When he took over as America’s 45th President, they did everything they could to kneecap his administration. He was subjected to a steady stream of media hits and censored. They said he was a Russian asset and launched a special counsel investigation. They unleashed a barrage of lawfare against him and impeached him twice. They tried to keep him off the ballot. And when all that didn’t stop Donald Trump from running for reelection, they tried to kill him, twice.
The travails of the most vilified president in U.S. history were not lost on the A-List of surrogates speaking at his Madison Square Garden rally or the 200,000 supporters who flooded midtown Manhattan, Trump’s home city, for a chance to see him. With early voting already underway for what many called the most consequential election of our time, Trump put it all on the line.
To thunderous applause at a storied arena packed to the rafters, the front-running candidate lit up his rivals and detailed a Make America Great Again agenda he promises will usher in a new “Golden Age.” It was music to the ears of citizens suffering under the crippling inflation, faltering economy, crime wave, and illegal immigration caused by the policies of his rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, who speaker after speaker ridiculed for saying she couldn’t think of a thing she would have done differently from the Biden administration.
You know the Trump campaign was serious when the president’s intro song, Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA,” was sung by the artist himself. Trump’s two sons, Eric and Don, Jr., made passionate appeals to the crowd, as did his wife, Melania, who, the president gushed, has a book at the top of the New York Times Best Seller List. Adding even more heft to the event were Trump’s running mate, Senator J.D. Vance, House Speaker Mike Johnson, America’s Mayor, Rudy Giuliani, Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, Dr. Phil McGraw, Hulk Hogan, UFC President Dana White, primary challenger Vivek Ramaswamy, and Democrats Robert F. Kennedy and Tulsi Gabbard, the former Hawaii Rep who famously left her party because it lurched too far left.
“New York City made Donald Trump, but Donald Trump also made New York City,” Lara Trump, the wife of Eric Trump and co-chair of the National Republican Committee, told the partisan crowd. “He put his heart and soul into this city, and it made him a household name. It truly made him the American Dream.” Making a play for a state that hadn’t seen a GOP presidential candidate succeed since Ronald Reagan, Don Jr. added: “The King of New York is back to reclaim the city that he built.”
A Trump childhood friend, David Rem, told a story about what happened when his dad suddenly passed away in their Queens neighborhood. The family was visited by Trump’s father, who said he was a trustee of the Kew-Forest School, which the two attended. “From this day forward,” Rem said his mom was promised, “I, Fred Trump, out of my own pocket, am going to be paying for your three children’s tuition at Kew-Forest because l don’t want the kids to go back into the public school system.” Holding back tears, Rem wondered: “Now, who would do that except President Trump’s father? And the fruit doesn’t fall far from the tree.”
Trump riveted the crowd when he exclaimed: “Kamala, you destroyed our country, and we’re not going to take it anymore. Kamala, get out of here. You’re fired.” According to the 45th president, the Biden/Harris policies “shattered the Middle Class” and cost the average family $30,000 over the last three years. “If she gets back in,” Trump predicted, “the economy will never recover.”
He reiterated his vow to end the tax on tips, overtime, and Social Security and introduced the “Trump Reciprocal Trade Act,” which would impose the same tariffs that any country charges United States companies. He proposed a tax cut for caregivers and deductions for buying a vehicle made in America, a plan he said already caused China to scrap a huge automotive factory planned in Mexico.
Trump showed videos of illegal immigrant gangs assaulting police officers, taking over apartment complexes, and providing gruesome reminders of “Biden Migrant Crime” that saw the deaths of young girls in communities across the country. He called for the mass deportation of those who crossed the border illegally and promised to push for mandatory 10-year prison sentences for deported aliens who sneak back in. Trump said those killing an American citizen or member of law enforcement should get the death penalty.
The candidate reminded his fans that the United States is sitting on the world’s largest supply of “black gold” and repeated his mantra, “Drill baby, drill.” Tapping the resource would be a huge economic shot in the arm and allow the country to pay down its enormous $35.8 trillion National Debt. It would help save Medicare and Medicaid which he charged Harris would destroy by giving it to the millions of illegal aliens she let into the country as its failed “Border Czar.”
Pointing to the estimated 20 million illegal immigrants let in by Biden and Harris, Trump stated: “The U.S. is now an occupied country, and it will be occupied no longer. November 5 will be Liberation Day.” He pledged to use the Alien Enemies Act of 1789 to begin the biggest deportation in U.S. history, starting with MS13 and Tren de Aragua gang members under “Operation Aurora,” named for the Colorado city that saw apartment buildings taken over by a Venezuelan prison gang. He also pledged to rescue the 325,000 missing immigrant children he said Harris lost under her open border policy.
Attending the rally was Suffolk Assemblyman Joe DeStefano, who said the enthusiasm for Trump “blew me away.” Sharing the GOP ticket with the president on this year’s ballot, the Assemblyman stressed that his MAGA agenda is sorely needed.
“If you want to end the Biden-Harris disaster, you have to get out and vote,” Trump urged. “There’s something happening that’s really good. It’s the biggest political event in the history of our country, the biggest, broadest coalition we’ve ever seen. People want to take back their country.”