Thread by @ddale8

"You may have heard I was invited to another event tonight, the White House Correspondents Dinner, but I'd much rather be in Washington, Michigan than Washington, D.C. right now," Trump says to begin his campaign rally.

Trump claims that there are five times as many people stuck outside the rally than actually in the rally. Any reporters on the scene?

Trump: "We support the rule of law, and we support the heroes of law enforcement."

Trump: "We honour our flag. And if others honoured our flag, they'd be a lot better off." "...we stand for the national anthem."

"San Diego, they're being just overrun...overrun by people pouring. So they're begging us for a wall." San Diego is not begging for a wall. Trump then falsely says the wall has been "started in San Diego." Only prototypes have been built there.

Trump calls California Gov. Jerry Brown "Moonbeam." He rails against sanctuary cities.

Trump: "The Democrats don't care about our military. They don't." He says that is also true of the border and crime.

Trump is singling out the votes of Michigan Democatic Sen. Debbie Stabenow. He says to the people of Michigan: "You people just keep putting her back again and again and again. It's YOUR fault."

Trump now says the stock market, which hasn't been great this year, is not really the "all-time indicator" of economic health. He says the stock market is good, but the country's economy is doing much better.

When Trump starts talking about North Korea, some of the crowd starts loudly chanting "NO-BEL." He laughs and says, "I just want to get the job done."

Trump on dealing with North Korea: "I may go in, it may not work out, I leave. I'm not going to be a John Kerry." For the 10th time in office, he falsely says the Obama administration gave Iran $150 billion.

Trump mocks a "fake news group" that asked what Trump had to do with this week's developments in North Korea. His response: "Like, how 'bout: everything?"

Trump warns Montana Sen. Jon Tester that he could ruin him: "I know things about Tester that I could say too. And if I said 'em, he'd never be elected again."

Trump on Ronny Jackson: "Admiral Jackson started studying and he was working so hard. I suggested it to him. War hero..."

"I'm tougher on Russia. Nobody ever thought. In fact. Have you heard about the lawyer? For a year, a woman lawyer..."

Trump is offering an elaborate and bizzare theory for why Natalia Veselnitskaya now claims to be an "informant" in contact with the Russian government, claiming it's actually because he's so tough on Russia that...I don't even understand

Trump links the accusations against Ronny Jackson to the collusion accusation against him, saying it's all innuendo from an unnamed "they."

Trump is on an extended rant against Comey, the "two lovers" at the FBI, and Andrew McCabe. He falsely says again that Andrew McCabe took $700,000. He references the pathological liar character Jon Lovitz once played on Saturday Night Live.

Trump says there might be "a little pain" because of his hard line on trade, but it'll be good in the end - "ultimately for my farmers: I love my farmers." Interesting "my."

Trump mentions NAFTA only in passing in Michigan. This is the type of venue in which he used to rant against the deal.

Trump on China: "When we lose $500 billion a year, and that's in a trade deficit..."

That is the 30th time in office he has given an inaccurate figure for the China trade deficit. It is $337 billion.

Trump says the European Union sounds friendly, but "literally: they formed to take advantage of the United States." That is false.

Trump with some admiration: "I looked at President Xi, and he's the BOSS. He's the guy."

Trump brings back one of his weirdest false claims, saying he was named Michigan's "Republican of the Year" even before he was running. He used to claim he was named Michigan Man of the Year, period, which is not a thing.

Trump says he says this not as a "braggadocios" thing but just as "fact": "Nobody in the first year of office has done what we've done. It's not me, it's we."

Trump says the employment situation is now so strong that the U.S. needs to allow in low-skill guest workers, but then they have to leave. "Guest workers. Don't we agree? We have to have 'em." Some mild applause.

"Trillion with a T." For the 11th time, Trump falsely claims the U.S. has spent $7 trillion on Middle East wars. One Brown University estimate puts it at $4.3 trillion.

Trump is getting even more detailed in his almost certainly fictional story about how he almost signed a plan to spend $1 billion on a new Jerusalem embassy and then stopped. He now says: "It's signed Donald and then it stopped and I put a big X over the Donald."

