Trump is giving a rally speech at 7 pm in Pennsylvania’s 18th District, near Pittsburgh, where there’s a hotly contested special House election on Tuesday. I shall tweet.
Trump: "We're saving the steel. And a lot of steel mills are now opening up because what I did. Not all my friends on Wall Street love it, but we love it." "Steel is back, and aluminum is back."
Trump: "That Washington DC: got a lot of evil there, but we're getting it out, step by step...evil...lot of bad people...lot of fake media. Fake, fake media." The crowd boos.
Trump asks some people in the crowd to calm down with their insults toward Kim Jong Un, saying we "have to be very nice" until his meeting.
Trump: "We did a great job on the Olympics. President Moon of South Korea said without Donald Trump the Olympics would've been a total failure. It's true. It's true. Might as well say it."
That's an exaggeration of what Moon said:
That's an exaggeration of what Moon said:
Trump calls Chuck Todd "Sleepy Eyes" and then "a sleeping son of a bitch."
Trump is claiming that no other president could have secured a meeting with Kim, though the North Koreans have long sought a meeting with the president. He then wrongly claims that Bill Clinton gave the North Koreans "billions and billions."
Trump boasts of the handsomeness of his younger self, saying he should have run for office back then.
Trump calls CNN "fake as hell."
"They want to denuclearize. Nobody had heard that," Trump says of the North Korea, though experts say that is exceptionally unlikely. Of his meeting, he says, "I may leave fast or we may make the greatest deal for the world."
This is pretty amazing - Trump is speaking in detail of his high-stakes nuclear diplomacy as kind of a parenthetical aside to his angry insults of the media.
Trump complains at length that NBC's newscasts are very biased even though he made them a lot of money by succeeding for 14 seasons with The Apprentice, with which Arnold Schwarzenegger and Martha Stewart failed.
"He got us into the Middle East," Trump complains of George W. Bush. He says that he is "bringing it back"; it is not exactly clear what "it" is here.
Hahaha. Trump repeats his statement from the Gridiron dinner that maybe he'll try being president for life, blasting the media for misinterpreting his "joke"...and the crowd cheers for him being president for life. "Joking," he says over the cheers.
Trump again claims the media will endorse him pre-election to keep its ratings high - then calls Warren "Pocahontas," which many Native Americans consider a racial slur.
"Can you imagine covering Bernie? Or Pocahontas? Pocahontas, how about that!"
"Can you imagine covering Bernie? Or Pocahontas? Pocahontas, how about that!"
Trump repeats his lie that he was on Oprah in the last week of her show. He was on 3.5 months before it ended. He then claims that he knows Oprah's secret "weakness" and wants her to run against him.
Trump repeats his false claim that the U.S. has spent $7 trillion in the Middle East since 9/11. That's a completely fictional number. The current version of the old estimate from which he is wrongly extrapolating is $4.3 trillion.
"Wages went up a little bit. You haven't had wages in 19 years," Trump says, though wages have been rising since 2014.
In an unusual acknowledgment of fact-checkers, Trump is criticizing them for noting that his "lowest African-American unemployment" claim was false last month, since it'd gone up from the previous month's record level. He says he didn't know it had gone up.
Fact-checking myself - Trump said this "joke" was from the Gridiron "roast," but it wasn't:
"That's not rich people. That's for everybody," Trump says of stock market gains. Half of Americans do not own stock.
After a long explanation of why he can't re-use Make America Great Again, Trump announces his 2020 campaign slogan: "Keep America Great, exclamation point."
Trump calls Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters "a very low-IQ individual."
He repeats: "She's a low-IQ individual."
Likely uncoincidentally, Waters is Black.
He repeats: "She's a low-IQ individual."
Likely uncoincidentally, Waters is Black.
Trump calls PA-18 Democratic candidate Conor Lamb "Lamb the Sham," then says he himself is better-looking than Lamb, though Lamb is much younger.
"They want to stop DACA," Trump egregiously lies about Democrats.
Trump says he made Democrats a deal they couldn't refuse on DACA, "like the mob pictures."
Trump says he's told his team they can just "coast" until 2020 because they've already done so awesome.
"Canada's brutal. Canada's really tough," Trump says, falsely claiming the U.S. has a "big deficit" with Canada.
"They've just outsmarted our politicians for decades," he continues, maybe of Canada and maybe of everyone.
"They've just outsmarted our politicians for decades," he continues, maybe of Canada and maybe of everyone.
