Let's do it! Thread here.
"Under Republican leadership, America is being respected again," Trump says, then discusses how big the crowd is.
Trump hails the release of Andrew Brunson. "I think he's going to be in great shape," Trump says. "He went through a lot. But he's on his way back. We've done that with a lot. We've had a lot of success. North Korea. Egypt. Remember Aya. We bring a lot of people back."
Trump: "We are viewing now, for the first time in many decades, a phenomena called, so simply, America First."
Trump repeats his regular lie about Obama saying manufacturing jobs are "gone" and "dead." Obama said no such thing. 
Trump complain-boasts about the number of cameras on him. He asks the crowd to imagine "having" to "do this every night." He says, "One little mistake, one little mistake, and they try to destroy your entire career." There are sympathetic boos.
Trump says manufacturing jobs are returning to the U.S. from Canada.
Trump on Africa, which Melania just visited: "They need help. They definitely need help. It's both beautiful and sad. It's got every kind of emotion."
Trump on Kavanaugh: "Did he get treated badly and unfairly or what? Horrible. And I'll tell you what. He's done us a tremendous service...because we are more energized as Republicans than I think ever before. I think ever before."
Trump claims "an angry Democrat mob" wanted to destroy Kavanaugh even before he was selected. "These. Are Bad. People. We can't let this happen to our country."
Trump calls Elizabeth Warren "Pocahontas," as he does every time even though Native American groups have told him they think that is racist.
The 2016 election, etc.
Trump says he thinks he won Ohio, which he won by eight points, by "nine or ten points." He does this habitually - add a pointless little increase to an already-impressive number.
Trump lies about his claim that Democrats are "the party of crime": "Nobody even challenges me. Not even the fake news media."
Trump on Dem Ohio governor candidate Richard Cordray: "A very bad guy...he's a bad guy." He continues, "Am I allowed to say some bad things about Cordray?" He then claims that Cordray spent "$250 million" renovating a CFPB building the GOP says was renovated for $145 million.
Trump continuing his vague attack on Cordray: "He's a super-liberal. Why do you do that? Why do you do that? OK. Go with DeWine, please...(Cordray) was BAD. You don't need him in Ohio."
Yes, Trump talked about this near the beginning - expressed his sympathies, vowed an effective response.
We're on the part where Trump lets local candidates speak. Rep. Jim Renacci, running against Sherrod Brown for Senate, mentions Hillary Clinton. There is a Lock Her Up chant. Later there is a Drain The Swamp chant.
Renacci is one of the Republican candidates who really struggles when he tries to do a Trumpish red-meat speech. Almost palpable discomfort.
There is a Build That Wall chant. Trump says, "A border wall, which is moving faster than anyone would believe...it's happening, it's moving, we have made so much progress, we will finish the wall." It does not exist, it is not moving, it has not started.
Rep. Steve Chabot: "God bless Kanye West." Also Rep. Steve Chabot: "You know how many liberals it takes to screw in a light bulb? None, because they'd prefer to stay in the dark." There is genuine laughter.
Trump repeats his now-regular nonsense about Democrats' Medicare-for-all proposals, saying they would "utterly destroy Medicare and rob our seniors of the benefits."
Trump on the 378,000 manufacturing jobs added since his inauguration: "We've added nearly 600,000 brand new beautiful manufacturing jobs. Right?"
Trump reminds the crowd that he told African-Americans, "what do you have to lose?" He claims, extremely incorrectly: "They all believe it now."
Trump claims he is going to "get the African-American vote." He adds, struggling a bit to keep a straight face: "And it's true, Kanye West -- what he did was pretty amazing yesterday. Pretty amazing."
Trump is reminding the crowd that Sherrod Brown votes against him. He notes that Brown sometimes praises him and his trade policy, but says it's useless given how he votes.
Trump on the Space Force: "Very important. Very important. That's very important. Hate to say it, but very soon, that's where it's going to be at. It's going to be space. Defense, offense, everything."
Trump's vagueness about the Space Force is challenged only by his vagueness about health policy.
Trump promises to "defend the ballot box for American citizens," a reference to his unfounded claims of mass voter fraud?, "and throw vicious MS-13 gangs the HELL out of our country."
Trump lies that MS-13 members -- "MS-13 garbage" -- came into the country "by the tens of thousands" before he took office. The government has had a consistent estimate of 10,000 MS-13 members, and not all are immigrants; the gang was founded in the U.S.
For the 22nd time, Trump lies about the green card lottery, wrongly suggesting foreign governments "put" bad apples in and that nobody knows who they are. People enter themselves because they want to immigrate. The lottery is done by the U.S. Winners are background-checked.
Trump on previous presidents: "We've had a lot of normals."
Trump said this in the context of claiming that normal presidents would have much smaller crowds than him. He is complaining that the "fakers back there" in the media are not showing the crowd properly.
Trump rambling about Democrats: "Da Nang Dick. Da Nang Dick. How 'bout Da Nang. Cory Booker. He ran Newark into the ground. Senator Dianne Feinstein." There is a big boo for Feinstein. "How bout that. Seriously? Who thinks that Dianne Feinstein leaked the papers?"
Trump: "By the way, how good is Clarence Thomas? How good? He's going to go down as one of your greats."
Trump criticizes the media for saying he exaggerated when there's a mere "2% variation" in his comments. He claims, "Actually we've UNDER-exaggerated."
Trump is declining to conclude even though he's at his conclusion. "They have to start building larger arenas in this country." For the sixth time, he lies that he had 32,000 people at his election-eve rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
! Trump: "Robert E. Lee was a great general. And Abraham Lincoln developed a phobia. He couldn't beat Robert E. Lee. He was going crazy."
There was like no news in this rally and so Trump decided to offer some history. He says of Grant, "He drank a little bit too much. You know who I'm talking about, right?" "And he went in and he knocked the hell out of everyone. And you know the story. They said to Lincoln..."
Trump on Ulysses S. Grant: "He had a serious problem. A serious drinking problem. But man was he a good general. And he's finally being recognized as a great general."
This is the white-person-claim cousin of Trump's claim that Frederick Douglass is being recognized more and more
Trump on Neil Armstrong planting the flag on the moon: "There was no kneeling, there was no nothing...there was no games. There was no games. BOOM. BOOM. Right, fellas?"
This has been one of Trump's weirder recent rally speeches. It was very low-energy and low-news, and Trump got to his concluding lines, and then he decided to just say Trump things.
Trump on the Veterans Choice program created in 2014 but that he perpetually claims was his own accomplishment nobody else was able to accomplish: "44 years...took 44 years to get that done." That's at least the 23rd time he's made this false claim.
Trump: "We are Americans, and our hearts bleed red white and blue." The crowd shouts "red white and blue" in time with him.
Trump has concluded. He said all the same stuff as he always says except added some musings about the Civil War and Ulysses S. Grant's alcohol consumption, because his prepared text mentioned that Grant was from Ohio. Good bye
Oh this Neil Armstrong-Colin Kaepernick comparison was also new. OK bye
