Trump leads Vegas rally in crowd chant in searing heat: Live updates

Donald Trump ended his Las Vegas rally by warning the crowd that the world was closer to “World War III” than “ever before,” and said it would not be “World War II tanks and planes” fighting, but nuclear weapons being exchanged.

He also said the weapons possessed “never before seen” levels of power, apparently forgetting that the US dropped nuclear weapons on Japan at the end of World War II in 1945.

After his grave warning he thanked all the “celebrities” — Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, essentially — who attended his rally.

Donald Trump claims that in his first day, if elected president, he’s going to lock down the border, “drill baby drill” and drop energy prices “in half.”

He then claimed that Russia would not have invaded Ukraine if he was president, and that Hamas would not have lauched its 7 October attack if he was president.

Donald Trump called Capitol riot convicts “J6 hostages” and “J6 warriors,” and says “all they were doing was protesting a rigged election,” and pushed the conspiracy theory that police encouraged the rioters to enter the Capitol.

Mr Trump then claimed, without evidence, that Joe Biden and the Justice Department were “going after Catholics” and Christians.

Donald Trump said there would be “no drug problem” in the US if drug dealer convictions were punished with the death penalty.

He said that the US was likely “not ready for it,” and said he would adopt the death penalty for drug offenses “in a second.”

Trump thens aid he discussed drug issues with Chinese President Xi Jinping, and praised China for having “quick trials,” that ended with death sentences, after which he was distracted by a nice breeze.

Donald Trump, while railing against electric vehicles, brought up that there have been “a lot of shark attacks recently,” which is not true, and complained that someone defended sharks.

He then came back to electric boats, and questioned whether or not an electric boat would electrify the water if it sank, and also questioned what would happend if a shark was near it while it sank.

“I’ll take electrocution every single time, I’m not getting near a shark,” he said.

He also claimed, erroneously, that every bridge in America would need to be rebuilt if electric vehicles became the norm because of their weight.

Trump then jarringly began talking about trans athletes after his electric vehicle rant.

Donald Trump’s latest rant against immigrants and asylum-seekers labeled people who traveled hundreds if not thousands of miles to reach the US as lazy, while the former president spurred his crowd into chanting “bulls***!” in response to Joe Biden’s efforts to address border security.

The ex-president spoke in Las Vegas on Sunday afternoon and railed against an executive order Biden signed this past week to address illegal border crossings. The order, signed by the president on Tuesday, allows the president to freeze the US asylum application system if illegal border crossings are occurring at an average rate of more than 2,500 per day.

“Last week, crooked Joe signed an executive order that is pro invasion, pro child trafficking, pro woman trafficking, pro human trafficking and pro drug dealers. It’s a pro drug dealer bill,” Trump said about the order, which is not a bill.

Donald Trump brags that his campaign took in “hundreds of millions of dollars” after his hush money trial conviction.

He also said his poll numbers were up following the trial.

“Too big to rig, that’s what we want, too big to rig,” he said.

He then called Joe Biden a “corrupt, very dumb person” and a “low IQ individual,” and insisted 30 years ago Biden was considered the “dumbest person in the Senate,” which he said was told to him by Ted Kennedy.

Donald Trump addressed the various stories noting how many times he has refused to pay contractors he has worked with.

Trump said he doesn’t pay contractors who do “s***** work,” which is not how a contract works. He did not refute the claims made by the stories, but simply justified his actions.

He then complained about his microphone being too quiet and insisted the 2020 election was stolen from him, despite all evidence to the contrary.

Donald Trump says under his administration he won’t tax restaurant workers’ tips, which — if true — would allow greater takehome pay for workers.

He said if he did that the “woke stuff” would be gone “in 24 hours,” which implies that most progressives in the US are service industry workers who can be bought off with a tax cut.