HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, Ky. (AP) — President Donald Trump touted his power during his second round at the White House Saturday as he rallied in Kentucky to boost Republican turnout as his party struggles in the midterms, saying, “I can do incredible things.” »
Trump, who spoke in the town of Highland Heights to encourage Republican candidates, including Ed Gallrein, for the House of Representatives, mocked his decision to change how the U.S. government refers to the Gulf of Mexico as America’s Gulf.
“I don’t think I could have done that in my first term. It’s a much more powerful term,” Trump said. “Google wouldn’t have answered my call the first time. Now they’re kissing my ass.”
“Well, I also changed the name of a lake in Canada to Lake America,” he continued, referring to Lake Ontario.
Trump’s Self-Proclaimed Power Opposes Voters frustration with how he used itwith tariffs and the war in Iran driving up prices and more Americans seeing the president look after one’s own interests and not those of the country.
With control of both houses of Congress at stake, and with it the prospects of Democratic-led investigations into his administration if he wins, Trump put himself first for voters, asking them to “pretend I’m on the ballot.” But Republicans privately fear that growing disapproval of his administration could be a liability.
Trump appointed one of his personal lawyers as attorney general, ordered military strikes on boats accused of drug trafficking, tries to put his name on the Kennedy Center and has got rich and his family while he was in office.
While addressing the issues on stage in Kentucky, Trump addressed the price of gas, saying the war with Iran would soon end — a claim he has made repeatedly during the nearly eight-month conflict — and that gas prices would fall to a lower level than before. The crowd applauded.
Facing electoral headwinds, Trump is working to paint a bleak picture of Democrats in the final weeks leading up to the midterm elections. This includes the claim that if his opposing party wins, the United States will “experience a depression” and that the Democratic agenda includes the abolition of the United States Senate and the United States Supreme Court.
These elements do not appear on the Democratic Party platform. But Trump is trying to lump them in with the Democratic Socialists of America, a few of whose candidates won this year’s primary elections.
Trump also rehashed his dubious promise that if Republicans won the House and Senate, then every adult American would receive $5,000. It would most likely cost more than $1 trillion and require congressional approval, while also widening the nation’s annual budget deficit by nearly $1.8 trillion.
Trump added a new, seemingly conditional promise for Kentucky. That if Republicans win, he said, the Defense Department would invest in revitalizing a drug manufacturing plant in the state.
The president brought to the stage Gallrein, the Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives district who defeated Rep. Thomas Massie in the GOP primary. Massie had annoyed Trump by pushing for the release of Jeffrey Epstein’s files and opposing the war in Iran, and the president responded by successfully supporting Gallrein in the party’s primaries.
Massie, however, still has supporters for standing up for his staunchly conservative principles, even if it meant voting against his own party. When Trump called Massie an “asshole” and a “loser” and introduced Gallrein as a more loyal replacement, the crowd’s response was lukewarm, with about half the arena applauding Trump’s barbs and the other half silent.
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