Here we go again...

Trump's first words: "There is something going on, Ohio, that they're not talking about. There is something going on. You look at this gigantic room, and there are many more people outside, trying to get in." "I did a lotta stops. I saw a lot of people. I saw a lot of Make America Great Again hats. Lotta hats. I saw a lot of spirit. Like this country hasn't seen. What we've done, this is the greatest political movement of all time, in this country." "We have a lot of great, great sound bites," Trump warns his future 2020 opponent.

Trump calls Dem Ohio governor candidate Richard Cordray "a bad person who will do a terrible job." He adds, "It's true. He's a bad person."

Trumps says that with presidents, prime ministers, kings, queens, and "some dictators, but we don't mention that," they all tell him immediately that he has the hottest economy anywhere in the world.

Trump says the midterms are a choice between a “socialist nightmare for our country" or “the American dream.”

Trump re-touts his imaginary 10% tax cut, says that people should "put it in your heads" that they can't do this tax cut unless they win the House.

Trump on midterm elections: "The midterm elections used to be like boring, didn't they? Do you even remember what they were? People say 'midterms,' they say, 'what is that, what is it?' Now that's like the hottest thing. These guys are making a fortune because of me. And you."

"And you."  LOL.  He hasn't totally forgotten where he is.

"Who ever even heard of midterms? They don't even know what it is. I've had a lot of people say, 'I don't know what midterm is, but now I'm watching every single minute.'"

Jesus.  A lot of people said they don't know what midterms are.  The voices in his head again.

Trump says, "In a sense, I am on the ticket."

There you go.

Trump lies that Democrats will try to shut down steel mills if they're elected. He then lies, "Take away your health care - you can forget it. You're gonna live in a socialist world."

Well, they'd be better off.  In a socialist world, they'd have health care.

Trump on his time in Ohio as a young business guy: "I won't tell you...but I on occasion would be known to sneak into Kentucky, because I liked Kentucky. I like Kentucky for all the wrong reasons, but I like Kentucky. I like it." Does anyone have any idea what this means?

OK, so maybe he HAS forgotten where he is.  That article talks about a photography exhibit showing "homosexual acts and nude children."  It says, "countless Cincinnati residents [cross] the river to go to burlesque clubs and procure cheap liquor and erotic videos in northern Kentucky."

Cincinnati may be the most sexually restrictive big city in the country. There are not adult bookstores, no peep shows, no nude dancing clubs; residents cannot buy Hustler magazine or X-rated videos.

[...]

Now what was once a playground is more like a sandbox. There are no peep shows, no adult movie theater, no adult bookstores, not even any X-rated videos. Cincinnati residents have to drive a little farther into Kentucky for those.

  NYT

Daring anyone to call him on it. The thrill of getting away with something, especially something illicit and sex-related.

Trump gives an extended shout-out to Jim Jordan, praising his skills as a wrestler, and calls Jordan up to speak. (Jordan has been accused of ignoring sexual assault as a wrestling coach. ) Trump: "I love him defending me on television...he doesn't give a damn...BOOM BOOM BOOM."

Now Jim Jordan is speaking. He lies that Maxine Waters told people to harass anyone who supports Trump. (She called on people to verbally accost members of Trump's Cabinet.)

Trump complains that it's "politically incorrect" to call a woman beautiful, so he won't call his daughter Ivanka beautiful, "but she's really smart."

"That was some introduction," Ivanka Trump says.

WTF is SHE doing there?

"I never said she was beautiful," Trump says again about Ivanka, to laughs. He tells the story about how she got great marks in school even though she didn't even try.

Yeah, he said a lot more than that she was beautiful, and we'll skip over that for now.

Trump calls Cordray a disciple of Warren, wrongly says he was proven right that she has "no Indian blood" (I know it's weird to talk about "Indian blood"), says he therefore can't call her Pocahontas, but that he will still call her Pocahontas, because it's too good a name. Trump, just making stuff up, said that the renovated elevators at Cordray's CFPB were the "most expensive elevators in the history of the world." I asked Trump's CFPB about Trump's previous claim that they cost $50 million; they said that is not true at all.

And why would he be saying that?  I'd think he'd be bragging about how the elevators in Trump properites are the most expensive in the world.  ??

Trump falsely claims that anyone with money in any country with single-payer health care comes to the U.S. for surgeries or recovery. Even according to the contested numbers of a right-wing Canadian think tank, 99% of Canadians don't leave the country for any care in any year.

Trump is saying his usual very false things about Democrats and immigration. He calls these things that aren't happening "a lawless assault on our dignity."

Trump says foreign countries have been stealing American jobs "like we're babies. Like we're little babieeesss."

He's got a thing about "baby" being such an insult. He must keep picturing that big baby Trump blimp.

Trump starts to warn China that he could impose another $2...in tariffs, then stops himself, saying, "Should I say it? Should I say it? If I say it, it's a big story." The crowd eggs him to say it. He says, "Let's put it this way: it's a lot of money left."

His crowds are just like him when it comes to getting a thrill out of getting away with something.  So juvenile.

Trump: "I've actually kept more promises than I've made. When did you ever hear that from a politician? Maybe never. Never. It's true."

They've never heard a politician say that because it makes no fucking sense whatsoever.

Trump asks what other president would call up drug companies to get prices reduced, adding, "You think Hillary would do that? I don't think so." There is a very loud Lock Her Up chant.

Performance theater.  They're all a part of it.

Trump closing pitch: “Tuesday is your chance to send a message to the Democrat mob and to everyone who has made it their mission to denigrate our movement and to divide our great nation.”

Projection is his forté.

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