It's all about him

His bullshit stories are always about himself.



Ah, yes, the smart president who stuck by a "genius" with a drinking problem.

From the transcript of his pre-rally comments:




The Ohio campaign rally (as always) in Daniel Dale tweets  (many repeat rally lies excepted):

"Under Republican leadership, America is being respected again," Trump says, then discusses how big the crowd is.

Trump complain-boasts about the number of cameras on him. He asks the crowd to imagine "having" to "do this every night." He says, "One little mistake, one little mistake, and they try to destroy your entire career." There are sympathetic boos.

Trump on Africa, which Melania just visited: "They need help. They definitely need help. It's both beautiful and sad. It's got every kind of emotion."

Trump claims "an angry Democrat mob" wanted to destroy Kavanaugh even before he was selected. "These. Are Bad. People. We can't let this happen to our country."

Trump says he thinks he won Ohio, which he won by eight points, by "nine or ten points." He does this habitually - add a pointless little increase to an already-impressive number.

Trump on Dem Ohio governor candidate Richard Cordray: "A very bad guy...he's a bad guy." He continues, "Am I allowed to say some bad things about Cordray?" He then claims that Cordray spent "$250 million" renovating a CFPB building the GOP says was renovated for $145 million.

We're on the part where Trump lets local candidates speak. Rep. Jim Renacci, running against Sherrod Brown for Senate, mentions Hillary Clinton. There is a Lock Her Up chant. Later there is a Drain The Swamp chant. Renacci is one of the Republican candidates who really struggles when he tries to do a Trumpish red-meat speech. Almost palpable discomfort.

We're going to have Republicans using the Trump rally protocol for years to come.

There is a Build That Wall chant. Trump says, "A border wall, which is moving faster than anyone would believe...it's happening, it's moving, we have made so much progress, we will finish the wall." It does not exist, it is not moving, it has not started.

Rep. Steve Chabot: "God bless Kanye West." Also Rep. Steve Chabot: "You know how many liberals it takes to screw in a light bulb? None, because they'd prefer to stay in the dark." There is genuine laughter.

Trump claims he is going to "get the African-American vote." He adds, struggling a bit to keep a straight face: "And it's true, Kanye West -- what he did was pretty amazing yesterday. Pretty amazing."

Trump repeats his now-regular nonsense about Democrats' Medicare-for-all proposals, saying they would "utterly destroy Medicare and rob our seniors of the benefits."

Trump on the 378,000 manufacturing jobs added since his inauguration: "We've added nearly 600,000 brand new beautiful manufacturing jobs. Right?"

Trump criticizes the media for saying he exaggerated when there's a mere "2% variation" in his comments. He claims, "Actually we've UNDER-exaggerated."

Trump on previous presidents: "We've had a lot of normals."

And boy, would we like to have one now.

Trump said this in the context of claiming that normal presidents would have much smaller crowds than him. He is complaining that the "fakers back there" in the media are not showing the crowd properly.

Trump rambling about Democrats: "Da Nang Dick. Da Nang Dick. How 'bout Da Nang. Cory Booker. He ran Newark into the ground. Senator Dianne Feinstein." There is a big boo for Feinstein. "How bout that. Seriously? Who thinks that Dianne Feinstein leaked the papers?"

Trump: "By the way, how good is Clarence Thomas? How good? He's going to go down as one of your greats."

By all accounts, Clarence Thomas is a pretty worthless justice, never adding anything to the discussions of the nine on cases.

Trump is declining to conclude even though he's at his conclusion. "They have to start building larger arenas in this country." For the sixth time, he lies that he had 32,000 people at his election-eve rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Trump: "Robert E. Lee was a great general. And Abraham Lincoln developed a phobia. He couldn't beat Robert E. Lee. He was going crazy." He says of Grant, "He drank a little bit too much. You know who I'm talking about, right?"

Kavanaugh?  Maybe SOME of them knew.  Others, I'm guessing figured he was talking about Grant, since that's who he was talking about.

"And he went in and he knocked the hell out of everyone. And you know the story. He had a serious problem. A serious drinking problem. But man was he a good general. And he's finally being recognized as a great general."

Jesus.

This is the white-person-claim cousin of Trump's claim that Frederick Douglass is being recognized more and more.

Trump on Neil Armstrong planting the flag on the moon: "There was no kneeling, there was no nothing...there was no games. There was no games. BOOM. BOOM. Right, fellas?"

"We are Americans, and our hearts bleed red white and blue." The crowd shouts "red white and blue" in time with him.

This has been one of Trump's weirder recent rally speeches. It was very low-energy and low-news, and Trump got to his concluding lines, and then he decided to just say Trump things.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.