Former President Donald Trump – a future presidential hopeful – came to the Greensboro Coliseum Special Events Center on Tuesday evening, Oct. 22, and, for a couple of hours, delighted the crowd that, for the most part, already knew exactly who they were going to vote for this year – if they hadn’t voted already that is.
In recent rallies, Trump has been somewhat rambling and all over the place – sometimes just swaying to the music and not speaking – however, in Greensboro Tuesday night Trump went off course occasionally, but for the most part he stayed on the issues that could very well win him the election.
He constantly drove home the two subjects his supporters see as his strongest issues: the economy and immigration.
He also, of course, threw in some of his old favorites – like claiming that his Democratic opponent Kamala Harris is “stupid” and that Joe Biden has been the worst president in the history of the country – however, much of his speech was on the economy and immigration.
His comments on those subjects were particularly welcomed by his supporters, many of whom had been waiting since 11 a.m. that day for the 7 p.m. event.
By early afternoon, hundreds of Trump voters were already lined up to get a good seat to see their hero – the man who was president four years ago before narrowly losing the 2020 election to President Joe Biden, or “Sleepy Joe,” as Trump likes to call him.
Trump told the crowd that, when he, Trump, was president, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin was too worried about the consequences to invade Ukraine.
However, after Biden became president, Trump said, Putin saw “how weak we were and how pathetic we were due to the stupid generals calling the shots.”
“What a stupid group of people they were,” Trump said of the generals, some of whom are now major critics of Trump.
Trump said the “real” generals were the ones he used to defeat ISIS.
In Greensboro, Trump promised to make America energy independent and bring the cost of fuel down.
“We will frack, frack, frack, and we will drill, baby, drill!” Trump told the thousands of supporters who came from around Guilford County as well as from very distant places to see the former president.
“In 12 months from January 20th – that’s the day we take office – I will cut your energy prices by 50 percent,” he pledged.
He added that this country has a lot of “liquid gold” and said that, when we start taking it out of the ground with abandon, not only are energy prices going to come down but so will the cost of many other items.
“Then everything else is going to start coming down too,” he said, “because you’re paying too much.”
The former president added that people tell him all the time that grocery prices are out of control: “They say the overall effect of the cost of bacon and lettuce and all of this stuff – this is the biggest, the worst we’ve ever had. We’ve never had anything like it.”
Trump added that, back when he was president, the interest rate was 2.2 percent.
“Now it’s 10 percent, and you can’t get any money – so it’s much higher than 10 percent,” he told the crowd.
According to Trump, the cost of gas was $1.84 a gallon when he was president, and now it’s nearly $4 a gallon – and it has, at times during the Biden administration, hit $7 and $8 a gallon in California.
“We were at $1.84 and everybody was happy,” Trump told the extremely supportive crowd.
At the rally, Trump also pledged to clean up the crime in Washington, DC.
“We’re going to clean that city up and we’re going to make it greater,” he said. “We’re going to make it safe to go down to the Washington Monument, and you can see the statue of Thomas Jefferson.”
“They wanted to rip that down, remember?” he said. “They wanted to rip down the statue of Thomas Jefferson and I said, ‘That’s not going to happen!’”
He told his supporters that, when he was president, and protesters began defacing and tearing down federal monuments, he quickly signed a new law that provided10-year prison sentences for anyone who defaced a national monument.
If Trump wins the presidency this year, inflation will probably be the greatest contributing factor to that victory.
“Millions of Americans are suffering,” he said.
“Because of inflation they’re losing their jobs and they can’t afford housing, groceries or a car – and yet Kamala is importing millions of illegals across our borders and giving them taxpayer benefits at your expense while taking the jobs from African Americans and from Hispanic Americans at levels that we have never seen.”
According to Trump, the current administration favors illegal aliens over American veterans who’ve served this country faithfully.
He said that’s clear because the current government puts illegal aliens up in luxury hotels, “while homeless veterans sleep on the street right in front of that hotel.”
Trump added that voters across North Carolina and America can put a stop to all that by voting the correct way in two weeks.
“For four straight years, Kamala Harris has imported an army of illegal alien gang members and migrant criminals from prisons and jails, from insane asylums and mental institutions from all around the world – from Venezuela to South America,” Trump said.
He added that those immigrants constantly prey upon innocent Americans, thanks to Biden and Harris.
“She’s a stupid person – open borders, open borders,” he said, adding, “No checking, no vetting.”
He touted the fact that he had received the endorsement of border patrol agencies.
Since he was in North Carolina, he also, of course, addressed the federal response to Hurricane Helene in the western part of the state.
“She spent the last four years taking your money to provide shelter and benefits to illegal aliens,” he told the crowd. “But when North Carolina needed help, Kamala Harris was nowhere to be found.”
The former president added, “They’re gonna probably have to call an emergency meeting, a special session of Congress, because the illegal aliens – many of them killers, many of them drug dealers, many of them released from prison – have taken the money that they were supposed to spend in North Carolina and Georgia and Alabama and Tennessee and Florida and South Carolina.”
Trump continued, “The money was supposed to be spent in those states and they don’t have the money now – they don’t have the money because they’ve spent, think of it, hundreds of millions of dollars flying migrants into states all over the country.”
He also said his opponent doesn’t have the compassion, the smarts, or the strength to be president of the United States.
“She can’t do the job,” he said. “She’s not mentally or physically able to do the job, and, on top of all of it, she says she would not do anything differently than crooked Joe Biden, which is disqualifying.”
Toward the end of the rally, former soldier, former Democrat and former US Representative from Hawaii Tulsi Gabbard said a few words.
After greeting the crowd with “Aloha,” she said she was a registered Democrat for over 20 years, but now she is backing Trump because it’s so evident that he’s the right choice in this election.
“He has pledged to end wars, not start them,” Gabbard said.
Harris, likewise, has recently been appearing at her campaign events with Republicans who are now Never Trumpers.
At the rally in Greensboro, Trump complimented the coliseum staff and the venue, saying that buildings were often swelteringly hot when he gave rallies, but that this venue was very comfortable.
“We appreciate the air conditioning,” Trump said.
Everyone, PLEASE make sure to get all your friends and neighbors out to vote for Trump! And especially your Christian friends. If they don’t like Trump as a person, remind them that the alternative is Socialism. Look at the history of Venezuela!
Also , point out to Kamala fans that the President does not make the abortion policies. They’re often too ignorant to know that Roe vs Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court ( not by Trump), and abortion policy is up to the Legislature and voters of each state. ( not the governer).
KEEP AMERICA FREE !
Trump isn’t a Christian. You have been conned.
Christians should vote Kamala as she supports all Americans.
Yeah Chris! She evicted Christians from her rally when they shouted out “Jesus is Lord” ! And she’s never shown any Christian or Jewish values.
THOU SHALT NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS AGAINST THY NEIGHBOR
Chris, you are in deep, deep denial to the point of being mental.
Chris, do you understand the definition of a Christian? Apparently not.
This was a very fair article that Multiple sources will support Trump’s successful term as President and the same sources will support Harris’s total incompetence. The country is currently living the end of the Harris/Biden term. We have many problems to fix in this country the least of which are not the illegal immigration and an exploding crime problem. If Trump just fixes these two problems, he will have more than earned my vote. Trump backs his talk up with action unlike Harris. I have tried but can not find or think of a single accomplishment she has to her credit during her entire career. Hard to make a mistake if you do nothing.
She said she worked at McDonald’s to try and humanize herself which I feel is a total lie. A simple check of her income tax form in the year in question would probably quickly prove that truth is not on her side. All wages must be reported. AMERICA desperately needs strong leadership and proven leadership. That is why I am voting for Trump.
Just to make sure I understand. You think Kamala should provide a tax return from a part-time summer job from forty years ago? Meanwhile Trump, who runs an extremely large business, cannot provide a tax return of any type. Got it.
