WASHINGTON—Donald Trump did a campaign rally in Nashville on Tuesday night.It was supposedly intended to support Tennessee Senate candidate Marsha Blackburn. As always, it was about Donald Trump.The president briefly mentioned Blackburn four times. The rest of the speech, he lied, told elaborate stories that very much appeared to be fabrications, lobbed insults at Democrats, talked about the street gang MS-13, boasted of his own successes, and made a few vague promises.Here is a minute-by-minute account of what happened:8:11 p.m.: “I love country music,” Trump says. 8:14: Trump talks about how people said he could never earn the 270 electoral votes he needed to win the presidency, but then he did.8:15: Trump says of reporters: “There they are, right back there. They’re fake. They are fake.” The crowd boos loudly. “Look how many of them. Look how many. Oh boy. That’s a lot of people back there. That’s a lot of people. Fake news.”8:16: Trump calls up Blackburn. Her pitch: “Tennessee needs a senator who is going to support President Donald Trump.”8:19: Trump says: “There has never been an administration — and even some of our enemies are begrudgingly admitting this — that has done what we’ve done in the first year and a half.” None of Trump’s enemies are saying this.8:19: Trump boasts of creating 3.3 million jobs in the 18 months since election day, then claims that, if he had promised he was going to do this, the media would have “not have accepted it” and would have subjected him to a brutal “onslaught.” In fact, his jobs record is unexceptional: more jobs, 3.9 million, were created under Barack Obama under the previous 18 months.8:20: Trump falsely claims wages are rising “for the first time in many, many years.” Wages have been rising since 2014. The current pace of growth, 2.6 per cent, is lower than the 2.7 per cent p ...
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