Daniel Dale does Georgia

Again, excepting the tired and worn slew of lies, aka Trump's Greatest Hits, here's Dale's accounting:



Right Side Broadcasting, my favourite Trump-streamer, informs its loyal viewers that the "ultimate dream of any reporter" is to fly on Air Force One, "or at least of this reporter."

Wow. How about just saying, "We're here to kiss Trump's ass, so don't expect anything but praise."

Trump dutifully reads his line about how this is one of the most important elections of our lifetimes, then ad-libs, "I wouldn't say it's as important as '16, but it's right up there."

Trump notes how big the crowd is even behind the camera stand. He says that this isn't the case with "with other celebrities who come here, who don't have very big crowds." He is at Middle Georgia Regional Airport.

LOL

Trump is boasting about how he was always at the centre of the debate stage in the Republican primary two years ago. He mentions "Crooked Hillary." There is a Lock Her Up chant. "Ahhh, what a group. What a group. You're great people," Trump says.

Earlier than usual, Trump is doing the thing about how television camerapeople won't turn their cameras to show how big his crowds are. "They're fake news, they don't want to show it," he says to cheers.

Trump, adopting a mocking voice, makes fun of news people for saying that both he and Obama have "wonderful crowds." He suggests his are much bigger.

Sir Alert: Trump says he'll never forget when a Georgia farmer allegedly told him, pre-hurricane, "Sir, I've been growing cotton for 25 years, this is the best crop I've ever grown...this is going to take care of all my problems," but then, hurricane, no more cotton. Trump claims that the Georgia farmer who called him sir also said he had "the best cotton I've ever seen." Then Trump says, of this supposed remark, "Sounded like Trump, actually." He has these occasional moments where he seems to know his stories do not sound plausible. The point of the anecdote, I think, was that the hurricane negatively affected economic growth.

Big cheers for the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh. "Boy did he get treated badly," Trump says. He asks people if they saw the story about the self-discredited Kavanaugh accuser. The crowd chants "Lock Her Up" about the Kavanaugh accuser who admitted she made up her story. Trump tries to use the little-known Kavanaugh accuser's retraction to impugn the well-known accusers, saying, "How about the other ones?...You'll see others, now." Trump tries to motivate his supporters with the story [...] saying, "You gotta get to the polls on Tuesday, and you gotta vote."

Tears Alert: Trump says he was greeted backstage by a "very powerful, strong guy" who had "tears coming down on his face" and said "thank you, Mr. President, for saving our country." He adds: "Happens all the time...TEARS. TEARS." Trump says he asked the crying strong man when he has previously cried, and the crying strong man said he doesn't think he ever cried, even as a baby.

Trump says that members of Antifa have "little arms," not strong arms, and have to resort to using clubs. He says, "Where are the Bikers for Trump? Where are the police? Where are the military? Where are - ICE? Where are the Border Patrol?" Trump continuing to mock Antifa: "These are bad people. These are people causing problems, and the press doesn't want to talk about them."

Trump vaguely floats his conspiracy theory about the caravan: "Ask yourself, how do you think that formed?" Trump said he had Pence call up the leaders of Latin American countries where caravans have formed, and that Pence said, "We pay you hundreds of millions of dollars a year, which is probably just stolen." I doubt Pence said the last part if he said anything. Trump gleeful: "You saw that barbed wire going up. That barbed wire. Yes sir, we have barbed wire going up. Because you know what, we're not letting these people invade our country."

This is one of the crazier things.  No wall is being built, but according to pictures, the US military is actually rolling out barbed wire somewhere on the Texas border.   I don't suppose the migrants are smart enough to cross somewhere else.  Or maybe we're going to put barbed wire across the whole of the Mexican border and call it a wall.  Maybe that's why he keeps saying it's only going to cost several hundred thousand dollars, when the cost estimates are actually over $20 million.

Trump, referring to the green farmer version of his campaign hat, says he has indeed made farmers great again.

Trump says he used to hear about this "horrendous" blue wave, but "I haven't heard the term blue wave" recently, but if his supporters don't vote, "I'm going to look very bad with this statement."

Trump points out that Brian Kemp cares about veterans and talks to him about them a lot. He adds: "Sometimes I say, 'Brian, we gotta talk about another subject, please, Brian.'"

Jesus.

Trump baselessly: "If Stacey Abrams gets in, your Second Amendment is, is - gone. Gone. Stacey and her friends will get rid of it." He suggests people will come knocking on their door and say "please give us all guns right now."

Christ.

I guess if he thinks people believe he can wipe out the 14th amendment with an Executive Order, they'll believe a Georgia governor can get rid of the 2nd.

Trump says Stacey Abrams will turn Georgia into Venezuela. He says this about a lot of Democrats who will not turn their respective jurisdictions into Venezuela. Trump, attacking Stacey Abrams, says Oprah, who campaigned for her, used to be his friend until he ran for office.

Trump lies that he was on Oprah's show in its last week because she had on "her five most important people." He was on the show 3.5 months before it ended: her last show was on May 25, 2011; Trump appeared on Feb. 7, 2011. This is the fourth time Trump has lied that he was on Oprah's show in its last week, but it's the first time he's claimed it was because he was super-important to Oprah.

Trump asks mockingly if Elizabeth Warren is still running for president. He says her DNA test decision shows she could not deal with the leaders of foreign countries.

???  Whatever.

He asks Ohio to elect Mike DeWine, saying Ohio is probably listening to him here in Georgia.

Trump on reducing drug prices: "We're cutting out the middleman. The middle man and woman, I guess, right? We're cutting out the middleman and middlewoman."

Jesus Christ.

Trump says that when he meets with "kings and queens and princes and we meet on occasion with a president and a prime minister," "every one of them," "practically," comes into the Oval and says congratulations on "the incredible job you've done with the economy."

LOL.  Sure they do.  LOL.

Trump, getting a bit confusing in his nonsense, says that even "the Democrats," when they aren't on television or in public, say they can't believe how much he's accomplished, "and they want to stop it as fast as possible."

Trump has concluded. He has another rally in a couple hours in Tennessee.

My vote for most interesting moments in that one: Trump's lies and fearmongering about Stacey Abrams on guns and immigration; Trump's insistence that he too was once important to Oprah.

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

UPDATE:  He's well on this men AND WOMEN kick now.  I think he's doing it to be sarcastic, even though I'm not hearing his tone.  It's just a very Trump thing to do.  Drawing attention to it, making it an over-production.

Daniel Dale's parsing of the Axios HBO interview gives us this: