Trump is about to start a campaign rally in Richmond, Kentucky. Tweet thread here.
I just want to let you all know that I don't drink and have been non-intoxicated this entire time.
Trump begins on Kentucky: "Greatest horses in the world, and plenty of other things."
Trump hails the return of pastor Andrew Brunson from captivity in Turkey. He asks the crowd if they can handle all of his victories. He thanks Erdogan, whom he calls "terrific."
Trump keeps saying that Hurricane Michael had winds of close to 200 miles per hour. All of the reporting was that it came ashore with 155 miles per hour winds. Someone tell me if I'm missing something.
Trump is recounting his 2016 victory in Kentucky in the voice of a newscaster calling the state for him, as he does.
There is a loud U-S-A chant after Trump says America is winning again because the president is "finally putting America first."
Trump says he is putting coal miners back to work "like never before. They're going back, back back." 1,800 coal mining jobs have been added since his inauguration. 
Trump says that he'd like to walk into a room that does not have lots of cameras in it. Fact check?
Trump on Brett Kavanaugh: "Never has a man been treated so badly."
Trump on Kavanaugh: "What happened to him was so unfair, I've never seen anything like it. And we stuck with him all the way, because we knew the facts."
Trump once began claiming that he has fulfilled more promises than he promised. Then he started attributing that claim to an unnamed person. Today he attributed it to the "fake news media."
Trump: "The Democrats have become totally consumed by their chilling lust for power."
Trump calls up Mitch McConnell. They do a handshake/side-hug. McConnell: "Aren't we proud of President Trump?" He touts the high number of judges this Senate has confirmed.
Trump's framing of the midterms: "You can either vote for Democrat mob rule or you can vote for a Republican party that stands proudly for law and order, fairness, freedom and justice. Simple as that." He's going big on this Democrats-as-"mob" thing.
Trump, lying, says a Democratic Congress will "take away your health care."
Trump says "we had Obamacare repealed and replaced," and the crowd cheers because they think he's listing an accomplishment, but then Trump finishes the sentence and says it didn't happen, because "we didn't get one Democrat vote."
Trump says that not everybody knows how good a person both Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell are. He says, "There's something that happens to you when you grow up in Kentucky, I guess." Paul did not grow up in Kentucky.
Trump on Kentucky in 2016: "What did we win by, 38? 38!" He won by 30 points, 63 to 33.
Trump lies that there are "25,000" or "35,000" or some other "crazy number" of people outside the rally watching on screens. The Post's @wpjenna was out there when the line got cut off and took a photo of the small group that has stayed.
Rep. Andy Barr calls for The Wall. The crowd chants Build That Wall. Barr says later, "This president is a man of action, a man of action. Other people resist, but this president gets results."
Barr and Trump mock Hillary Clinton's "I'm with her" slogan from 2016. Trump says, "She paid a lot of money for that slogan." He says his own slogan, Make America Great Again, is "the greatest slogan anybody will ever come up with," but he has to change it, to Keep America Great.
He just makes these things up. Almost all of Trump's lies are from him himself, not his staff.
Trump is attacking Barr's opponent, Democrat Amy McGrath. As usual in red states, he is trying to tie her to Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and to California Rep. Maxine Waters, who is a black woman.
Trump on "socialist" health care: "It doesn't work anywhere in the world. It's good if you don't mind waiting like five weeks to see a doctor. Frankly they come from Canada because they want to use our doctors."
A tiny % of Canadians travel to the US for care. I'll get data.
A tiny % of Canadians travel to the US for care. I'll get data.
Trump on Democrats: "They want to get rid of ICE. They think ICE isn't nice."
Trump says Canadians are coming to the US because Canada's health system is bad. Canada's right-wing Fraser Institute finds that just 1% of Canadians travel anywhere outside Canada for any medical care. fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/…
Trump lies of the diversity visa lottery: "These countries set up lotteries..." There is one lottery, and it is conducted by the U.S. State Department, not foreign countries.
Trump is lying about Sayfullo Saipov, man accused of the West Side Highway terror attack: "Approximately 22 people came in. It's called a chain." Even Trump's allies say there's no way Saipov could possibly bring in 22 people. Trump's aides have declined to endorse this claim.
"We've added nearly 600,000 manufacturing jobs," Trump says of the 378,000 manufacturing jobs added between January 2017 and the end of last month.
Trump lies: "Remember I got 52%...the fake news, remember...they were all saying he will not do well with women. Wow did we do well with women...fake news." He got 52% of white women alone, 41-42% of all women.
Trump adds some local colour to his "winning" monologue: "You know about winning...those horses win, you people are winners."
Trump calls NAFTA a "horror show" and says his USMCA is "brand new." He acknowledged earlier in the week that the USMCA is "basically the redone NAFTA."
Trump identifying Xi Jinping: "The absolute head. This is an absolute head of China."
Trump says his successful pressuring of Pfizer happened "three weeks ago." It happened in July. He habitually moves up old good news so that it sounds more excitingly close to the presence.
Trump again claims that he's bringing drug prices down. While he did get Pfizer and Novartis to delay some increases, the Associated Press found "96 price increases for every price reduction in the first seven months of this year."
Trump says his successful pressuring of Pfizer happened "three weeks ago." It happened in July. He habitually moves up old good news so that it sounds more excitingly close to the present (fixed typo).
Trump then says he got the medical Right to Try bill passed "a month and a half ago." That happened in May. Again, he perpetually moves old good news closer to the present to make it sound like he has recent momentum.
Trump again lies that this year's pay increase for the troops is the biggest in "over a decade." It's the biggest in nine years. His prepared texts say "nearly a decade" or some such thing. He pauses a bit and makes it "over a decade."
Trump repeats his usual lie that he was the one who passed the Veterans Choice program that nobody could get passed for "40 years," and that he independently thought of this idea before being told about this doomed 40 years of non-passage. It was passed under Obama in 2014.
Trump on the Space Force: "You know it's all about space. It's all about space. Defense, offense, everything is going to soon be all about space."
Trump: "We, unlike the Democrats, will protect Medicare and protect Social Security." There's no basis for his frequent suggestions that Democrats will target these for cuts.
Trump repeats that his movement is the greatest movement in the history of this country. This time he adds, "Maybe of any country."
Rally over. Same lines as always, same lies as always.