Trump lies that the US has a $130 billion trade deficit with Mexico, saying, "That's a real number," though it's an extremely non-real number, since the deficit is $71 billion even if you exclude services trade, which brings it even lower.
Trump falsely claims that the U.S. has a $500 billion trade deficit with China. He's off by more than $125 billion; the deficit is $375 billion even if you only count goods trade.
Trump on Canada and Mexico: "They said, 'We don't want to pay tariffs!' I said, 'Let's make a deal on NAFTA.'"
Trump gives his usual extremely wrong history of the formation of the European Union, again falsely saying it was created to undermine the United States: "Why did they band together to screw the United States on trade?"
Trump, asking parents to shield their children's ears from the horror, falsely claims that the U.S. has an $800 billion global trade deficit. As his administration reported in February, it's $566 billion. Trump excludes the $244 billion services surplus.
Trump is giving an extremely inaccurate history of the Georgia 6th special election, wrongly claiming his efforts brought Jon Ossoff down from 58% in the polls.
Trump is taking aim at Conor Lamb's attempts to distance himself from Pelosi, saying Democrats always say such things and then go to Washington and "vote lockstep."
Trump, hedging a bit in his attacks on Democrat Lamb, says he might like Lamb if he meets him, since Lamb is saying nice things about him and he tends to like people who say nice things about him, and then Republican Saccone will be mad.
Trump, boasting that he was the brilliant guy who wanted to talk about "tax cuts" rather than the vague "tax reform," confirms reports that he wanted to call the bill "the Tax Cut Cut Cut Bill."
Trump just asked his rally crowd: "Do you like me?"
Bringing back one of his favourite campaign lies, Trump lies, "They never show the crowds."
Trump says he calls friends after campaign rallies and asks them how good he was.
Trump says ICE officers are extremely tough, and with MS-13 in Long Island, "They grabbed them by the neck and they threw 'em into the paddy wagon." The crowd soon starts a "build the wall" chant.
Trump again says he doesn't need all of the $25 billion in border security funding he is demanding in the DACA deal: "If I get $25 billion for The Wall, you're going to have a lot of change."
Trump, who appointed a President's Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis, is mocking people who think blue-ribbon committees can help with the addiction crisis.
Trump promotes the idea of the dealth penalty for drug dealers, saying that's what they do in China.
Trump wrongly claims that China does not have a drug addiction problem. aljazeera.com/indepth/featur…
Trump extremely falsely claims that a single drug dealer will kill 2,000, 3,000 or 5,000 people. Experts tell me this number is ludicrous.
Then he ludicrously says that people get 30 days in jail for dealing the drugs that kill 5,000 people.
Then he ludicrously says that people get 30 days in jail for dealing the drugs that kill 5,000 people.
Trump says he doesn't know if the country is ready for the death penalty for drug dealers, but he wants to have a discussion about it.
Trump criticizes the mayor of Oakland for warning residents about a looming immigration raid. The crowd chants "lock her up." He says "you can't do it."
Trump, boasting of ICE raids targeting MS-13 in Long Island, says, "Hillary wouldn't have liberated those towns."
Trump: "I look forward to 2020. Because I want to see how far left the (Democratic candidate) is going to be."
Trump: "I went to the Wharton School of Finance...smart...the best business school..."
Trump says, as he did during the campaign, that it'd be super-easy to be "presidential," but everyone would be very "bored" and not come to his rallies.
He then does a mockingly-sober-voiced imitation of a regular political speech.
He then does a mockingly-sober-voiced imitation of a regular political speech.
This is all prompted by Trump's irritation with a Peggy Noonan column about his speaking style or something. Trump says of speaking presidentially: "That's easy! That's much easier than doing what I have to do. But this is much more effective...this got us elected."
Trump complains that people talk of him like's a "Neanderthal." In fact, he says, he's very smart.
"306 to 223!" Trump boasts of his earned Electoral College margin - which was actually 306 to 232.
This is the seventh time in office that he has wrongly put Clinton's number of electoral votes at 223 rather than 232.
This is the seventh time in office that he has wrongly put Clinton's number of electoral votes at 223 rather than 232.
Trump's current hingedness level is not extremely high.
Trump says election night 2016 was one of the best-rated nights in the history of television.
Trump says Republican candidate Rick Saccone, who spent a year in North Korea, might know more than anybody else about North Korea. Trump says he learned things talking to Saccone that other so-called "geniuses" don't know.
Trump has handed the mic to Rick Saccone, who shouts, "DO WE LOVE OUR PRESIDENT IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIAAA?" That is all for this live-tweet.
