Donald Trump is nearly an hour late for his own rally, but apparently the medication finally kicked in because the Big Guy finally walked onto stage.
The visual is striking: a defeated Trump, separated from the supporters he loathes by a thick wall of bulletproof glass, barely raising his hands to wave as he prepares to muddle on through this last event.
MULVANEY, 11/7/20: If Trump loses, he will concede gracefully

TRUMP, 1/6/21: "We will never concede."
"They're all running around like chickens with their heads cut off with boxes of...nobody knows what the hell is going on."

@RealDonaldTrump barely finishing his sentences as he rushes through the final rally of his presidency.
"We will not take the name off the Washington Monument. You know. Cancel culture. They wanted to do it...they'll knock out Lincoln too, by the way."

Pretty standard @RealDonaldTrump rally filler right now, honestly.
Trump says the @GOP has "some great Republicans" and says he could name "24 of them" but only manages to mention Jim Jordan by name.
"You've got a lot of great ones, but you've got a lot of weak ones," Trump says of the @GOP just a day after it lost a sweeping double senate election in Georgia.

"Unbelievable what we have to go through. Unbelievable."
"We're gonna have to primary the hell out of" @GOP elected officials Trump considers insufficiently loyal. Says he already has a list in mind and will "let you know who they are."

Bad news for any Republicans expecting a moment of peace in 2022.
"We demand Congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated," Trump urges.

So...all of them? There's not a single state-authorized competing slate before Congress.
"We've not only made life wonderful for so many people, we've saved a tremendous amount of money" Trump says of the VA, which is experiencing a record number of veteran suicides under his watch.
It turns out 4chan sucked at running the federal government, who knew?
"They gave these people bad things to vote for, and they voted because what do they know?"

One of Trump's most consistent beliefs is that regular people are suckers, and if he doesn't grift them, well, someone else will.
"I said, 'Give 'em $2,000, we'll pay it back! We'll pay it back fast! Give 'em a couple of bucks! Let 'em live! Some of the people here disagree with me on that."

Trump describing his conversation with the Senate @GOP on #COVID19 stimulus is...something.
Trump launches into another rant about Hunter Biden and debunked claims of a Biden-China connection. I guess now that he's not going to be president anymore Trump will have plenty of time to investigate every lead.
"Look, I'm not happy with the Supreme Court. They love to rule against me. I picked three people. I fought like hell for 'em...but it almost seems like they're going out of their way to hurt all of us."
"I read about Bill Barr that he's my personal attorney, that he'll do anything for me," Trump says of his Attorney General. "I liked Bill Barr, but he changed, because he didn't want to be considered my personal attorney."

Wow imagine that,
I won't transcribe all of these Trump election fraud rumors because:

1. He's lying
2. There was no election fraud
3. I can't follow most of his leaping
Trump just interrupted his discouse on voter fraud to call millions of American voters "stupid," which is a bold new strategy for the @GOP.
Trump is now on a tear slamming Georgia for not rejecting more absentee ballots during a pandemic, which largely come from from low income and minority voters.

The @GOP can't be any clearer about how much they hate your right to vote.
"Are you a citizenship? You're not allowed to ask that question."

President Donald J. Trump
1/6/2021
"Not a single state has launched an audit" to check on potentially fraudulent ballots, Trump says of states that have absolutely already conducted both recounts and vote audits.
In summary, Trump is now listing off a Greatest Hits album of the 61 election fraud lawsuits federal and state courts have thrown out as being baseless nonsense.

This lecture would really benefit from a PowerPoint.
Vice President Mike Pence has arrived at the Capitol to begin the certification of Joe Biden's 2020 election victory.

"I could just go on forever," Trump says to his supporters. "Let me tell you."
"They say 'While there is no evidence to prove any wrongoing'...I could go on and on telling you about it."
"They say the Constitution doesn't allow me to send the elections back to states. I say yes it does."
As Trump shouts "We won in a landslide" about his 2020 election loss, Vice President Pence and Speaker Pelosi are officially beginning the process of certifying state electoral votes.

"Today is not the end," Trump rationalizes. "It's just the beginning."
Trump's energy level is really dropping as he reaches the end of his final presidential rally.

"You know the wall is built," Trump lies. "Now they want to take the wall down."
"The best is yet to come," Trump tells the audience.

For once, I agree--Congress is already in the process of certifying Trump's blowout electoral loss, recording it forever in the history books.
And that's it, possibly the last Trump rally of his presidency ends with the @GOP booted from the White House and a minority party in Congress.

Now the real show starts as all eyes turn to nearly 12 hours of theatrical Senate Republican hijinks.
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