The 47 most ridiculous lines from Donald Trump's Las Vegas speech
It's getting hot in here!
Donald Trump went to Nevada on Sunday. And people weathered triple digit temperatures to watch him speak for roughly an hour. Without teleprompters!
This quote, from the Las Vegas Review-Journal, is super telling:
“If Trump can stand here and be in this heat with us in a suit and tie, we can do whatever we have to do ,” said Las Vegas resident Sara Rose, who left her house at 2 a.m. to get to the event. “I would have crawled here if I had to.”
And what a speech they saw! I don’t want to spoil the surprise but let’s just say you will learn A LOT about Donald Trump’s views on shark attacks!
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To the lines!
“It's not too hot out here, right?”
How about this weather, amirite? And away we go!
“Did you see we put out a notice saying don't come? So only 20,000 people showed up.”
The obsession with crowd size is one of the things Trump has been consistent about since becoming a politician eight years ago. Also, the Las Vegas police estimated that 6,900 people were at the rally.
“And you always have to say it correctly. Nevada, you ain't got to call it Nevada.”
It’s “Ne-vad-ah” not “Ne-vod-uh.”
“We're going to knock off the Biden crime family as a Biden family of crime, including the fact that they've weaponized the Department of Justice like has never happened in this country.”
You know, the Biden crime family. Or, if you prefer, the Biden family of crime.
“For three and a half years, the people of Nevada have had a front row seat to Joe Biden's evil and criminal obliteration of our southern border.”
“Evil.”
“Let's make it a little bit tougher because he's getting killed in the poll. We're leading here by like 12 points.”
Trump is ahead of Biden by 5 points in Nevada.
“This word seems to be catching on a little bit, but in a much more positive way than deplorable.”
He is talking about the word “bullshit.” More and more people are saying it, I hear. Bigly.
“We built 571 miles of border wall.”
[narrator voice] “We” did not.
“If this guy just, you know, he goes to the beach all the time. Somebody thinks he looks good in a bathing suit. I don't think so.”
Trump says this ALL the time. I don’t know where he gets it, honestly. I mean, Biden has a home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. But, it’s not like he’s sitting on the beach all the time there?
“And if anybody goes down, if you start going down, we have people, they'll pick you up right away. They'll throw water.”
He’s talking about people passing out from the heat. “They’ll throw water.”
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