Weird how conservatives feel so threatened by Kamala having worked at McDonalds. Really points out they have so little to use against her other than their tired exaggerated views on crime and immigration (that their party refused to fix). And of course how little Trump really has to offer other than tariffs that will trigger higher prices, slowed economy and likely a recession. Of course another unfunded tax cut for his wealthy friends while the average American suffers through his poorly thought out tariff economy.
But you be you. It’s still a free country regardless of what BS Trump rants about at his rallies.
Chris, you and KM are two peas in the same pod. What do you do all day for entertainment, tell each other lies?
Chris, If you actually listen to what Trump said, the tariffs were to be on cars made in Mexico with cheap labor, while American auto makers suffer and try to provide us with reliable vehicles.
Listen to Trump’s entire speech, and don’t take parts out of context !
His plan that he has mentioned numerous times, is to apply a tariff for any goods and services imported into the United States. 10 to 20%, but even higher (up to 60%) if imported from China. Which mean most goods in the US have at least some imported components. Including farming, which imports a large portion of federalizer for example. I believe he said tariff was the most beautiful word in the dictionary during his economic chat hosted by Bloomberg. (I am paraphrasing)
He said he would consider up to 100%, 200% or 2000% percent tariff on cars made in Mexico (which includes American cars by the way). He has some made up story about China planning to build giant auto factories in Mexico that were canceled when he announced he was running again. There is no basis of fact to those stories per people in the industry. Not that conservative care about truth or facts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhRAmn7RDis
But you be you.
The draft dodger insulting US Generals must make Alan Marshall show proud.
Let’s also not forget that inflation started to spike in April of 2021 long before Biden implemented any of his fiscal policies….so those high prices you are paying are as much a result of Trumps over stimulating the economy during covid (which he did twice) as Biden’s wasteful covid stimulus spending. Biden inherited the inflation from the covid supply chain issues and Trump’s printing money after giving his rich buddies a huge tax cut.
Of course, Trump still lies about FEMA funds, long ago debunked. Why? Not because it is good for those suffering in WNC or that he wants to help the people of WNC, but because the division and hate feeds his base to vote for him so he can try to regain the power he lost. Hopefully enough people of NC see through his lies and misinformation to turn the state Blue this election.
The borders aren’t open. If they were open, how come Biden has deported over a million people per year?
Good thing over half of the US sees through Trumps lies and misinformation and will put Kamala into the Whitehouse in 2025!
It must be an interesting little world that you live in.
Reality can be interesting at times
You should give it a try.
Chris, you and your dim friends are desperate and it shows. Trump will carry NC and will become our next president. Thank the Good Lord that this is the end of dumb, very dumb Kamala Harris.
Yeah Chris! She evicted Christians from her rally when they shouted out “Jesus is Lord” ! And she’s never shown any Christian or Jewish values.
THOU SHALT NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS AGAINST THY NEIGHBOR
Rude and disrespectful protestors should be removed from a rally. Hint, yes, people who profess to be Christians can be a$$hats like any group attempting to disrupt a speaker.
Christ’s message on the role of government was pretty straight forward: “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s”. Christ clearly saw politics as a worldly concept that was to be kept separate from his divinity. Using religion to justify your politics does not align with Christs teachings, as the worldly concept of politics is about power and control of others, where Christs message is about following him. NOT him AND some worldly power-hungry politician on the Left or the Right.
I don’t look to Christ for a political endorsement as He will never give in to such a worldly concept. That is a choice I have to make on my own using what I have learned from His teachings.
But you be you.
