Trump begins in New Hampshire by claiming there are more people outside the arena trying to get in than there are people actually in. As always, if you're outside, please feel free to tell me what the crowd size is like.
Trump says he has more supporters inside and outside this arena than all the Democrats times five. He then criticizes the "fake news" for not showing his crowds. He then makes fun of an unnamed Democrat for supposedly having "exactly 104 people" at an event today.
Trump mentions the State of the Union, then says, "I had somebody behind me who was mumbling terribly. Mumbling. Mumbling. Waa-waa-ohh-haa. She was mumbling. Very distracting." There is a Lock Her Up chant -- toward Nancy Pelosi.
Trump continues: "It was very distracting. I'm speaking, and a woman is mumbling terribly behind me. Angry. There was a little anger back there."
Trump: "In the House, we won 196 to nothing, and then we got three Democrats." Again, he -- obviously -- lost the House impeachment votes. He's solely citing votes for his side and omitting all the votes against him.
Trump: "Other than Romney, we got 52 to nothing. 52 to nothing. That's something." He was acquitted 52-48 on the article where Romney voted against him -- 52-48, not 52 to nothing.
Trump claims that some experts claimed only "60,000" jobs would be created last month, others "101,000." The lowest estimate from economists surveyed by Reuters was 120,000. (This has become a recurring Trump shtick.)
Trump repeats his old lie about "hundreds and hundreds" of buses being "shipped" from MA to vote improperly in NH in 2016. He adds, "Now you get prosecuted if you do what they did, so it should be a lot different." This is egregious stuff, thoroughly debunked.
Trump says he hears a lot of Republicans will cross over to vote for the weakest Democratic candidate in the primary, but that he doesn't know who the weakest one is, since they're all weak.
Trump tells the multi-sir story about the guy whose wife didn't love him before but now loves him because his 401(k) is up 94%. He adds this time, "That tells you something about money, doesn't it."
Trump tells his Steve Scalise story: "He took a bullet. He got SHOT. And he got up. He was gonna DIE that night. I tell the story all the time. His wife, she was crying so much." He explains how he told Scalise, "I know many wives that don't get too upset."
In short order, Trump has told a story about a man whose wife only loves him when his 401(k) is up and a story about how lots of wives wouldn't care if their husbands got shot.
Trump introduces Ivanka Trump as follows: "Very powerful, very smart, very beautiful even though I'm not allowed to say that because she's my daughter: Ivanka."
Trump recites some accurate economic boasts: 7 million jobs, lowest average unemployment rate for any administration (dating back to Eisenhower), lowest African American youth unemployment, and so on.
"They want to destroy our countrysides, put windmills all over 'em."
Trump did an abbreviated version of his signature windmills monologue, only briefly describing them as a bird graveyard, then moved on to criticizing NAFTA.
Trump re-enacts his signing of the USMCA: "You saw last month: ding, bye bye. I say, Donald J. Trump. BYE BYE NAFTA." (As always: USMCA retains most of NAFTA.)
Trump tells the multi-sir story about how an unnamed senator told him "I've run seven times, sir, and I've won five," and he responded that he ran once and won once. (This story omits his exploratory bid in 2000, but he did not officially launch a campaign that time.)
Trump says he's going to run twice and that'll be it, though the media thinks he's going to run much more than that. This is slightly different from his usual "joke" routine about being president well beyond two terms.
Trump makes his usual false claim about how the US had never previously gotten "10 cents" from China. Aside from the fact that Americans pay the tariffs, the treasury was taking in billions per year in tariffs on China before Trump took office.
Trump on coronavirus: "We only have 11 cases, and they're all getting better." It's 12 confirmed cases.
Trump is doing his usual routine about illegal immigration: "open borders," "murderers," Democrats wanting to treat illegal immigrants better than veterans. There is lots of falseness here.
Trump explains why he's been claiming Mexico is actually paying for the wall: "Redemption from illegal aliens that are coming in. The redemption money is paying for the wall." ??? (He might be talking about remittances and calling it "redemption." Still ???.)
Trump: "You know, you ever hear of the thing, you know with all the modern technology, all of the new computers, the new genius, the new everything, cyber this, cyber that, two things never change, right? A wheel and a wall."
It's back: Trump says people have been imploring him, for the last four or five rallies, to read The Snake, the song he uses to explain his views on the dangers of nice-seeming refugees/undocumented immigrants, so he reads it.
Trump says The Snake is an Al Green song from the 1950s. It's an Al Wilson song from the 1960s.
