gonna do a video thread on Trump's speech in Dayton, Ohio. Follow along for clips 👇
"Please rise for the horribly and unfairly treated January 6 hostages"
Trump's first words in Dayton: "Thank you very much, and you see the spirit from the hostages. And that's what they are -- hostages."
He suggests he'll be issuing pardons on the first day of his presidency.
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"He's getting some very tough Democrat fake treatment, and we're not gonna stand for it" -- Trump on reports linking Bernie Moreno to an Adult Friend Finder profile
"How about a couple more indictments, Joe, you dumb sonofa ... " -- Trump
a fan of the guy who repeatedly defamed a woman he was found liable of sexually assaulting (not to mention the dozen+ other accusations against Trump) is holding a sign reading, "No Means No, Creepy Joe."
Trump claims that crime is down throughout the world because other countries "sent us their criminals" (Crime is actually also down in the US)
according to Trump, migrants from the Congo are crossing the border every single day -- he shares this same anecdote at each rally
"I don't know if you call them people ... these are animals" -- Trump on undocumented immigration
"We're gonna have the largest deportation effort in history" -- Trump dehumanizes migrants some more and then starts reading The Snake
Trump botches reading the word "bite"
is Hannity going to personally carry out the terrorist attack or what?
Trump personally addresses President Xi and promises 100 percent tariffs on certain imported cars
"Any Catholic that votes for this numbskull is crazy" -- Trump on Joe Biden, a lifelong devout Catholic
"Nobody comes close to Trump" -- Trump claims he's persecuted more than Abraham Lincoln, who was assassinated
"I don't give a shit ... just like we did to ISIS, we hit him hard" -- Trump on Ron DeSantis
"Don't pay the teleprompter company" -- Trump, having a hard time reading the teleprompter in the wind, muses about stiffing the company that set it up
TRUMP: Katie Britt -- who liked the job she did the other night?
THE CROWD: 🦗🦗🦗
"Don't pay these suckers please ... I think Joe Biden put them in" -- Trump is riffing now since he apparently can't read the teleprompter
Trump, who repeatedly proposed cuts to the safety net while he was president, promises to not cut the safety net
Trump on JB Pritzker: "He's too busy eating. He wants to eat all the time. 'I'll have 5 burgers please.' Who the hell orders 5 burgers?"
Trump, serving up an epic word salad as he struggles to see the teleprompter, has a hard time saying "the Rolling Stones"
"It's spelled 'Fani,' like your ass" -- Trump on Fani Willis
Trump lies that Adam Schiff "made up" the phone call with Zelenskyy that culminated in his first impeachment
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Trump claims that he had a deal with President Xi where Chinese dealers who send drugs to the US were going to be put to death but it fell apart when he lost the election
"They changed the name of fort Robert E Lee!" -- Trump is now stanning for Robert E Lee
"Anybody that changes the name of the Cleveland Indians to the Cleveland Guardians should not be a senator, should not be a governor" -- Trump attacks Matt Dolan, though he can't seem to remember what office he's running for
Trumpism in a nutshell
Trump says Ukraine aid should be a loan, so "they'll be a little bit nice." He then calls Zelenskyy "a salesman."
Bernie Moreno gets on stage and starts pathetically fawning over Trump
JD Vance gets on stage and pull a stat out of his rear about Biden only creating jobs for foreigners (by every metric I'm aware of the jobs market is stronger now than it ever was under Trump, so I can understand the desperation)
Trump on Kristi Noem: "You're not allowed to say she's beautiful, so I'm not going to say that."
"They hit him very hard with false stuff ... on behalf of our country, I'd like to apologize" -- Trump defends JR Majeski, who dropped out of a House race after reports emerged about him lying about serving in combat in Afghanistan
"What we did was a miracle" -- Trump on his handling of covid
He then claims the stock market is only high right now because of his strong polling
Trump: "I'm going to indemnify all police officers and law enforcement officials throughout the United States"
Trump promises to defund schools that have vaccine mandates
*reposting from earlier in thread because of typo
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appending this to my thread because this quote is worth highlighting on its own
OMG I missed this one. Also needs to be added to the thread.
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