Unbelievable. All that insanity and The Washington Post leads with this headline…
and calls the speech “relatively tame”:
“Trump, who was in his element before a crowd of red-hat-wearing fans, spoke for more than 90 minutes, testing his reelection pitch in a state he narrowly won in 2016, securing him the presidency.
In a relatively tame speech that focused largely on the strength of the economy, Trump still hit all the key points that energize his base from mentioning Hillary Clinton to spur “Lock her up” chants” and the late senator John McCain’s health-care vote to elicit boos.
Trump scheduled the rally in the critical battleground state to counter the White House Correspondent’s Dinner back in Washington, which he has declined to attend since becoming president.
“By the way, Saturday night, is there any place that’s more fun than a Trump rally?” he said. “Can you imagine Sleepy Joe, Crazy Bernie? . . . I think Pocahontas, she’s finished . . . can you imagine any of those people up here doing what I’m doing?”
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[cross-posted to PolitiZoom]