The first three sentences of Trump's rally in South Carolina: "All I can say is that the fake news just doesn't get it, do they? They don't get it. They just don't get it."
The size of the crowd outside. The size of the crowd inside. The size of an unnamed Democrat's crowd down the road. The fake news. The number of cameras at this rally.
Trump repeats his now-standard rally lines about the accomplishments of the administration and how his radical, sinister, corrupt, "far left. opponents are trying to destroy it all, "very dishonest people."
Trump accuses Democrats of politicizing the coronavirus, prompting boos. A few sentences later, he says, "They have no clue. They can't even count their votes in Iowa."
Trump says, "Our country is doing so great. We are so unified. We are so unified. The Republican Party has never, ever been unified like it is now."
Trump claims the press is in "hysteria mode" about the coronavirus, singling out CNN and then lying that CNN just turned its camera off. "Turn it back on," he demands.
Trump has moved on from criticizing the media and Democrats over the coronavirus to criticizing the Oscars for naming South Korean film Parasite Best Picture, asking again, "What's that all about?" A man shouts that it's garbage. Trump laughs and says, "He said it's garbage."
Trump has returned to the coronavirus from how Parasite shouldn't have been Best Picture. He says "we are magnificently organized" for the virus, "totally ready."
Trump: "This does show you. Things happen. Who ever thought of this? Two weeks ago, who would have thought this could be going on? For weeks ago? But things happen in life."
This is standard Rally Trump except it's about the novel coronavirus.
Trump: "Border security is also health security." He boasts about the wall, then says he'll do everything he can to keep people carrying "the infection" from entering the country. (We know of no cases in which someone has walked over from Mexico with the virus.)
Trump is now doing a coronavirus-related remix of his usual borders attack on Democrats, saying "you see" with the coronavirus how their policies threaten the health of Americans.
Now Trump is talking about how he met with black leaders yesterday. "One of the things I asked 'em -- and I've been thinking about this for a long time...'Do you like the name African American, or black?' And they said 'BLACK.' All at the same time."
The president says of Comcast: "I'll do everything possible to destroy their image."
Trump says he'll upset the media by talking about being president for nine or 13 or 18 more years. He then gets up to 21. He adds, "Let's term-limit ourselves at 25 years."
Trump began to attack NBC for something about its coverage of his meeting with black leaders yesterday, but he got distracted by attacking parent Comcast and then by talking about being president for 25 years and never finished.
Trump, who was mocked for mispronouncing words and mixing up a famous CEO's name on his trip to India, asks if you can imagine what would happen if he made a fraction of the mistakes Biden makes in speeches.
Trump boasts briefly about the economy, then mocks various Democrats using disparaging nicknames.
Elizabeth Warren is not dumb, Trump says, but is "mean."
Trump polls the crowd on who is the weakest Democrat in the field, so he can decide whom to advise them to go vote for in the Democratic primary tomorrow. The crowd cheers by far the loudest for Bernie Sanders.
We're on the "Indian blood" portion of the proceedings.
Trump is complaining at some length that some of the applause at his events is sometimes described as "a smattering." He says it's far more than a smattering.
Trump says that "in the last year" prescription drug prices fell "for the first time in 51 years." No. By one measure but not others, they fell in 2018 for the first time in 46 years. By the same measure, they rose in 2019.
Sen. Lindsey Graham is speaking, thanking Trump for a list of things. He concludes by thanking Trump for dealing with "never-ending bullshit."
Sen. Tim Scott gets the crowd to "scream" for South Carolina being "Trump country," if they have "benefited from the Trump economy," and if they want four more years.
Trump is telling a detailed story about what a Medal of Honor recipient went through before dying. "Those are tough deals," he says of situations that result in people getting the Medal of Honor.
Trump is reciting his standard economic boasts about various unemployment, income and poverty records, most of them true.
Trump: "We expect to win a historic share of the black vote come election day."
Trump calls the USMCA a "tremendous, giant, beautiful" victory for South Carolina.
As is standard for his rally speeches, Trump is reciting the vivid, violent details of local crimes committed by people in the country illegally.
Trump starts talking about the wall, then bashes "the deep state," then mocks "Never Trumpers."
Trump falsely says Mexico is paying for the wall. ("Yes they are. They are paying for it.") He says, "And some of the fake news knows that, but they refuse to report it. But that's OK. You'll see. You'll see what's going on." (He recently claimed "redemption money" was paying.)
Trump is waxing about the toughness of ICE officers. He says, "On occasion, they have a fight. They never lose those fights."
Trump says he knows judges are fair and that their decisions have nothing to do with who appointed them, "but I never win with an Obama-appointed judge. Ever. I don't win." (Can't immediately fact check this.)
Trump is back to bashing Democrats over the coronavirus. He says of "Chuckie Schumer": "This guy doesn't know he's alive." ?
Trump repeats his usual false claim about how only 2% of immigrants released pending a court hearing show up for the hearing and how those 2% are "the dumbest people that I've ever seen."
Trump is on the part about how we should probably impeach Obama for his false "you can keep your doctor" claim.
Trump repeats his lie about how he got VA Choice passed "after 50 years." Obama signed it into law in 2014. It was a Bernie Sanders-John McCain bill. Trump signed a 2018 law that modified the Choice program and expanded it to more veterans.
Trump: "This is not the old Republican Party. This is a very inclusive party."
Trump is telling his sir/"darling" story about how Van Jones asked him to sign criminal justice reform but then went on TV and, while Trump was watching with Melania, thanked Al Sharpton and everyone except for Trump. This never happened.
Trump says Al Sharpton looked better when he was heavier.
This entire long Van Jones story, which Trump just concluded by insisting it is "a true story," is imaginary. Here's my fact check of a previous version. cnn.com/2019/10/05/pol…
Trump says people used to think the Space Force was a joke or something out of comics, but it's not, and it gets a lot of support now. "Because that's where it's at. That's where it's going."
Trump has modified his "you're gonna be so tired of winning" riff, this time explaining that some local residents actually did call senators Scott and Graham into a town hall to tell them they were sick of winning this much, it's "too much."
Trump has concluded.
