Trump in Dallas

This has been the same play at every rally he's ever had.

And still they love him.

Okay, this is a long one.  As always, I won't publish it all.  Daniel Dale's entire thread is here. 

Trump calls Democrats "hateful and enraged." He adds, "Crazy. They're crazy. They're crazy." He says he no longer believes the Democrats love America. Trump accuses Democrats of wanting to "indoctrinate our children." He says he knows "from personal experience": children come home and say "Mommy, Daddy, this is what I learned," and "you're going, Oh, no, don't tell me."

Trump again uses a tree metaphor in arguing for his re-election: "You plant a baby tree. It's gotta catch. Get that extra time -- we'll have more tax cuts." 

Yeah, for the guys at the top.

He goes on to say his wall is "going up rapidly," though no additional miles had been built as of the beginning of October.

Trump says he won't disparage media tonight: "I'm going to say, 'You're legitimate media.'" He then adds, "I don't actually mean that." He then talks about how the Academy Awards is now a failed enterprise because "it had stupid people" who criticized Trump. 

Trump: "I will never allow the IRS to be used as a political weapon -- except in the case of myself, where they use it against me." This is another case of him ad-lib-inserting nonsense about himself into a prepared text about other people. 

Trump boasts that he was the only one who noticed O'Rourke's hand and arm gestures. "Nobody noticed it. I noticed it. The flailer." 

Trump says that foreign leaders, including "dictators" who don't like to go by the title dictator, always tell him, "Sir, congratulations, sir, on what you've done." 

Trump with some of his most aggressive words about unmasking the federally protected whistleblower: "Who is the whistleblower? Who is the whistleblower? We have to know! Is the whistleblower a spy?"  For at least the 22nd time in the last two-and-a-half weeks, Trump falsely says, "The whistleblower got it all wrong." The whistleblower was highly accurate. We know this because of the rough transcript released by the White House itself.

Trump falsely says China has never spent more than $20 billion in a year on US agriculture. It spent $25.9 billion in 2012. Trump usually says it never spent more than $16 billion.  Trump is saying his usual false things about how tariffs have cost Americans "nothing" and China is "eating" all of them.

Trump after bashing Hunter Biden's China business dealings after flying there on Air Force Two: Can you imagine if Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump or Ivanka Trump? (He trails off.)

Why, yes, I think we can.

Trump on the Bidens: "You-know-what and pillage. It's the R-word. You-know-what and pillage. You know what word I'm talking about, right? I don't want to use it 'cause they'll say it's a horrible word that Trump used." No evidence Joe Biden ever profited from his son's dealings.

Not only that, but now there'll be right-wing conspiracies about the Bidens raping women.

 Trump on Texas: "You had a hurricane two years ago now. They (local Republicans) still keep calling me for money. 'Sir, could you give us another...Thank you for being so generous to Texas, sir.'" As he used to, he says that Hurricane Harvey had "the biggest dump of water." "You made a fortune on the hurricane," Trump tells Texas of federal recovery money.

Trump says sir a lot, then begins railing about Hillary Clinton's emails.

Trump tells his now-standard Sir story about a general telling him "we don't have ammunition." The military did say there was a shortage of certain precision bombs at the time, but the broad "no ammunition" claim is obviously false.  

Trump is telling a extremely nonsensical story about how people tried to make a deal with Turkey for 15, 20 years but couldn't, but he got it done. The Syrian Civil War is less than 10 years old. This is an extremely narrow deal related to Turkey's offensive this month.

And it wasn't a deal, unless you call doing Turkey's bidding a deal.

Trump says that a bit of war was necessary in northern Syria: "Sometimes you have to let 'em fight a little while." He likens the situation to a childhood scrap: "Like two kids in a lot...let 'em fight...and then you pull 'em apart."

Jesus wept.

"Bring our soldiers back home. Bring our soldiers back home," Trump says. He is not currently doing so, having deployed 1,800 more to Saudi Arabia and redeployed the troops being withdrawn from Syria to elsewhere in the region. 

Trump tells the wrong version of his story about Mexican soldiers deployed to combat migration, saying there are 27,000 "on our border." The 25,000+ are divided between Mexico's northern and southern border. CBP's Mark Morgan says it's about 15,000 on the US border. 

Trump claims to have spent more than $2.5 trillion on the armed forces. That total appears to include the defense appropriation for the 2020 fiscal year, which hasn't been completed yet. (And the 2020 fiscal year just started.) 

Trump claims to have ended a "war" on American energy, then boasts of the US becoming the #1 producer of oil and gas in the world. That accomplishment happened in 2012, under Obama 

Trump says his usual semi-comedic wrong thing about how the use of wind power means that you can't watch TV if the wind isn't presently blowing. The Energy Department has a whole thing on its website explaining that this thought is wrong. 

That's okay.  His followers don't read.

Trump says he can be very presidential, more than any other president except for Abraham Lincoln in his hat, and "all you have to do is act like a stiff." He acts out being a stiff.

Trump is recounting election night 2016 in great detail [...] Trump is shouting about his preparations for the 2016 debates. He said he fired his debate coach in about 10 minutes, because he advised Trump to never interrupt anyone, and you can't beat Ted Cruz without interrupting.

Trump falsely claims that "we didn't win any cases" at the WTO before him, not "anything for years, practically." Trump's own Council of Economic Advisers said in a February report that the US had won 86% of the cases it has brought since 1995. 

Trump falsely claims that presidents "always" have no judicial vacancies to fill. Presidents usually have dozens. He then tells a Sir story about how he had "142." It was 104. 

And I don't suppose he mentioned that was because Mitch McConnell wouldn't bring up Obama's nominees for a vote.

Trump says Obama leaving him judicial vacancies shows that he was a bad president. [...] He complains about the claim that Obama was a "wonderful president."

Trump does his usual thing about how his presidency will end "in 16 years, maybe 20" -- there are some cheers -- but how he's only kidding to drive people crazy. 

Trump tells his usual lie about how he got Veterans Choice passed after others had tried and failed for 50 years. Obama signed Choice into law in 2014. 

Trump repeats his vow to end the AIDS epidemic within 10 years, falsely claiming the Obama administration "spent no money on that."

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