" who decided to move the U.S. embassy in London even though it was on "THE best site." It was moved because the Bush administration decided it couldn't be secured against terrorism in a dense neighbourhood.
Trump says the U.S. embassy in London is on a "lousy" site, and that's why he wouldn't cut the ribbon. "I'm not cutting that ribbon!" Amending his earlier tweeted false claim that it was Obama's fault, he says it was also Bush's fault.He wouldn't cut the ribbon because there was very public objection to him by Londoners; he was afraid to go.
Okay, that settles it. There are Trump staff plants in these audiences that start chants on Trump cues. I suppose we're now going to start hearing about nominations to the Nobel Prize committee.
UPDATE:
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