Lying sociopath in Illinois

As always, from Daniel Dale (minus some of the commonly repeated lies)...

Trump begins: "This was a rough, rough day for all of us. You know that." Trump addresses the shooting again. "The hearts of all Americans are filled with grief following the monstrous killing of Jewish-Americans," he says. "It's horrible." "This evil antisemitic attack is an assault on all of us. It's an assault on humanity. It will require all of us working together to extract the hateful poison of antisemitism from our world. This was an antisemitic attack at its worst."

Trump: Antisemitism can't be ignored, tolerated or allowed to continue; must be "confronted and condemned" everywhere it exists. He notes that Jews have faced persecution for many years; he adds: "You know that. You've all read it. We've studied it. They've gone through a lot."

Also, some Nazis are good people, remember?

Trump: "This is our most important midterm election perhaps ever."

Trump, again trying to justify holding the rally, repeats his lie that the NYSE opened "the following day" after 9/11. He says we can't allow "sick" and "demented" people to determine how we live our lives. "Remember the New York Stock Exchange," Trump repeats. The NYSE was closed until six days after 9/11. He's asking people to remember something that didn't happen.

That may be a lie, but George W Bush did indeed encourage us all to go right back out there and shop very shortly after the attack.

Trump on the shooting and the rally: "We have our lives. We have our schedules. And nobody's going to change it. So we're here. And let's have a good time. And if you don't mind: I'm going to tone it down just a little bit." Many in the crowd yell: "Noooo."

Sir Alert and Tears Alert: "Steelworkers...Big, strong guys they came up to me. One of them said 'thank you sir for saving our country.' And he was crying. And I'm tellin' you, he was crying. I don't think this guy cried when he was a baby. This guy never cried."

Trump re-promises his imaginary 10% tax cut.

Trump's speech said steel jobs had "vanished," but he said "vanquished" by accident. As usual, he refuses to admit he misspoke, saying, "You can say 'vanquished' and 'vanished.' It's a combination of both."

LOL!  If he'd used his normal approach, he would have said, "Vanquished OR vanished."  This one's even better.  "A combination of both."  Hysterical.

Trump says his 42-point victory in West Virginia is especially impressive because he beat a Democrat and not an independent. He names the Democrat, Hillary Clinton, and there was a Lock Her Up chant.

Trump is telling his usual tale about how he offered coal miners the possibility of working in tech, but they said no, they wanna dig coal. This time he added that he suggested taking the miners to Silicon Valley.

I don't believe I've heard that one before.

Trump is touting his steel and aluminum tariffs. He told the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday that they do not exist.

Trump is holding this rally, in theory, for congressman Mike Bost. He says that when Bost invited him to come to a US Steel furnace-reopening in the district -- "Sir could you come" -- he responded, "Who is this guy?"

Trump, with a new phrase, says this election is a choice between "resistance and results."

Trump says he is very careful about making sure he does not fall down on stairs and narrow passageways. He said there was some narrow runway at the venue, then said if he fell down it'd be bad because it'd be big headline news, then explained that he is therefore quite careful about walking and such.

*Shake head.  Sigh, then chuckle.*

Trump is again mocking politicians who urged him to make a quick deal with Canada ("pleeeease"). "You can't just run and make it. Canada's had an unbelievable deal. Canada, we love Canada. We love Canada. I actually like the prime minister. I do. Good guy."

Trump on the acrimonious negotiation with Mexico and Canada: "We all lived happily ever after."

Trump: "No caravans. We don't want caravans. We're not having caravans." There is a Build That Wall chant.

Trump tells his most frequent rally lie, saying that he has started The Wall (no) and that he has secured $4.8 billion for it (he got $1.6 billion for non-Wall border security projects this year, maybe getting $1.6 billion for next year).

Trump on the border: "You're going to be so happy next week. You're going to see something happen next week, you're going to be very happy. You're going to be very happy. And you know the military is going to the border."

Trump on the caravan: "If you look at that large group, sometimes it gets up to 17,000 people, they say. Today they said it's really gets bigger and bigger." I've seen an estimate of 7,000 this week, and read that it's shrinking; is there any basis for Trump's claim?

No, Daniel.  There isn't.  He just exaggerates.  But 17,000?!?!  I think he's addled besides being a liar.  I bet Fox News isn't even going higher than 7,000.  I think it's down to 3,600 or so at this point.

Trump lies that China has been "averaging $500 billion for many years" in trade surpluses. It has never once had a $500 billion surplus. This is the Trump lie I am most bored of noting.

Trump goes Real Estate Guy about North Korea: "That location's so good. Between China, Russia and South Korea. What a location. It's gonna be fantastic."

For what?

Trump mocks critics he says wanted him to "have a boxing match" with Putin in Helsinki. Then he adds, of this imaginary boxing match, that he "would have done just fine."

Trump: "This will be the election of the caravans, the Kavanaughs (sic), law and order, tax cuts, and you know what else? It's going to be the election of common sense."

Trump on, I think, Never Trump conservatives: "You have the haters and they continue to hate. These are foolish and very stupid people. Very stupid people. No, I see some of these guys, seriously..."

Yes, Trump is raging at Never Trump conservatives. He continues: "The losers that were...some guy named Kristol. Bill Kristol. He called it wrong from Day One."

"These are losers. Why do they put them on television?" "They're like fools." He says he has gotten these people everything they ever wanted, conservatism-wise, "And they still hate Donald Trump." He adds, "Fake."

Trump repeats his usual rally lie that California Democratic governor candidate Gavin Newsom wants "open borders" and so California is going to have a larger population than the US does now.

Dear God.

Trump on the caravan: "Some of those people are people that we don't want. I hate to say it. Some of those people are people we do not want. And some of those people I would love to have."

Oh, that's new.  What's that about?

Trump making no sense at all about the Democratic Party: "As we speak, the Democrat - not the Democratic - the Democrat...their name is the Democrat Party. It sounds so much more beautiful, 'the Democratic Party'...they should probably change their name."

Yeah.  Their name is the Democratic Party.

Trump on Black people: "They're smart. They're smart people. And take a look at the polls: not automatic anymore" for the Democrats.

He better be careful with this tack.  His base won't like it.

Trump with his usual Pocahontas rambling about Warren: "We can't use the name.,.I can't do it, she doesn't have any Indian blood. I have more than she does, and I have none...I can't call her Pocahontas anymore. But I think I will anyway."

Nyah, nyah.  They caaaaan't stop me.  Nyah, nyah.

Trump with his usual nonsense about how "Medicare for all" would "obliterate Medicare."

Winning, winning, tired of winning, disgusted of winning, the president does not care, he will keep on winning, for you.

Trump: "Think of where you are now compared to where you were three or four or five years ago. It's like a different planet."

Well, he's right about that!

Trump says that Illinois was settled by tough and strong pioneer women, then, ad-libbing, says, "Beautiful women. I'm not allowed to say that." Calling people beautiful and complaining he's not allowed to call people beautiful is a new staple of his speeches.

Because he's like a little kid getting away with something.  He's positively gleeful about getting away with doing something he's not supposed to do.

Trump amps up his promise to keep winning and winning: "It will be total victory. You know it."

Trump has concluded.

Thank God for small favors.

If the GOP loses control of the House (and especially of the Senate as well), they're going to drop Trump like a hot potato.  They're going along with him as long as they are able to push through their hateful, classist, racist agenda, but if they find out he's a liability, even Chuck Grassley will stop defending him.  If they do well, we're doomed to even worse, as hard as it is to imagine.

Also, Dale has created a guide to the lies: