Thread by @AndrewFeinberg

NOW: @realDonaldTrump is speaking in North Carolina. He says foreign leaders “almost always” congratulate him on the economy. This is almost certainly a lie.

Now he’s saying the press and Democrats “tried to do the recession thing.” It’s actually economists who are concerned about a recession.

“America is respected again,” says @realDonaldTrump, who got laughed at by world leaders while speaking at the @UN last year.

“We’ve created six million new jobs since Election Day,” @realDonaldTrump says, taking credit for jobs created in the last months of @BarackObama’s presidency.

“More than 7 million Americans have been lifted off of food stamps,” @realDonaldTrump says, again taking credit for continuing a trend that started in 2014 under @BarackObama

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“We has a very, very special day in 2016,” @realDonaldTrump says, again reliving his victory.

Democrats “want to take it away,” he says, accusing them of “not being big believers in religion.”

This is demonstrably false. @JoeBiden has been open about the importance of his Catholic faith for years, @PeteButtigieg has talked about his religious faith a great deal as well.

Sanctuary cities have released “thousands of criminal aliens” into North Carolina communities, @realDonaldTrump says, though he cites no evidence for this.

“Support for sanctuary cities is disloyal to American citizens,” he adds.

.@realDonaldTrump introduces @jdanbishop, who is now railing against “the socialist democrat party” and “dishonest media” seeking to “destroy” the “greatest fighter ever to occupy the White House.”

It appears someone has passed out. @realDonaldTrump asks if there is a “doctor in the house.”

“That’s really great,” @realDonaldTrump says as the person who passed out is attended to, adding “I guess dan’s speech wasn’t so good.”

Bishop speaking again, asks crowd to say a prayer “because that’s what we do, we pray,” adds “I am going to defend your values in Washington, DC.”

He’s now talking about “socialist Democrats” and “fake media,” and attacking his opponent as “a Nancy Pelosi clone.”

NC-09 needs “a congressman with backbone” who will stand up to the “fake news media.”

@jdanbishop now explaining to the crowd how to share a campaign video so as to not rely on the press to get his message out. “Vote for right Dan,” he says He’s done speaking now.

“Get out tomorrow and vote for Dan Bishop,” @realDonaldTrump says meekly. He doesn’t seem too animated tonight.

Now @realDonaldTrump is talking about a @ThomTillis bill to allow people to sue sanctuary cities and thanking Tillis for his support. Tillis penned an op-Ed in the @washingtonpost criticizing @realDonaldTrump’s border emergency but flip flopped on it. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…

.@realDonaldTrump now talking about how his family and various Republicans “love this country,” implying that whether one loves the United States is determined by whether or not one supports him.

“We’re respected again,” @realDonaldTrump says again before accusing our allies of taking advantage of the United States. “I’m not supposed to be president of the world,” he says.

“Thousands of companies are leaving China, the supply chain is crumbling because they can’t pay the tariffs,” he says. This is a lie.

He is again lying about China paying tariffs. China does not pay tariffs. Tariffs are taxes paid by American companies and consumers.

Now @realDonaldTrump is lying about giving the “money taken in from China” to farmers.

The money that the @realDonaldTrump administration has given to farmers comes from taxpayers.

“No one has ever had tens of billions of dollars pouring in from China,” @realDonaldTrump says.

He’s constantly lying about China paying tariffs but he’s inadvertently telling the truth with this statement because the money does not come from China.

Now @realDonaldTrump talking about “giving hundreds of billions of dollars to China.” Nothing is given, we buy things.

Now @realDonaldTrump is repeating his lie that Democrats “want to have open borders” (they don’t) as well as his lie that his administration has built tons of new border wall (it hasn’t).

“The United States is now the number one producer of oil and natural gas in the world,” @realDonaldTrump brags.

This actually occurred under @BarackObama.

The President of the United States is now bragging about his hair.

“We can’t get the Democrats to help us” on the border, @realDonaldTrump says.

He rejected a bill that would’ve given him $25 billion for a border wall in exchange for the DREAM Act because it didn’t also restrict nonwhite immigration.

.@realDonaldTrump now lying about Democrats “bringing in unlimited numbers of refugees,” he’s basically going with the “great replacement” stuff right here.

“You don’t have any choice, you have to vote for me,” @realDonaldTrump says.

Now he’s telling a “Mister President” story, which @ddale8 would probably classify as a cousin of the “Sir” stories he tells (that are always made up)

“We are keeping Obamacare alive,” @realDonaldTrump says. This is a lie, his administration is backing a lawsuit to overturn the entire Affordable Care Act.

Oh look, @realDonaldTrump is talking about John McCain again.

“Democrats are the party of late term abortion, high taxes,” blah blah rubbish rubbish, this is basically his stump speech from last year’s midterma (which is sort of appropriate because this NC09 special election is only needed because the Republican who ran last year cheated).

“We passed VA Choice,” he says. This is (surprise!) a BIG FAT LIE. VA Choice was signed into law by none other than @BarackObama.

It appears @realDonaldTrump is taking credit for new Coast Guard cutters. They are ships that take years to get off the drawing board, started long before he took office.

.@realDonaldTrump is now talking about how NATO allies were “delinquent.” This is a lie. NATO is not a country club. There are no dues.

And @realDonaldTrump is also lying about the US “protecting” NATO allies. It’s a mutual defense pact, and they’ve been defending us since Article 5 was invoked after the 9/11 attacks.

Another frequent lie: “we paid Iran $150 billion” for the JCPOA.

We paid them nothing. It was their money.

He’s also lying (again) about us “giving” Iran $1.8 billion in cash. Again, nothing was “given,” it was a settlement of a decades-long court case.

“I don’t believe there has been...any administration that has done more in their first two and a half years,” @realDonaldTrump says, ignoring FDR and LBJ’s records.

“In 2016, we had maybe the greatest phrase in the history of politics,” @realDonaldTrump says about “Make America Great Again,” which he plagiarized from Ronald Reagan.

.@realDonaldTrump talking about the White House’s “Lincoln bedroom” as the bedroom used by Abraham Lincoln.

Lincoln never slept in the Lincoln Bedroom, it was his office.

Now @realDonaldTrump is talking about light bulbs, and how new LED bulbs are somehow dangerous if you break them (perhaps @gtconway3d can advise on whether this illness is related to windmill cancer)

Ok, we’re done. “You can’t always get what you want” is playing. That’s it.