Trump referencing Minneapolis cops' Cops for Trump shirts: "Cops love Trump. Trump loves cops."
Trump makes fun of former FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, dramatically depicting their romantic relationship. He then criticizes "phony polls" and "crooked writers."
Trump is telling a Darling story, a cousin of the Sir story, about how he told the First Lady, darling, that he was finally going to get "respect" from the media after he was elected, but instead coverage got worse.
Trump: "I'm energized. Because we're draining the swamp."
"These people are sick, I'm telling you. They're sick," Trump says of Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi, who are booed loudly.
After criticizing Schiff's second-person rendition of his Ukraine call, Trump does a fictional second-person rendition of what Pelosi supposedly said after seeing the rough transcript of his Ukraine call, claiming she said, "What the hell? Nobody ever told me this was the call."
The president to residents of Minneapolis: "You've got a rotten mayor. You've gotta change your mayor. You've got a bad mayor."
Trump congratulates police officers at length for evicting a protester very quickly, then moves on to insulting Joe Biden. "If you can't beat him in a debate, you can't be president," he says.
Trump calls Hunter Biden a "loser" while questioning his business dealings in China. "Your father was never considered smart," he adds. Trump on Biden: "He was only a good vice president because he understood how to kiss Barack Obama's ass."
Trump criticized Hunter Biden at length, then returned to Joe Biden. He claims the elder Biden "sold out America" by dealing weakly with China. He claims "we're respected again as a nation" now that he is president.
Trump: "Isn't it much better when I go off script? Isn't that better? So much better." (Cheers.) "It's just -- it's just -- hey folks, the greatest buyer of advertisements of the history of the world: Mike Lindell, My Pillow. I have never seen so many ads." With an abrupt "anyway," Trump transitions from the My Pillow guy to the "lawless political establishment" that will "try to frame you."
Trump on Pelosi: "She's either got one of two problems. She's either really stupid, or she's really lost it, or maybe there's a certain dishonesty in there someplace."
Projection.
Trump is again bitterly and vaguely attacking the integrity of the special counsel's investigation. "They ruined people. They destroyed people. Good people," he says. "They're vicious, horrible, and the media was behind every single step." There are boos.
Trump is telling the story about how his old friends are now "afraid" to speak to him because he's president, and won't call him "Donald" anymore, only president. "I WANT SOMEBODY TO CALL ME DONALD," he says. The crowd starts a loud DO-NALD chant.
They misunderstood. He was only saying that to point out that everyone rightfully calls him "Mr. President."
Trump says he'll promise not to serve "more than 16 years," then says he's only kidding, to troll the media.
I'm convinced he thinks he can go beyond 8 years.
Trump, shouting, says he was asked what nation is toughest to deal with, North Korea etc. etc., and: "I said you're not gonna believe this: it's -- the USA is the toughest nation to deal with! The USA. It's true. Because we're dealing with some very sick and deranged people."
Trump is mocking articles about how he profits from people staying at his hotels for piddling amounts in the hundreds of dollars. He then mocks the word "emoluments." He claims he's lost "billions" from being president.
Trump is criticizing Ilhan Omar for some of her comments about Israel. "I'm very angry at you people right now" for electing a person like that, he says. "She is a disgrace to our country." The president is quoting at length from the right-wing blog Powerline, citing its accusations about Ilhan Omar's family history.
Trump: "You know, Hispanic, they understand borders better than anybody. Better than we do."
He's actually been making fewer objectively false claims than usual, so far. It's more incendiary/ranty/odd than provably inaccurate.
Trump boasts about his victory in the election three years ago. For more than the 25th time as president, he says the Electoral College score was 306 to "223." Before faithless electors, it was 306 to 232.
Trump claims that if he'd actually wanted to win the popular vote, he would have gone to "four states, maximum," instead of all the states he did go to. ?
So, after Minnesota, this time around, which other three states is he going to limit his campaigning to?
Trump's pitch for re-election: "It's like a tree, you plant it, you plant it, it has to go, but it needs a little -- that's why we need the four additional years. It has to grab on and catch. So they can't destroy it."
After slamming Fox in the morning, Trump praises Fox and Friends hosts by name, then Jesse Watters, then Tucker Carlson, then "the legendary Sean Hannity," then Laura Ingraham, then Maria Bartiromo, and "the great Lou Dobbs," and "Gregg," and "we can't forget Judge Jeanine."
Trump says his dad told him not to say "cops," because it's disrespectful; you say police officers.
No doubt he had some encounters that resulted in that advice.
Trump calls up the head of the Minneapolis police union, who he says he saw praising him on Fox and Friends, and other officers wearing Cops for Trump shirts.
Trump is criticizing the government for allowing large numbers of Somali refugees to come to Minnesota. He promises local governments a greater say in who gets to live there, then boasts of reducing refugee resettlement by 85%.
He's specifically talking about Somalians because Minneapolis' representative is Ilhan Omar, a Somali refugee.*
Trump says he won't make the immigration mistakes he says European countries made, so will not allow "a violent ideology to take root in our country, on our shores." He doesn't name the ideology, but then touts his (Muslim-focused) travel ban.
Trump claims he's building the wall "faster than anyone ever anticipated it could be built." Zero new miles had been erected as of September 30 where barriers hadn't been existed before; there were about 70 miles of replacement barriers.
Trump: Turkey's campaign is "very tough," and "we get along with the Kurds," but don't forget "they're also fighting for their land."
Trump is now talking about letters he signs to the families of soldiers who are killed. "Dear Mr. and Mrs. Smith from Arkansas. Dear Mr. and Mrs. Jones from Alabama. Dear Mr. and Mrs...somebody from some great state. I'm sorry to inform you your son has been killed in combat."
Trump complains of "blue on green" killings where local soldiers the US is training turn around and kill American soldiers. He says he knows each and every one of these incidents. (It's usually known as "green on blue.")
Trump falsely says "most" captured ISIS fighters "came from Europe." The military says about 8,000 of about 10,000 detainees are Iraqi and Syrian nationals. Trump himself has previously put the European number at 800.
Trump says US wars in the Middle East "produced only chaos and bloodshed," and all the US "blood and treasure" have only made the region "less safe, less stable, and less secure."
Is that the only true thiing he said during the rally? Aside from the fact that he thought he would "finally" get "respect" from the media when he became president, that is.
Trump again promises to cure childhood cancer and end the AIDS epidemic in America within 10 years. "Nobody thought that could be done," he says as if it has already happened, then adds, "It's gonna be done."
Trump has finished his speech after about one hour and 40 minutes. That was his longest campaign rally.
Chopper talk before the rally:
He probably doesn't know.
The warm-up acts included Mike Pence, and this idiot, who in 2016 the American public was told he would run the Trump Organization and stay out of politics.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
*UPDATE:
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