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3 Nov, 14 tweets, 2 min read
Trump is now on Fox & Friends, sounding more subdued and talking slower than usual. (He was up late doing rallies.) He repeats his usual false claim about how 2.2 million pandemic deaths were initially expected, then touts his pandemic response in the familiar manner.
"I'm doing a big series of phone calls" today to "very loyal" and "very important" people. (He suggests he might mean media interviews but doesn't specify.)
"No one doubts your work ethic," Kilmeade tells Trump, citing the fact that he has done 14 campaign rallies over the last three days.
Asked at what point he will declare victory, Trump says, "When there's victory. If there's victory." He adds, "I think we'll have victory...but only when there's victory. There's no reason to play games."
Trump says "we have a very solid chance of winning," then immediately says, "I don't know what the chances are."
Trump talks about how much his rally attendees love him -- "They even say, many of them, 'We love you, we love you, we love you.' They're screaming, 'We love you'" -- then touts the boat parades in support of him.
Asked if he got emotional when he told his supporters to not make him cry with their "we love you" chant, Trump emphasizes over and over that he was just kidding, he wasn't going to cry.
Trump repeats his story about how "it's hard to have friends" because people are so intimidated by the presidency, then repeats his story about how he tells people "the US" is by far the world's toughest country for him to deal with, more than China, Russia, North Korea.
Asked about Obama, Trump mocks Obama's crowd sizes, then criticizes Fox for airing Obama speeches, saying "Fox has changed a lot" and is the biggest difference between now and 2016. "Fox is a much different place," he says.
Fox & Friends tells Trump they're trying to show both sides by airing speeches by Obama, that they're fair unlike the others. Trump responds, "Well, in the old days they wouldn't put Sleepy Joe Biden on every time he opened his month. They have other networks for that, frankly."
Trump, who last night introduced Lil Pump as Lil Pimp and called hypersonic missiles hydrosonic missiles, is talking at length about how Biden sometimes gets mixed up, saying, "That's something you can't let happen."
Trump repeats his usual remarks about how "it would be a terrible thing for women" if Kamala Harris became the first woman to be president.
Trump questions the motives of people who mail in ballots at the end of the election, slowly making baseless and vague accusations about Philadelphia as Fox & Friends keeps trying to end the interview.
Asked what he thinks the score will be in the Electoral College this time, Trump says last time it was 306 to 223 (actually 232; he never gets Clinton's number right) and "I think we will top it. I think we'll top it."

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4 Nov
Trump begins by saying, falsely, that "a very sad group of people is trying to disenfranchise" his supporters. Democrats are simply trying to get all the votes counted.
Trump then says that "we were winning everything, and all of a sudden, it was just called off." Would try to fact check this but I don't even know what it means.
Trump says "it's also clear that we have won Georgia," though that is not clear from the publicly available data.
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16 Oct
Biden made some false or misleading claims tonight, though far fewer than Trump. An early list:

He said Trump didn't do "anything" when the initial $600 per week unemployment boost expired. In August, Trump used $44 billion in FEMA money to send $300 per week to the jobless.
When Stephanopoulos said Biden's website calls the Green New Deal a "crucial framework," Biden said, "My deal is a crucial framework, but not the New Green Deal." Biden's website does call the GND a crucial framework, though he has his own plan. joebiden.com/climate-plan/#
Biden falsely said there are now more troops in Afghanistan than there were when Biden left office. Trump did do an early-term troop surge, but he's since done a reduction; O'Brien says the current number is now under 5,000, thousands lower than in late 2016.
Read 5 tweets
8 Oct
This manufacturing jobs section is a mess on both sides.

1) Harris said the US lost 300,000 manufacturing jobs because of the China trade war. But the US gained manufacturing jobs under Trump, 483,000, before the pandemic; it's now a loss of 164,000, but pandemic-related.
2) Pence then said Obama lost 200,000 manufacturing jobs. That's highly misleading. The losses occurred during the recession he inherited; starting in March 2010, 14 months into his tenure, the number of manufacturing jobs rose pretty steadily. fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MANEMP
3) Pence, like Trump, wrongly suggested Obama said manufacturing jobs were dead or couldn't be created. Obama said some were gone forever, but he also boasted about how many were being created during his presidency.
Read 5 tweets
17 Sep
Trump is reading a speech at the National Archives Museum criticizing the left's approach to the study of history, complaining of the New York Times' 1619 Project, critical race theory, and "propaganda tracts like those of Howard Zinn."
Trump says it is "a form of child abuse, in the truest sense of those words," to teach children critical race theory.
Trump announces he will be signing an executive order to establish a "national commission to promote patriotic education." He says "it will be called the 1776 Commission," a nod to criticism of the 1619 Project.
Read 5 tweets
11 Sep
Oh man. Trump: "As the British government advised the British people in the face of World War II, keep calm and carry on. That's what I did."

Churchill was famously blunt with the British people about how bad things could get.
Trump: "When Hitler was bombing London, Churchill, great leader, would oftentimes go to a roof in London and speak. And he always spoke with calmness. He said, 'We have to show calmness.'"

I am currently reading the Larson book and I can tell you this is very bad Trump History.
Churchill would sometimes go up on roofs and other high perches to watch the Blitz bombings. He did not broadcast from the roofs, clearly - he'd sneak up there in the dark.
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29 Aug
Last night in New Hampshire, Trump repeated a bunch of the false claims from his RNC speech. He also added some more. Quick thread, with the help of colleagues @HolmesLybrand and @tarasubramaniam:
Trump said, "By the way, you know, Mexico is paying for the wall, just in case you didn't know that." (Mexico is not paying for the wall. Americans are paying for the wall.)
Trump said that, under Biden's plan, "you're gonna lose your private health care." He added, "We're gonna lose 185 million people who have private health insurance." (Biden is not proposing to scrap private insurance. He defeated candidates running on Medicare-for-All.)
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