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The host of the Trump-Strange rally says he's not introducing Strange before the crowd chants "BUILD THAT WALL."
Strange comes out in a suit and promptly puts on a red MAGA hat.
Strange, who is backed by Mitch McConnell donor cash, describes McConnell as a so-called conservative standing in the way of Trump's agenda.
"We've set every record in Alabama," Trump begins, not bothering to say which supposed record he is referring to.
Trump claims Alabama's governor says the state took in "17 million" displaced people after the hurricanes. (???)
Trump says countries are led by lots of good people and lots of bad people. "We're going to take care of the bad people. It's about time."
Good Trump line in Alabama: "We're going to be like your football teams. We're going to win all the time."
Trump: "We can't have madmen out there shooting rockets all over the place. And by the way, Rocket Man shoulda been handled a long time ago"
"Little Rocket Man." Trump just extra-Trumpified "Rocket Man."
Trump is directly addressing Kim Jong Un from a Luther Strange campaign rally in Huntsville, Alabama.
Trump rambling on Kim: "He may be smart, he may strategic, and he may be totally crazy...but no matter what he is, we're gonna handle it."
Trump jokes about immediately firing the appointees who are backing Roy Moore over Luther Strange, as Ben Carson is.
Trump on Obamacare repeal: "We're gonna do it eventually. We're gonna do it eventually."
Trump says he was thinking of moving to Alabama or Kentucky if he lost the election.
Trump says "you'd be turning over your rifles" if Clinton won. He acts out turning over a rifle.
At Trump's mention of Clinton, the crowd chants "lock her up." Trump says, "You've gotta speak to Jeff Sessions about that."
Trump explains that he calls Luther Strange "Big Luther" because he is very tall, the tallest human he has ever seen.
Trump tells a story about how Strange gave him his vote on health care without even making him have dinner with Strange's wife.
Trump says he went home and told Melania that it was "the coolest thing" that Strange didn't even make him have a dinner with his wife.
Hahaha. Trump: They're saying Luther Strange is close with Mitch McConnell? "He doesn't even know Mitch McConnell!"
Trump with a football-pander fail: I don't have to be here, "I could be sitting home right now watching some of the games, tomorrow."
Trump is complaining about the August Golf Magazine report that quoted him allegedly calling the White House a "dump."
Trump then complains about people complaining a few weeks ago about Melania wearing high heels.
Trump hedging bets: if Moore wins, I'm going to be here "campaigning like hell for him." Adds that Moore might lose the general election.
Trump: If you elect Strange, he will be not only good on policy but the tallest senator in U.S. history.
Trump literally pulls John Kelly to the microphone, demanding he say something, but Kelly flees.
Trump: "It has to be a see-through wall. I don't know if you know this."
Trump: We're going to build the wall. Actually, there's already some wall that we're fixing. But really it has to be a see-through wall.
Trump: Drug traffickers "have catapults," and they catapult giant sacks of drugs over the wall, and it "hits somebody in the head."
Trump: "That's the great thing about Twitter. When the press is dishonest, which is most of the time...I can tweet."
Zombie false claim is back: Trump says ICE and the Border Patrol, federal agencies, endorsed him. (Unions of their employees endorsed him.)
Trump on Senator Luther Strange's relationship with Republican leaders: "He doesn't know those people! He's never met them!"
So far this is Weird-Story-Rambley-Grandpa Rally Trump rather than Raging Rally Trump.
Trump: Don't you want an NFL owner to say "get that son of a bitch off the field" and "FIRE" players who take a knee during the anthem?
"HE'S FIRED!" Trump shouts, playing the role of hyperpatriotic NFL owner, and the crowd chants "U-S-A."
Trump on NFL anthem protests: "That's a total disrespect of our heritage. That's a total disrespect of everything we stand for."
Trump, playing sports-radio caller, is now complaining about 15-yard roughness penalties for "beautiful" football hits.
This is the second time the president or his admin have called for the firing of someone in the sports world for expressing an opinion.
Donald Trump praises "Alabama values," and then says: "I feel like I'm from Alabama, frankly."
A bitta dog-whistlin' going on right now.
Trump says there are "thousands, thousands" of people stuck outside who can't get into the rally. Can anyone on scene vouch/non-vouch?
Trump brags at length about how he coined the nickname Big Luther, since Luther is very tall, and then adds: "You know, I brand people."
Donald Trump: "You know why I won? Because the Electoral College is a very special thing."
Trump: "To me, winning the popular vote is easier." He explains that he only lost because he was strategic. He is still very mad about this.
Trump: "If Hillary runs again in four years, which I hope she does, we're gonna teach her to spend more time in Michigan...go to Wisconsin."
He's still going. It is frankly astonishing how much the victorious president cares, 10 months later, about losing the popular vote,
Trump with a quite a by-the-way: "Just in case you're curious? NOOO. Russia did not help me. Okay?"
The president: "ARE THERE ANY RUSSIANS IN THE AUDIENCE? I don't see too many Russians."
Trump lying about the Clean Power Plan: "You see what I did today? BOOM, GONNNE." He did not get rid of the Clean Power Plan today.
"He doesn't know Mitch McConnell!" Trump is going to hilarious McConnell-insulting lengths to lie that Strange has no relationship with him.
Donald Trump: "China, who I love right now..."
Trump repeats one of his regular brazen rally lies, falsely saying CNN turns off its camera whenever he rails against "fake news."
Trump, shouting, lies that TV zooms in on the seats of people who go to the bathroom. "THEY SHOW THOSE EMPTY SEATS EVERY SINGLE TIIIME!"
The only news out of this Luther Strange endorsement rally is the president asking for the firing of "son of a bitch" anthem-kneelers.
I guess also the president strenously insisting that a Republican senator has never even met the Republican Senate leader.
Trump says Luther Strange doesn't even know Mitch McConnell. Here's a story from two days ago: washingtonexaminer.com/mitch-mcconnel… 
Trump says we will see his tax plan "next week," which is down one week from the usual two weeks.
Trump says he's bringing back "3, 4, maybe $5 trillion" parked overseas. The number is $2.6 trillion. The"4, 5" is made up, experts tell me.
Trump says he's going to keep fighting to kill Obamacare, like a boxer who keeps getting up again after a knock-down. (Also: Chumbawumba)
Trump says the RAISE Act will stop immigrants from immediately going on welfare, which they are mostly already stopped from doing.
This is one of Trump's longest speeches ever. He's at 80-plus minutes and counting.
Trump cannot get over Luther Strange's height. He finishes by punnily urging Alabama to give itself a "giant in the Senate."
2020's Single-Payer! vs. Kaepernick Sucks! election is gonna be amazing
Trump was lying as usual about his "thousands outside" claim, Alabama reporter reports:
Watch this hilarity: Trump drags Kelly on stage to say something, Kelly points at Trump and slowly backs away:
Trump hailed himself for coining the name Big Luther. Local paper fact check: Luther used to call himself that. trib.al/coWUpc2
"Catapults." Here's the video of Trump explaining how giant sacks of drugs are falling from the border sky:
I misheard Trump here: he said "to that," not "today." (The claim that it is "gone" is still false.)
