Remember: what you see and hear isn't what's happening*

Speaking with reporters in Mississippi, where he held two rallies for Republican Sen. Cindy-Hyde Smith, the president claimed that three border patrol officers “were very badly hurt, getting hit with rocks and stones” Sunday during a melee with migrants attempting to enter the United States at a border crossing in San Diego.

“We’ve had some very violent people and frankly we don’t want those people in our society,” Trump said, according to a pool report. “We don’t want those people in our country. We have tremendous violence.”

Trump’s account contradicted U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan, who said in a statement Monday that agents and officers “effectively managed an extremely dangerous situation involving over 1,000 individuals,” adding: “They did so safely and without any reported serious injuries on either side of the border.”

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“You really say, why is a parent running up into an area where they know the tear gas is forming and it’s going to be formed and they’re running up with a child?” Trump said. “In some cases, you know, they’re not the parents. These are people, they call them grabbers.”

  Politico

That's probably not the term he really wants people to remember.



More from his WSJ interview:

Daniel Dale also summarized Trump's second rally for Hyde-Smith in Mississippi.  Two rallies for her in one day.  If she loses, that's going to look particuarly bad for Trump.




YMCA?  Obviously they don't know that's a gay anthem.

Mike Pence is here. He says, "Mississippi and America need Cindy Hyde-Smith back in the United States Senate." "I think there's only one way you can describe the last two years," Mike Pence says. "It's been two years of action." "We've already started to build that wall," Pence says, adopting Trump's regular lie, and the crowd chants Build That Wall, and Pence says, as Trump does, "Oh, we're buildin' it." Pence concludes: with Gov. Phil Bryant in the state house, with Donald Trump in the White House, "and with God's help, we will make Mississippi safer and more prosperous than ever before." Now Trump.

Fake snow falls on Trump. He marvels at it and swats it away in dramatic fashion. He begins, "Look, snow, I didn't know what was going on, this is, I said, are you sure this is indoor, that beautiful snow looks so real, that's the end of my suit, that's the end of my hair..."

Trump says there are "thousands of people outside." There is not a good record of thousands of people being outside when he says this.

Trump says what is happening is "frankly unprecedented," then tries and fails to say unprecedented again, saying something like, "What's happening is un-prentice."

"We are respected like at no time before," Trump says. He says foreign leaders walk in and tell him, "Mr. President, it's incredible what's happened with your country in such a short time."

Trump on the midterms: "We got very little credit from the fake news media. Very little credit. They talked about the House. But the people I campaigned for in the House - which was very few, I can't, look I'm one person."

Trump is rattling off Senate and governor victories. He says if they win tomorrow it will be a 53-47 Senate margin, "and nobody can believe it." (Everybody can believe it.) Trump: "We had three seats even four seats that were so close. We almost won. In areas that a lot of people say don't bother contesting. We almost won in four states that a lot of people say don't bother, you can't win." This did not happen.

Trump alleges "a little tricky business going on" in the midterms. He does not say what he's talking about.

Trump again calls Sen. Lindsey Graham's fiery pro-Kavanaugh speech "beautiful." "He hit a chord that you hit very rarely in the world of politics or anything else," he says.

Seems like Lindsey's campaign for a job in the Trump administration is going well.

Trump boasts of how many bad people ICE has arrested during his tenure. Sounding a bit Oprah-like, he says, pointing at people in the crowd, "And I don't want that job. And you don't want it. And you don't want it. And you don't want it. And YOU might take it, right there."

Trump cites stats on illegal immigrant crimes, baselessly rejects data on low immigrant criminality. "You know you hear these stories about oh, they don't commit crimes, we commit crimes, they don't commit crimes. Always it's us. No no, it doesn't work that way. It's fake news."

Trump boasts of the Mexico-Canada trade deal, then threatens Mexico and Canada with tariffs again: "But of course they have to treat us fairly. Otherwise we'll just tax their product when it comes in. You know that. You know that. You know that. You know what I'm talking about."

Trump, who always boasts about how he has supposedly ended steel dumping, now says, "They can dump all they want. I want them to dump a lot." His argument is: "Dump all you want, you're gonna pay a lot." But the dumpers, like China, do not pay the tariff; Americans pay it.

Trump again calls NAFTA a disaster and his USMCA, which is very NAFTA, incredible. He repeats, of the name USMCA, "like the song, YMCA, right."

So, that's why they play it.  Hilarious.

"Drug prices are starting to come down," Trump says without any evidence I'm aware of. An Associated Press investigation of brand-name prescription drugs found 96 price increases for every price reduction in the first seven months of this year.

Trump does his usual exaggeration of how dire the experimental-medication situation was before the new Right to Try law, wrongly saying people had "no hope" and "we never let anyone touch it." Trump's FDA chief testified that the FDA approved 99% of pre-Right to Try requests.

Trump says nobody has ever done so much in two years.

Which is not a lie.

Trump: "You still have deep state, but one by one we're getting them out. You have deep state bad people. You have a lot of phony stuff going on. But you know what? One by one, we're winning. We're winning winning winning."

Trump said win win win win and now the crowd is chanting win win win win.

Trump has concluded. Like his rally this afternoon, this one was much shorter than usual.

He's just not feeling it lately. The walls are closing in.

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

* Statement by the president.