ok who did Melania plagiarize here?

Eric Trump describes his dad as "the greatest president we have ever had" 😭 😂

Eric Trump claims "almost 200,000 people tried to get into this event tonight."

Lara Trump claims "Donald Trump made New York City"

Donald Trump Jr: "The king of New York is back to reclaim the city that he built"

Donald Trump Jr pushes the great replacement conspiracy theory that has inspired numerous right-wing mass shooters

"we must elect Donald J Trump president because we must crush JIHAD!"

Trumpers are all in on this bizarre idea that the greatest era in US history was the 1890s because tariffs and low taxes

Elon Musk, having a normal one

Elon Musk says he thinks when he's serving in the Trump administration that he can cut nearly 1/3 of the federal budget

Elon Musk with more weirdo antics

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Trump begins by asking his fans if they were better off now than they were during the covid pandemic. The crowd indicates they preferred the pandemic.

In an unusual move, MSNBC is carrying Trump's MSG speech live. So is CNN, meaning Trump is currently on all three of the big cable networks.

Trump looks pale tonight and there's lots of weird lips and tongue stuff going on, like his mouth is dry

"That is a lot of fakers back there" -- Trump goads his MSG audience into booing "the fake news"

"A lot of people are coming from the Congo prisons" -- Trump

Trump in NYC claims migrants have taken over Times Square. A pretty egregious lie considering the rally is taking place just blocks away.

"The United States is now an occupied country" -- Trump (it should go without saying that he's lying)

Trump on America in the 1790s, when slavery was legal: "That's when they had law and order." He then addresses Speaker Johnson and says, "get ready"

They're not beating the fascist rally allegations -- huge cheers when Trump calls for the death penalties for migrants who commit murder

"Everyone knows she is a very low IQ individual" -- Trump on Kamala Harris

Trump egregiously lies about the federal Helene response, saying "they haven't even responded in North Carolina"

strong chyrons

Trump seems kinda loopy

The crowd at Madison Square Garden is completely dead as Trump fear-mongers about the draft

Trump on a possible war with China: "We would kick their ass."

"It's just this amorphous group of people ... they are indeed the enemy from within" -- Trump is indulging in Infowars-level conspiracism

Trump claims 101,000 people turned out for his rally in Butler (the Secret Service estimated the attendance was actually 21,000, so he's just off by 80,000 give or take)

Trump on RFK Jr: "I'm gonna let him go wild on health. I'm gonna let him go wild on the foods. I'm gonna let him go wild on the medicines."

"I would like to have their children" -- Trump on JD and Usha Vance

Trump: "Perfect, perfect, young, beautiful girls were cut up into little pieces by knives. MS-13. They're animals."

"They're the enemy of the people. The press" -- Trump

Trump: "Mayor Adams has been treated pretty badly ... I think they upgraded his seat in an airplane. I hear that's a very serious charge ... I don't know. Maybe it's something else."

"We're gonna build a beautiful dome over our country" -- Trump

Trump singles out Mike Johnson and calls for him to pass a bill making flag burning punishable by a year in prison

Trump: "For the past nine years we have been fighting against the most sinister and corrupt forces on earth."

Trump craps on New York in New York: "When I left New York was the place you wanted to be and now people just don't speak well of it."

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