Trump in Topeka last night:
This is also indicative of the GOP paving the road for the rise of the autocrat: one party rule.
Trump again falsely says there were only 200 anti-Kavanaugh protesters today. He urges voters to go out in November and render their verdict on Democrats' conduct during the Kavanaugh controversy. He warns that this is how they'll behave if they get power.
Trump: "The Democrats have become too extreme and too dangerous to govern. Republicans believe in the rule of law, not the rule of the mob." (This is new-ish language, though in keeping with his recent themes.) The crowd chants "drain the swamp."
Trump with a comprehensive lie about Democrats: "Essentially they want to impose socialism - Venezuela - dismantle law enforcement and eliminate our borders." None of this is true.
Trump lies for the 30th time that wages are rising for the first time in 19 years. Wages have been rising steadily since 2014.
Sir alert: Trump, with a ridiculous lie, says that he was advised that today is so historic, with Kavanaugh being confirmed, that he should cancel his Kansas rally, but he decided he wouldn't do that. "They called me, they said, Sir we're signing the next Supreme Court Justice." "So they said, 'Sir do you mind cancelling Kansas tonight?' I said, 'NO WAY I'm cancelling Kansas, no way. No way.'" This story is obviously entirely fictional.
"After what I just did for you with the new deal with Mexico and Canada," Trump says, his margin of victory in Kansas should "double."
Trump, with some unhelpful-sounding remarks about Kansas Republican governor candidate Kris Kobach, says he'll put Kobach in his administration "in two seconds" if Kobach loses, and was angry that Kobach ran. "I hope he loses," Trump says. Then says he doesn't really mean that.
Trump on Watkins's opponent: "His name is Paul Davis. He's not good. He's not good, you know that." He says a vote for Davis is a vote for Schumer, Pelosi and "the legendary Maxine Waters." Waters, a Black woman, is the member he adds to his Schumer-Pelosi warning at every rally.
What I think happened here: Trump's prepared text included his usual language about Democrats signing up for an "open borders agenda," but Trump decided mid-sentence to lie that there is a bill called The Open Borders Bill.
Trump, whose administration is in court arguing that Obamacare's pre-existing conditions protections are unconstitutional, promises again to take care of Americans with pre-existing conditions. As usual, he provides no details at all.
Trump says that people who won't talk about who they support with pollsters are Trump voters. He says he's not sure if he should be happy about that, but it's true.
Trump: "Pocahontas, Pocahontas. I've got more Indian blood in me than Pocahontas, and I have none." Mocking Warren, Trump says he too has high “Indian” cheekbones
Trump lies that he's hitting potential Democratic opponents "so hard" that they are "disappearing," so he has to be softer, so he doesn't eliminate easy prey.
Trump is fantasizing at length about beating up Joe Biden. "He's down, and he'll never get up," he narrates.
Trump is now mocking Richard Blumenthal, who lied about having served in Vietnam, as "Da Nang Dick." But Trump, as usual, adds his own lies, inventing a whole war-battle story he falsely claims Blumenthal told.
The president: "Connecticut's such a mess right now...you gotta see, it's a mess."
Trump acknowledges for the first time that Blumenthal served in the Marine Reserve. Trump, who also got five deferments, did not serve at all.
Trump lies that Brett Kavanaugh was "#1 at Yale." Yale doesn't do class rankings, but Kavanaugh, who graduated cum laude, wasn't close to the top.
As usual, Trump is criticizing the media coverage of his work with "Chairman Kim," saying he's done a lot, stopping missile and nuclear testing and more, in a short period of time. He shouts, "THE FAKE NEWS SAYS WHY AREN'T YOU GOING FASTER?" Trump repeats his lie that Obama was about to go to war with North Korea, and he asked Obama if they'd at least tried to talk to Kim, but "somebody" in the Obama administration told him that that hadn't occurred to them.
Trump is telling his usual story about how he gleefully ignored foreign leaders' pleas not to move the embassy to Jerusalem. "You know the story. I refused to take their phone calls."
Trump lies again that he built a US embassy in Jerusalem for "about $400,000." The required renovations of the existing diplomatic building will cost a minimum of $21 million.
Trump says that NFL players will "still hate me" even though he fixed this NFL dispute with Canada and thus players will get more money, but he doesn't care as long as they stand for the national anthem.
Trump urges people to "reject the Democrat politics of anger and division and destruction and to reclaim America's true heritage." He says "we're losing that with these crazy loco people." That's at least his sixth "loco" of the week.
Trump again says that a person said that he's delivered even more than he promised. What happened was he started saying that himself a while ago, then started attributing it to an unnamed person.
Trump talking about the (white) people who settled Kansas: "Strong women. Strong women. Stronnng. I'm sorry, fellas. Stronger than the men. I'm sorry, fellas."
I've left off many of the tweets (as I always do in these posts), particularly ones where Trump is repeating same lies he tells in every rally.
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