Secondary travel print note #4: Remarks ended/departure

President Trump took the stage at 18:25 pm to chants of "USA" and "We love you."

He ended at 7:48 pm local time, danced to YMCA and pumped his fist.

Two monitors on either side of the stage listed deadlines for in-person early voting and voter registration in Nebraska, as well as the deadline to request a mail in ballot.

Pool was escorted out at 7:49 pm.

We are rolling to airport at 7:52 pm.

Some highlights — please check quotes against transcript:

During his remarks, Trump attacked Nebraska’s Democratic Senate candidate as a “fake independent” and said he supports a slew of left-leaning policies, such as defunding the police, open borders, and "transgender for everybody."

About midway through his remarks, around 6:55pmlocal time, Trump signed an EO that would ease limits on tax exempt red-dye diesel, asking his aide Natalie Harp to bring the order to the stage so that he could sign it.

He later credited Vice President JD Vance’s anti-fraud efforts, saying that 11,000 Nebraska families were sent $500 checks. He compared Vance to Eliot Ness, the prohibition era federal agent who helped bring down Al Capone.

On the Iran war, he said, "we're going to have that over with” and that the "oil is going to come down lower than it was before.”

He said he was in Iowa just before he made the decision to intervene in Iran:

"I was in Iowa, a state you like, slightly competitive with you, slightly competitive. But I was there just before I decided. I said, I have to, we have to do something. We have to go and stop the threat of having really the world's worst — look, this is a group of people, the absolute worst. We have to stop them from having a nuclear weapon.”

The crowd began chanting "four more years" about ten minutes into his remarks, and he asked them to “pretend" that he is running. “We've driven them crazy. They're sick individuals Trump deranged,” he said. "And now we're on the cusp of beating the communist, socialist, radicalized lunatics and villains once and for all.”

Trump drew loud applause when he said Nebraska would defeat the “radical left" Democrats in 29 days, and when he praised the U.S. Navy and military.

Trump acknowledged the challenging midterm environment for Republicans, warning that Democrats "can take all this stuff that we gave you— the biggest tax cuts in history, a great border, the best border we've ever had. All the things that we did."

Towards the end of his remarks, he said: "The fake news media is trying to demoralize Republican voters with rigged polls."

He reminded Nebraska voters that early voting is underway and directed them to "Swampthevote.com/“

He alluded to an interview on Fox News today with Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan, saying "El-Sayed was interviewed just a little while ago on a certain network. I won't tell you which way they let this guy talk, talk, talk. They hardly fight him at all. Why are they putting these people on our television networks?"

Mentioning Kamala Harris’s use of the phrase “too big to rig” during a recent campaign event in Michigan, Trump said that Republicans need to do the same and ribbed her for taking his line: “We want to make it, as Kamala would say — did you hear her the other day, Kamala, she said, we have to bring the election too big to rig. Oh no, she stole my line. She got killed even by the Democrats on that one.”

He said that record numbers of oil barrels were coming out of the Strait of Hormuz right now thanks to U.S. missile defense systems: “We're bringing in ship after ship. Everyone said, well, they throw a little missile, we go, ‘Bing.' That's the missile. We knock it off. And I say, how cool is that? You know, the missile is coming. Missile is coming, missile is gone. That's it. And the ships just keep sailing.”

He talked about penalties for people attempting to fix tractors or other machinery: "Can you imagine? They come on to your farm. What are you doing, sir? I'm fixing my tractor went off. Sir, come with me. We're putting you in jail.”

He called the Michigan and Texas Democratic Senate candidates “lunatics."

During his remarks he touched on the quick victory in Venezuela, among other frequent points, including how “we’re not allowed to ask” if voters are a citizen of the country, and on men playing in women’s sports, and investments in the U.S. “going into factories” have totaled $21 trillion since his reelection.

He said investment in Nebraska was surging, including through a $2 billion Niocorp mine and Becton Dickinson pharmaceutical plant expansion, part of a $3 billion investment by the company to bring manufacturing back to the U.S.

Trump repeated his promise to give voters $5,000 checks to spend in the U.S. if Republicans win in November. If Democrats win, he said there would be a “1929-style economic depression.”

He called U.S. Senator Pete Ricketts up at about 7:30 pm local time.

Press traveling on AF1:

ABC as radio pool, Bloomberg, CBS as tv pool, Washington Post, Washington Sun and OAN.

Stills: AP, Reuters, Getty, the New York Times and AFP.

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Katherine Doyle

The Washington Post