They're playing YMCA at Trump's rally in Biloxi, Mississippi. I will tweet tweets in this thread when it stops and he starts.
Mike Pence is here. He says, "Mississippi and America need Cindy Hyde-Smith back in the United States Senate."
"I think there's only one way you can describe the last two years," Mike Pence says. "It's been two years of action."
"We've already started to build that wall," Pence says, adopting Trump's regular lie, and the crowd chants Build That Wall, and Pence says, as Trump does, "Oh, we're buildin' it."
Pence concludes: with Gov. Phil Bryant in the state house, with Donald Trump in the White House, "and with God's help, we will make Mississippi safer and more prosperous than ever before." Now Trump.
Fake snow falls on Trump. He marvels at it and swats it away in dramatic fashion. He begins, "Look, snow, I didn't know what was going on, this is, I said, are you sure this is indoor, that beautiful snow looks so real, that's the end of my suit, that's the end of my hair..."
Trump says there are "thousands of people outside." There is not a good record of thousands of people being outside when he says this. Just to do the fact-check now, is anyone out there on the scene?
Trump says what is happening is "frankly unprecedented," then tries and fails to say unprecedented again, saying something like, "What's happening is un-prentice."
"We are respected like at no time before," Trump says. He says foreign leaders walk in and tell him, "Mr. President, it's incredible what's happened with your country in such a short time."
Boasting of low African-American unemployment, which fell steadily under Obama and then continued under Trump, Trump reminds the crowd that he used to ask African-Americans, "What the hell do you have to lose?"
Trump on the midterms: "We got very little credit from the fake news media. Very little credit. They talked about the House. But the people I campaigned for in the House - which was very few, I can't, look I'm one person."
Trump is rattling off Senate and governor victories. He says if they win tomorrow it will be a 53-47 Senate margin, "and nobody can believe it." (Everybody can believe it.)
Trump: "We had three seats even four seats that were so close. We almost won. In areas that a lot of people say don't bother contesting. We almost won in four states that a lot of people say don't bother, you can't win." This did not happen.
Trump alleges "a little tricky business going on" in the midterms. He does not say what he's talking about.
Trump warns Mississippi not to let Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters and Chuck Schumer win this Senate race. Maxine Waters, a Black woman, is not only not in the Senate but not a party leader.
Trump again calls Sen. Lindsey Graham's fiery pro-Kavanaugh speech "beautiful."
"He hit a chord that you hit very rarely in the world of politics or anything else," he says.
"He hit a chord that you hit very rarely in the world of politics or anything else," he says.
Trump says the very future of America's judicial system is at stake in this Senate election. He says he wants judges who will follow "the plain and very beautiful meaning of our Constitution."
Trump repeats his regular nonsense that people's Medicare benefits are at stake in this election, because Democrats want to raid Medicare to pay for "socialism." Medicare for All would not raid Medicare.
Trump lies that Democrats are inviting caravans. He says of his border efforts, "We are doing a job and we will continue to do a job. We're doing what's right." The crowd chants Build That Wall. "So the wall is started, very very substantially," he lies for the 77th time.
Trump again boasts that the military has put up wire at the border. He says, "They've made them very unfriendly-looking, wouldn't you say. Climbing those walls would be a very painful experience right now."
Trump boasts of how many bad people ICE has arrested during his tenure. Sounding a bit Oprah-like, he says, pointing at people in the crowd, "And I don't want that job. And you don't want it. And you don't want it. And you don't want it. And YOU might take it, right there."
Trump cites stats on illegal immigrant crimes, baselessly rejects data on low immigrant criminality. "You know you hear these stories about oh, they don't commit crimes, we commit crimes, they don't commit crimes. Always it's us. No no, it doesn't work that way. It's fake news."
Trump says the U.S. has an annual trade deficit of $800 billion. That's only true if you ignore trade in services, as he always does. It was $566 billion including services trade last year.
Trump boasts of the Mexico-Canada trade deal, then threatens Mexico and Canada with tariffs again: "But of course they have to treat us fairly. Otherwise we'll just tax their product when it comes in. You know that. You know that. You know that. You know what I'm talking about."
Trump says that there used to be an "economic surrender," but it ended when he took office, but it happened "through stupidity."
Trump does his usual exaggeration on manufacturing jobs, saying "600,000" have been created during his presidency. It was 416,000 from Jan. 2017 through Oct. 2018.
Trump, who always boasts about how he has supposedly ended steel dumping, now says, "They can dump all they want. I want them to dump a lot." His argument is: "Dump all you want, you're gonna pay a lot." But the dumpers, like China, do not pay the tariff; Americans pay it.
Trump again calls NAFTA a disaster and his USMCA, which is very NAFTA, incredible. He repeats, of the name USMCA, "like the song, YMCA, right."
"Drug prices are starting to come down," Trump says without any evidence I'm aware of. An Associated Press investigation of brand-name prescription drugs found 96 price increases for every price reduction in the first seven months of this year.
Trump does his usual exaggeration of how dire the experimental-medication situation was before the new Right to Try law, wrongly saying people had "no hope" and "we never let anyone touch it." Trump's FDA chief testified that the FDA approved 99% of pre-Right to Try requests.
For the second time today, Trump says he gave the troops the largest pay hike in more than 10 years. It's the largest in nine years.
Trump says nobody has ever done so much in two years.
Trump: "You still have deep state, but one by one we're getting them out. You have deep state bad people. You have a lot of phony stuff going on. But you know what? One by one, we're winning. We're winning winning winning."
Trump says of his movement: "It's about reclaiming America's dignity."
Trump says people challenge him on every word he says but nobody ever challenges him on his claim that he has the greatest political movement of all time. People challenge him on that also.
Trump said win win win win and now the crowd is chanting win win win win.
Trump has concluded. Like his rally this afternoon, this one was much shorter than usual.
