at spite of the 104 degree heat on Sunday, former President Donald Trump focused his rally on endurance at a Las Vegas park.
A Las Vegas Metro police crowd estimate put the attendance at about 6,900. According to a representative for the LVMPD, six people were sent to the hospital due to heat-related illnesses.
Speaking two days before the Nevada primary, Trump withheld his endorsement from any candidate in the Republican contest for the U.S. Senate, wherein Army veteran Sam Brown and the former ambassador of the United States to Iceland, Jeff Gunter, had hoped to be selected.
Ending tip taxes is one of Trump’s new proposals, which he stated he had never made public before but that would be one of his top objectives. This proposal is likely to be successful in Nevada as the state’s casino and entertainment industries rely heavily on gratuities.
The promise on tips rounds out a Trump tax package that had featured nebulous promises of tax breaks for small firms and middle-class workers.
“So this is the first time I’ve said this, and for those hotel workers and people that get tips you’re going to be very happy because when I get to office, we are going to not charge taxes on tips people (are) making,” Trump stated to a large audience.
Trump promised to “do that right away, first thing in office,” adding in prepared remarks that he would approach Congress to enact legislation implementing the measure. “You do a great job of service, you take care of people and I think it’s going to be something that really is deserved.”
The Republican-passed individual tax cuts, which he signed into law in 2017 but which expire at the end of 2025, are something he has previously promised to extend permanently. According to tax experts, compared to present projections, doing so would increase U.S. deficits by almost $4 trillion over a ten-year period.
Technical difficulties during rally
There were reports of ongoing issues with his teleprompter, and he swore he would not be paying the company that made it.
“I don’t pay contractors who do (expletive) work,” Trump stated.
The absence of prepared words allowed for a more conversational address in which he frequently asked questions of the audience akin to a stand-up comedian, such as which moniker for Joe Biden was more fitting—”Sleepy Joe” or “Crooked Joe”?—and if there should be a consensus on the choice of vice presidential running mate.
He got off topic once and asked if he would rather be electrocuted or eaten by a shark.
Trump declared, “I’ll take electrocution every time.”
Jesus Christ, Jack Smith, and Viktor OrbaŁn were all named at the rally.
Throughout his hour-long speech, Trump listed a number of well-known individuals who he believed to be foolish.
Jack Smith, the special counsel in charge of criminal investigations into Trump’s conduct concerning the Capitol incident on January 6 and his handling of secret documents, was one of them.
Trump remarked, “He’s a dumb son of a bitch.”
However, he lauded “the great Victor Orbán,” the authoritarian leader of Hungary, citing him as saying that electing Trump is the only way the world can be saved…
Democratic policies and Biden, according to Trump, are so absurd that “the only way they can beat us is to cheat.”
Owing to this, he implored everyone to cast a ballot in November with a turnout that is “too big to rig,” a sentiment echoed by other speakers who spoke before him in the Sunset Park dirt field.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of the United States was one. She made a comparison between Jesus Christ and the former president, who was recently found guilty of 34 felonies by a jury in New York.
She declared, “The one I worship was crucified on a Roman cross and was a convicted felon as well.”