Trump is complaining about "some genius" who decided to move the U.S. embassy in London even though it was on "THE best site." It was moved because the Bush administration decided it couldn't be secured against terrorism in a dense neighbourhood.

Trump says the U.S. embassy in London is on a "lousy" site, and that's why he wouldn't cut the ribbon. "I'm not cutting that ribbon!" Amending his earlier tweeted false claim that it was Obama's fault, he says it was also Bush's fault.

Trump: "Kanye West gets it. He gets it. He gets it." He says Kanye noticed that African-American unemployment is at a record low.

For the 16th time, Trump falsely claims "wages are going up for the first time in many, many years." They have been rising since 2014.

Trump: "Any Hispanics in the room? Hispanic? Nah, not so many, that's okay."

Trump is falsely suggesting that the U.S. is the only country that registers asylum seekers and releases them pending a hearing.

Trump on the migrant caravan: "The crime that they inflict on themselves and that others inflict on them - it's a horrible, dangerous journey for them." I've seen no evidence of people in the caravan committing crimes.

Trump says the U.S. is putting up "gorgeous" border wall. He says Democrats want migrants to enter the country because they know they'll vote for Democrats. (Asylum claimants can eventually obtain citizenship and vote; illegal immigrants can't vote.)

Trump has taken a break as a doctor attends to someone in the crowd. People are shouting that they love him. Some are trying to start a "lock her up" chant.

Trump reminisces about him and Clinton both having rallies in Grand Rapids, Michigan at the end of the election. "They had a very small crowd," he says of Clinton.

Trump twice says he had 32,000 people at his election-eve rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

The hall had a capacity of 4,200.

Local media estimated 8,000 total including people stuck outside.

Trump warns that Democrats will try to impeach him if they retake the House.

Trump warns his supporters against complacency in the midterms, but he says they're going to do well because the economy is so great and because "we're respected again" around the world.

Trump: Don't blame foreign leaders, blame the American presidents who used to stand in my place - "with much smaller crowds."

Trump gives an unprompted shout-out to Corey Lewandowski, bringing Lewandowski on stage to shout "THIS IS TRUMP COUNTRYYY."

Trump boasts that Lewandowski is 1-for-1 on presidential campaigns. He fired Lewandowski four months before the election.

Trump again brings up John McCain's vote against Obamacare repeal. Some scattered boos.

Trump, boasting about eliminating the individual mandate, on Obamacare: "Some people would say essentially we've gotten rid of it." If anyone says that, they are not correct!

President Donald Trump: "Nobody really knows what a community college is."

Trump: "Nobody knows what a community college is. We're going to start using - and we had this - 'VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS.'"

Both exist. They are different things. People know this.

Trump says that as soon as he gets back to Washington he is going to get to work on fixing Michigan's Soo Locks, which he sounds like he may have just heard of.

"It's time to look past the old divisions...and finally come together as one nation under God," Trump says, returning to his prepared text, after...that.

Trump on him and Macron: "We like shaking each other's hand."

Trump reads a line about how America put a man on the moon, then ad-libs: "By the way, excuse me, do you see how our space program is going? A little different!" He then touts the SpaceX launch.

For the second time this month, Trump falsely says FDR served 16 years. He served 12.

Trump boasts of his Rasmussen poll numbers, and he complains that CNN - which, again, he doesn't watch - doesn't cover them. "You ever notice, CNN?"

Trump says he could be at the "phony" correspondents dinner putting on a fake smile because the media demands one, but he wouldn't want to be smiling because he doesn't like those people.

Trump on a military strike: "Look at what happened in Syria: boom, boom, BING."

Trump, who is speaking in April 2018, boasts that he did really well in early 2016 voting in Tennessee, drawing even low-frequency voters out of the rural hills.

Trump now says "somebody from the news" is the one who said Trump is the only one who "accomplished more than he promised." He is the one who said that, though he keeps attributing it to unnamed others.

Trump has concluded. I am off for a week. Have fun everybody