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Mar 11, 2018, 43 tweets

Props to the woman with the sequin Trump shirt

Trump begins by bragging about tariffs: "A lot of steel mills are now opening up because of what I did."

Trump takes shots at "evil people" in Washington DC and the "fake" media

"That Washington DC, we've got a lot of evil there but we're getting it out, step by step."

Trump takes credit for the Olympics.

"Well, I'll tell you we did a great job in the Olympics. President Moon of South Korea said 'without Donald Trump olympics would have been a total failure. It's true. It's true. Might as well say it"

Trump calls @chucktodd "a sleepy eyed son of a bitch." #stayclassy

Trump calls CNN "fake as hell," prompting very classy crowd to break out in chants of "CNN sucks!"

Trump is angry with NBC because he gave them "great ratings" with the Celebrity Apprentice but they still cover him critically anyway

Trump starts mumbling about Obama like a lunatic

Trump's audience isn't really here for his attacks on George W Bush

Trump attacks @SenWarren with a racial slur, calls her "Pocahontas" as crowd boos her

Trump is out here ranting about "African unemployment"

Trump downplays his women problems.

"Didn't we surprise them with women during the election? Remember? 'Women won't like Donald Trump.' I said, have I really had that kind of a problem? I don't think so."

(He's been accused of assault by 14 women.)

Trump announces that the slogan of his reelection campaign will be, "Keep American Great!"

Trump repeatedly calls black congresswoman @RepMaxineWaters "a low IQ individual"

Trump admits immigration deal he offered Dems was made in bad faith.

"I offered a deal that was so good you can't refuse, right? Like the mob pictures, 'I'll give you a deal that's so good, you can't refuse.'.. I did it because I thought they were going to refuse & they did"

Trump criticizes Reagan on trade, says this about tariffs: "When other countries would come to the United States, they had to pay for the privilege of taking our product, (?) of taking our jobs. They had to pay."

Trump on the European Union: "You hear 'European Union' -- it sounds so innocent. It's not innocent."

Trump takes credit for Karen Handel's win over Jon Ossoff, says "I hope I don't have to make speeches all over like I did last time."

Trump on Conor Lamb: "The people of Pittsburgh cannot be conned by this guy Lamb. You just can't do it. Because he's, again, he's never going to vote for us. He can say 'I love President Trump. I agree with everything he says. 'You know what? I don't want to meet him."

Trump says he doesn't know what "tax reform" means: "He said, 'no, sir, we call it tax reform because we're doing a lot of reform.' I said look, people don't know what reform means. Neither do I. People want tax cuts. They don't know. They don't know. They want tax cuts!"

"Do you like me? [cheering] I like you too. I love you."

Trump is playing the greatest hits, attacking the media for purportedly not covering his crowd sizes

On topic of immigration, Trump says "we're cleaning out" as crowd chants, "Build the wall!" #anxious

Trump claims he canceled a meeting with president of Mexico after he asked Trump to publicly acknowledge that Mexico won't pay for it -- then immediately pivots to attacking Democrats for not wanting to spend American taxpayer dollars on it

Trump on Melania: "You think her life is so easy, folks? Not so easy."

Trump, inspired by Duterte's example, claims he wants to execute drug dealers

Trump on why he thinks America should execute drug dealers: "I don't think we should play games."

Trump's unhinged commentary on MS-13: "They like to use knife & other things because it's much more painful and much slower. These are animals. We send [ICE agents] out and those guys liberate them. We liberate those towns. Hillary wouldn't have liberated them. It's like a war."

Trump claims that "thousands of people" were turned away from his speech tonight.

Trump -- pretending to be a robot -- mockingly thanks military veterans for their service

Trump thanks his supporters for buying his campaign merch. #TheGriftNeverStops

Trump, recounting his 2016 electoral victory, mocks Hillary supporters who cried when election was called for him

Trump brags that November 8, 2016 was "one the greatest nights in the history of television in terms of the numbers of people watching."

Trump -- whose last rally speech was in support of alleged child molester Roy Moore -- says of Rick Saccone: "Number one -- and I don't know that this is important, but to me it is -- he's a very fine human being."

Saccone speaks for a few seconds, screams

And that's it. As was the case in 2016, Trump rallies are grotesque and an embarrassment to our country.

Warren on Trump attacking her w/racial slur: "I spoke to tribal leaders & I promised them that every time Trump throws out a racial slur I'm going to use it as a chance to lift up their stories."

Then talks about how native women are disproportionately victims of sexual violence

Steve Mnuchin defends Trump calling @RepMaxineWaters "a low IQ individual" as nothing more than "a campaign rally issue."

"You know he likes to put names on people, including all the Republicans that he beat, so these are campaign rally issues."

CHUCK TODD: At a rally last night, the President of the United States encouraged booing of the press while discouraging booing of a murderous dictator. Your reaction?

MNUCHIN: "What you should focus on is we've had a great week of results."

Mnuchin dismisses Trump's attacks on the press and praise for dictators, says people should focus on Trump's "policies."

"Don't take these campaign rallies and focus on them... I'm focused on the policies."

Pressed by Todd about how he can possibly defend Trump's "vulgarities" to his own children, Mnuchin dismisses them as "funny moments" that took place "in the context of a campaign rally."

I wish @chucktodd would’ve asked Mnuchin to respond specifically to Trump calling him “a sleepy eyed son of a bitch.”

DEVOS on Trump calling @chucktodd "a sleepy eyed son of a bitch" -- "Well, I would probably use different language myself, and I think we all have an opportunity and responsibility to be examples to our kids... that would include the president as well."

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