Newsman: Former President Donald Trump sees his opponent “the enemy from within” and described the media as “the enemy of the people while Donald Trump delivering his speech at a packed rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday. He spoke his topics from immigration to the economy of the country. And he did offer some new policy positions from the stage, among them that he would “support a tax credit for family caregivers who take care of a parent or loved one,” which comes as Harris has heavily promoted her proposal to expand Medicare to allow it to cover long-term in-home care.
Former President Trump said, he will make America affordable again through immediately cutting taxes for workers, small businesses, and no taxes on tips, overtime and social security benefits. He will cut the energy price by half within a year.
Trump said, “We will achieve the success that was never imagined. We will have strongest country, most secure border, safest cities and most powerful military. “He also said “Our country will be bigger, better, bolder, richer and strongest than ever before.
Donald Trump emphasized through winning this election, “you will see a new golden age of America.”
Donald Trump has long wanted to hold a rally at Madison Square Garden. Trump’s campaign billed the event as the kick off to his closing argument and the event’s pre-program was stacked with MAGA stars and billionaires ranging from Elon Musk and former Fox News star Tucker Carlson to former pro-wrestler Hulk Hogan.
The former president was introduced by his wife, Melania Trump, and started his speech by asking the audience, “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?” The crowd yelled back, “No.”
Trump’s remarks in his hometown New York City went for more than an hour At the World’s Most Famous Arena and before one of his largest rally crowds. Trump expressed a strong desire to shape policy in New York City should he win this fall, promising to work with Adams and Hochul. It was similar to his messaging at a Bronx rally this spring.
“This is unbelievable. I’ve watched the Knicks and Rangers here,” he said, referring to two of New York’s professional basketball and hockey teams. “There’s no place like Madison Square Garden.”
Trump and his supporters made it clear from the stage they actually think they can win New York. In his speech, Trump, who spent most of his life as a prominent New York real estate magnate, said a victory in the state “would be such an honor,” noting a Republican hasn’t won in decades.
“They all say, ‘Sir, you’re wasting your money,’” he said. “I don’t think so.”
“I had a friend of mine, smart guy, he’s a billionaire, texted me this morning and he said, ‘Why the hell are you guys wasting your time in New York City instead of going to a swing state?’” businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, who sought the GOP nomination this year, said in his remarks. “You wonder what I told him. I said: ‘Welcome to 2024. New York is a swing state.’”
Speaking at the rally, Donald Trump also said he wants “any migrant who kills someone in the U.S.” to face the death penalty.” And he offered insight into his thinking about how Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the former independent presidential candidate who is backing Trump’s bid, would fit into a future administration.
Kennedy would “go wild on health,” Trump said. “I’m going to let him go wild on the food. I’m going to let him go wild on medicines.”
Donald Trump sees his opponent the enemy from within and said,
“It’s just this amorphous group of people, but they’re smart and they’re vicious, and we have to defeat them,” Trump said in explaining his use of “the enemy from within.”
“And when I say the enemy from within, the other side goes crazy. … They’ve done very bad things to this country. They are indeed the enemy from within. But this is who we’re fighting,” he continued.
The former President Trump referred to Harris’ “low IQ” and described her as a “vessel” for those aforementioned opponents, and said in a potential war with China the U.S. “would kick their ass.”
Trump thanked New York City’s recently indicted mayor, Eric Adams, for saying Trump shouldn’t be called a fascist.
“That’s nice,” Trump said, adding that Adams, a Democrat, “has been treated pretty badly.”
“Very nice,” he said.
Trump speech was followed by warm-up speakers roughly for five hours before his prime-time address.
The event began with comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, host of the “Kill Tony” podcast, who opened the rally with a set replete with slurs about Latinos, African Americans and other groups that Trump’s campaign is actively targeting to turn out for the former president.
Latinos “love making babies. There’s no pulling out. They come inside, just like they do to our country,” Hinchcliffe said to laughter inside the arena. He added: “There’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico.”
His racist remarks drew swift rebuke from across the political spectrum. The Trump campaign sought to distance itself from Hinchcliffe’s routine.
Danielle Alvarez, a senior adviser to Trump’s campaign, said in a statement that Hinchcliffe’s “joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign.”
Guest speaker at this Mega event, Billionier Elon Musk urge to vote early and said, “It is not only the America is not just going to be the great America is going to reach heights , that it has never seen before, The future is going to be amazing.”
Conservative media personality Tucker Carlson joked that Harris, who is of Black and Indian descent, would be “the first Samoan Malaysian low IQ, former California prosecutor ever to be elected president.”
“Usually when I’m at Madison Square Garden I’m body-slamming giants,” said former pro-wrestler Hulk Hogan, who also spoke at the Republican National Convention. “The energy in here is something like I’ve never felt.”
“This is Donald Trump’s house, brother,” Hogan said. “You know something Trumpmaniacs, I don’t see no stinking Nazis in here,” he said, referring to the infamous 1939 Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden.
Trump supporter David Rem called Harris the “anti-Christ.” Businessman Grant Cardone claimed Harris has “pimp handlers.” Radio host Sid Rosenberg called Hillary Clinton, Trump’s 2016 rival and a former secretary of state, a “sick son of a bitch” and cast Democrats more broadly as “Jew-haters and lowlives.”
Two former Democrats, Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., attacked their old party and Republicans who are supporting Kamala Harris
The crowd also gave a standing ovation to Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor who lost his law license and was ordered by a New York judge this week to hand over some of his assets, including a $5 million Manhattan apartment and a signed Joe DiMaggio jersey, to two Georgia poll workers who won a defamation suit against him.
Madison Square Garden, called “the World’s Most Famous Arena,” can hold 19,500 people. The Trump campaign said the event was sold out and every section of the arena was full.
Thousands of Trump supporters lined up overnight on the streets of New York to get a glimpse of the former president.
The Trump campaign turned the event into a fundraiser, and top donors were given backstage access or were given special skybox seating, POLITICO reported. The top tier “Ultra MAGA experience” was priced at $924,600 — the maximum an individual can donate to the former president’s joint fundraising committee by law — according to an invitation from the campaign, the report said .
And the president’s New Jersey golf club offered charter bus transportation and “private luxury suites” at the rally, according to an invitation that was sent to club members .
