Trump on Mueller's appointment: "You put the wrong people in a couple of positions...and all of a sudden they're trying to take you out with bullshit." Some of the crowd chants BULL-SHIT.
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Trump says his unnamed non-friend "chokes" whenever he has to make a speech to nine or more people, because of a fear of public speaking, even though "he kills people for a living, meaning mentally and financially."
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This is one of the least-hinged speeches Trump has given in a long time.
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Trump criticizes "a guy named David Weigel" of the Post for his erroneous tweet, 14 months ago, saying Trump did not have a big crowd. (Weigel apologized.) He mocks Weigel for getting to the rally so early because "he doesn't fly private," maybe because of "the carbon footprint."
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Trump falsely claims he has not had an empty seat at any arena.
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Trump says he's been advised not to talk about this crowd-size-media stuff, but he says people won't understand unless he talks about it. He is still ranting about
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Trump is now talking at length about his inauguration crowd. He said he watched some television show "by mistake" and they were very unfair about it. "I saw pictures that there were no people. Those pictures were taken hours before."
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Trump says he is constantly telling his communications aide Mercedes Schlapp to show people pictures of his crowds, I think.
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Trump says his aides say, about his crowd sizes, "Sir, it doesn't matter, nobody cares." He says he responds, "But I care." He says, "I have to live with [mocking voice] 'crowd size.' It's all a phony deal, folks."
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After more than five minutes ranting about his crowd sizes, Trump says he'll now return to unspecified political content people are here for. He urges them not to "fall asleep."
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Trump applauds the state lawsuit seeking to get Obamacare invalidated in its entirety. He promises "really great health care" from Republicans if that happens.
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Trump says his friends used to call him and say "Hey Don, hey Donnie," but now they say, very respectfully, "Mr. President. How are you, sir?" He says he tells them, "Lighten up. Call me Donald."
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After talking about policy stuff for like 30 seconds, Trump is now on an extended story about talking on the phone with his old friends, ribbing them for how deferential they now are. He concludes, "Maybe that's a good thing. That's called respect for the office."
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Trump says the new North American trade deal makes it "prohibitively hard" for companies to move to Mexico to manufacture. Rules governing almost all manufacturing industries, other than the auto industry, haven't been substantially changed from NAFTA.
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"We're down to 3.7% unemployment. The lowest number in a long time," Trump says of the 4.0% unemployment rate.
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Trump on immigration and Congress: "They have to be people that can love our country, not hate our country. We have people in Congress, right now, that hate our country."
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Trump says, of either immigrants or unspecified Democratic members of Congress he is accusing of hating America - I'm not sure on first listen - "How did they do in their country?...Not so good." He says he knows some people will say it's "terrible" he says this.
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Trump says India is a high-tariff country, but nobody knows this because "nobody knows what they're doing in Washington."
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Trump is musing about anti-tariff members of Congress. "I even like some of them. But they're smart. So we take that out of the equation. And I know they don't have evil intentions. And the other thing...maybe these companies are all owned by people...campaign contributions..."
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Trump on Powell: "We have a gentleman that likes raising interest rates in the Fed. We have a gentleman that likes quantitative tightening in the Fed...so with all of those things...with all of that, we're doing great. Can you imagine if we left interest rates where they were?"
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Trump's villains in this speech have included three people he appointed - Sessions, Rosenstein, Powell - plus Republican legislators who support free trade.
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Trump falsely claims that over 600,000 manufacturing jobs have been created on his watch. He has previously said it was over 500,000 but would "very soon" be 600,000, now just decided it is indeed over 600,000. It was 454,000 through January.
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Trump falsely claims that the unemployment rate is the lowest in "51 years." It dropped briefly in 2018 to a 49-year low, but it's now at an 18-year low (ignoring earlier days of the Trump era).
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Trump calls the Democratic presidential candidates "these maniacs," falsely claiming they want people to take "trains to Hawaii."
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On second listen, seems like Trump was indeed talking Democratic about members of Congress who immigrated from elsewhere. He referred to their birth country, not the U.S., as "their country."https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1101905601867776000 …
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Trump is now attacking California's forest management practices.
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Trump mocks "the Never Trumpers," saying "they are on mouth to mouth resuscitation. Mouth to mouth. Mouth to mouth." There are cheers.
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Trump claims that Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom told him privately that he is a great president and extremely smart, but that Newsom will not admit this in public. Trump has a long history of inventing things people supposedly told him over the phone.
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Trump falsely claims, of his military spending, "nobody's ever heard of these numbers before." Obama signed a bigger NDAA in 2011 than Trump has to date.
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For the eighth time, Trump falsely claims that the US was supposed to be in the US for merely "four months." There was never a timetable on the deployment.
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Trump falsely claims that he didn't leave the White House for "months and months" before his trip to Iraq in December. He said he thought it'd "look good" if he stayed in the White House so people would "love me and vote for me."
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Trump is now talking at length about how he was supposedly all alone in the White House for New Year's. People say "awww." He tells them not to cry. He then talks again about all the guys with machine guys who were there too.
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Trump now says that the US will likely have captured 100% of the ISIS caliphate "as of tomorrow." He said Thursday that it has already happened.
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