More lies and other nonsense
"I'm not thrilled, but after the election, they're all telling me were getting our wall the way we want it, so let's see what happens. Let's see what happens. Let's see if they produce." — Trumphttps://t.co/JJonJ6h6vP
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) September 21, 2018
Trump says he is going to "drain the swamp." There is a "drain the swamp" chant. He says "Wacky Jacky" again.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump throws a hat. People scream. I Want It That Way plays. "The president has a weird thing for Backstreet Boys or something," the host of the Right Side Broadcasting web stream says.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump says America is "being respected again," and the economy is the best ever, and if Hillary Clinton had won it would have been a "sad, sad period of time."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
"Except for a lot of the fake news that you see from these people back here" – BOOOO – "this is an incredible time for our country," Trump begins.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
"Poverty is plummeting," Trump boasts. Government report last week showed that the poverty rate dropped from 12.7% in 2016 to 12.3% in 2017.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump: "Remember the tears from the fake news media when it was obvious we were going to win. And you know what: they're still crying. Look at 'em, they're still crying. They're still crying. And let 'em cry. They don't know what the hell happened."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
For at least the 12th time, Trump falsely claims that presidents had failed to pass the Veterans Choice program for decades before him. (This time he says it took "46 years.") The Choice program was created in 2014 under Obama. Trump's law modified the program.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
This is the part of the rally where Trump, on-script, attacks the local Democratic candidate, providing material for the local Republicans' ads. It is usually followed by him no longer being on script any more.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump says the Democrats' new platform is "radical socialism," vowing, "I won't allow the United States of America to become the next Venezuela." There is a…"build that wall" chant.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
"We started the wall a year ago," Trump lies for the 35th time of the wall he has not started. "We've done a lot."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump lies that Democrats voted for a wall in 2006. They voted for fencing. The law was called the Secure Fence Act.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump mentions Hillary Clinton. There is a very loud "LOCK HER UP" chant, the loudest chant of the night.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump: "A lot of people think that I'm always angry at Congress. I'm angry at Democrats."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump slams the media at length, then lies, for the 6th time, that the red lights of their cameras are "starting to go off" because they don't like the criticism. No station has ever turned off its camera during his media criticism.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump says that without the "fake news," Democrats would not even get 5% of the vote. "I'll tell you. It's true," he concludes.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
For the 12th time, Trump lies that the New York Times apologized to its subscribers after the election. It made a sales pitch, not an apology.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump lies again that his election hurt the sales of the New York Times: "When we won, they suffered." The Times added 276,000 digital subscribers in the three months after the election.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump says that Americans voted to reject corrupt globalism: "Hey, I'm the president of the United States! I'm not. The president. Of the glooobe."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
This is Trump's most concerted rally pitch for his supporters to vote in the midterms, which he often makes only passingly. This time, he frames it as his own election: "I want to give a victory speech. I want to give a victory speech on the evening of Election Day."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
"We've created more than 400,000 manufacturing jobs," Trump says of the 348,000 manufacturing jobs created during his presidency.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
"Remember when President Obama said you can't have manufacturing jobs anymore," Trump falsely says of Obama's 2016 comments on PBS. Obama said some particular manufacturing jobs were gone, but boasted of how many he'd brought back and how many America still has.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump is boasting of how he told African-American voters, "WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO LOSE? WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO LOSE? REMEMBER?" He says he did it because African-Americans have "the worst education, the worst home ownership" and such.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
For the 26th time, Trump falsely says Asian unemployment is at a record low. (It was in May, but jumped back up to a higher level than at the end of the Obama era.) For the 27th time, Trump falsely says women's unemployment is at a 65-year low. (Again, was in May but jumped.)
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Donald Trump: "I'm an environmentalist."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump keeps recounting his 2016 election victory, twice speaking in the voice of a newscaster announcing that Donald Trump is the next president of the United States.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
"Democrats want to give welfare and free health care to illegal aliens," Trump says to boos, adding of Gavin Newsom, "How about this clown in California who's running for governor?"
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
"We have the cleanest air now in the world," Trump says of air the Environmental Performance Index ranks as the 10th-best in the world. "We have the cleanest water," Trump says of the U.S.'s 29th-ranked water.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump is again mounting an extended attack on Democrats' "Medicare for all" proposals, saying that would be an all-time disaster. We'll likely hear a lot of this for the next two years.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump is trying something new recently: arguing that "Democrats would bankrupt the safety net" with left-wing proposals and with proposals to pay for benefits for immigrants. After all he's proposed, he's positioning himself as the saviour of essential benefit programs.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump has concluded. He was stunningly dishonest by the standard of any other politician but on quite good behaviour for himself, and especially on-message in pleading for midterm turnout.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Sad! 