President Trump held a campaign-style rally in Duluth, Minn., Wednesday night which hardly deviated from the script he’s been using dating back to the 2016 election.
The president played all of his greatest hits — including “Crooked Hillary,” sending protesters home to “mommy,” and blasting the “fake news media” — but also offered one new line of attack against those who refer to his Democrat and Republican opponents as “elites.”
Trump habitually defends his base of “deplorables,” yet on Wednesday he wondered aloud why his camp is routinely framed as lower class or ignorant, given their success in the 2016 election.
“We’ve made incredible progress together, with your help,” Trump told the crowd. “That’s a movement the likes of which has never been seen before.”
“They’re the smartest people, they work the hardest, they pay taxes, they do all the things, and yet they’re the forgotten people … smarter than anybody and the hardest workers.”
“A little thing I was talking about today, you ever notice they call the other side, ‘the elite.’ The elite?,” he continued. “I have a better apartment than they do. I’m smarter than they are. I’m richer than they are. I became president and they didn’t. And I’m representing the greatest, smartest, best, most loyal people on earth: the deplorables.”