“Show”? If the coliseum were expanded to double its capacity, it would have been full with more people watching from the other building and hallways! This is what BLUE Greensboro will never understand. Kamala puts on a show which isn`t even entertaining. Trump reminds us what we have been through and still are and that there is hope to return to the economy he produced before. he reminds us this country belongs to us as Americans, not the millions of Illegals allowed in by Biden/Harris. he reminds us we are ALL Americans and does not shame or denigrate any group or race or creed into voting as they “always have”. He has produced peace, where Biden/Kamala produced wars. He is respected by world leaders and at the same time, his presidency was one of strength and kept leaders such as Putin, Xi, and Kim Jong Un in their place. Biden is a joke and Kamala has proven the same, and these same leaders have responded accordingly. Xi through world expansion, spy balloons over our military installations, shadow cos. near our military bases, Chinese police stations in several American cities. Putin with the war in Ukraine. Kim Jong Un back to more and bigger testing of nuclear weapons. Which world would you rather live in?
Since when did we judge leaders of the free world on their ability to be entertainers? Entertainers by definition are fake and in it only for the applause. If that is what you want….
You be you. it’s still a free country (regardless of the lies Trump tells you)
That’s hilarious! I guess you never saw Nixon sweating on TV, or Bubba Clinton playing crappy sax on Arsenio, or the first articulate black man (as noted by President Corn Pop) who claimed to heal the world by getting nominated as the leftist candidate for POTUS. Successful entertainers by definition are talented – and entertaining. Yet here you are voting for the most fake and non-entertaining presidential candidate in the history of our country. Yeah, it’s still a free country for most of us, but we have political prisoners in swamp jails, we have show trials, blatant corruption, and soviet-style propaganda. It’s still a free country in spite of the crooks that you support.
If that is how you pick your leaders, you be you.
I will stick to voting on issues such as picking a president who doesn’t want to push across the board tariffs that will act like an across-the-board sales tax just as inflation is finally back in check so he can fund another tax cut for himself and his wealthy buddies.
Good summary of the event.
So, as usual, he just told lie after lie after lie. And his cult followers are too stupid to realize he is a conman using their fear and bias to fool them for his gain. Pathetic.
“Greensboro’s Best News Source” made no mention of Tulsi Gabbard’s transition for long time Democrat in cobalt blue Hawaii to Independent to Republican announced at Greensboro’s Trump rally yesterday. Although I’ve often disagreed with her stance on key issues, her principled reasoning and her refusal to always toe party lines have been refreshing. To me her announcing to register as a Republican was the most noteworthy news from the rally, but from the Rhino – nothing!
I don’t disagree with you. There were a lot of very important things that happened in the event that was not covered because we were trying to get something up quick that night, so not everything could be covered due to time and length. That wasn’t left out for any other reason and I appreciate you pointing that out so that people are aware of it. Thanks.
She is just another grifter looking to take advantage of the blind ignorance of the modern conservative Trumpers in order to regain a political seat after her failed attempts at power. Conservstives are low hanging fruit given their gullable nature.
Lol, and Camaliar continues to balk during her intensive cup cake interviews! The few times she has an interview provides the best comedy you can see on tv.
Who is Camaliar? Is that your pretend girlfriend from Canada?
I was there and it was electric
T minus twelve days until Chris’ head explodes.
It will be an exciting day with Kamala wins and Trump has a mental breakdown.
I think a lot of this ugly mud-slinging would not take place if people on here were gathered in a room. All this just makes people mad, and dig their heels in.
In most cases, I believe I am right. Most of my opinions are formed by engagement in news and politics, travel, and having been around a long time. But, I am wrong sometimes, too.
Oh I don’t know, Miller.
I think it would degenerate into bickering pretty quickly.
But he had the house cancel the toughest border bill ever drafted, by Republicans no less. Not Biden, Trump shot it down in a tantrum. His promises never materialize. He insighted an insurrection and would not return to secret documents, then, when being held accountable for breaking the law, he cries election interference? His appointed judges made a mochery of actual justice, and he skates on obvious crimes. He lies beyond belief? The rest of the free world are scarred to share sensitive info with him. He praises dictators and believes them over US Intel. He lies, and believing him over anything is unbelievable!!? If he wins, you’ll find out! May God Help Us!