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On Sunday night, MSNBC's banner claimed “Breaking News.” “Mr. Trump's MSG rally will be the first in 85 years since a pro-Nazi rally in this famous arena,” the far-left network's breathtaking report said, accompanied by swastika armbands and a solid salute. , which featured gruesome black-and-white footage of the infamous German-American band's National Socialist rally.
MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart said, referring to President Trump's sold-out event at Madison Square Garden, “But that jamboree that's happening right now in that place is especially chilling when you see it on screen.'' Because in 1939, over 20,000 people participated.” Supporters of another fascist leader, Adolf Hitler, packed into the garden for a so-called pro-American rally, a rally in which anti-Semitic rhetoric was delivered from a stage draped with a Nazi flag. '' Capehart explained that when Jewish protesters stormed the stage, American stormtroopers tore his clothes off and beat him while he was holding his head in his arms.
scared! But more than that, this is disgusting, vile garbage. And, fortunately, it's also spectacularly inaccurate.
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Nazi rallies were held in the old Madison Square Garden at Eighth Avenue and West 49th Street, now home to the Worldwide Plaza office and retail complex. Mr. Trump and his supporters were not “in that place,” as MSNBC falsely claimed.
Former President Donald Trump and former first lady Melania Trump during a campaign event at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, October 27, 2024 in New York. (Adam Gray/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
In fact, President Trump's extravaganza began hosting events in 1968 at a venue located one mile south at Eighth Avenue and West 33rd Street. In the same year, the old MSG was demolished and turned into a parking lot. Not only was the MAGA nation not in a land as defiled as the pre-World War II Hitler festival. The facility in question had not existed for 56 years.
The entire premise of MSNBC hyperventilating and hating Hillary Clinton and others collapsed like an arena being hit with a wrecking ball. Unfortunately, these Trump haters didn't spend five minutes on the Google machine learning about the three incarnations of MSG, the first two of which were destroyed. Maybe drowning Trump in archival footage of swastika flags is too important to engage in high school essay-level fact-checking.
The whole big lie of the left's Nuremberg-Hudson River Rally is not just a fatal flaw in the schedule.
Mr. Trump's event, which I was happy and proud to attend, bears no resemblance to the 1939 event, when the left tainted itself with fear.
What I saw was not ferocious American shock troops, but thousands of calm, cheerful men, women, and children lined up from the middle of West 33rd Street and heading north around 1 Penn Plaza. It circled around, then east, all the way to the middle of West 34th Street. They waited peacefully and patriotically in the cool autumn breeze to enter MSG.
Once inside, as far as I could tell, not a single Jew was dragged off the stage and forced into submission. On the other side, Trump's adviser Stephen Miller, Trump's friend and golf partner Stephen Witkoff, and Cantor Fitzgerald head Howard Lutnick were welcomed to the stage. These Jewish gentlemen gave Trump warm and passionate words of support.
The audience, filling every row to the top aisle behind the podium, cheered and applauded these speakers with overwhelming enthusiasm. Miller, Witkoff and Lutnick were allowed to leave the stage. All three were properly dressed and none showed any signs of physical assault or trauma.
In an even more dramatic departure from Nazism, Republican Florida Rep. Byron Donald and Death Row Records co-founder Michael “Harry O” Harris address the crowd wearing red hats. did. These two black men also supported Trump, much to the satisfaction of the mega MAGA faithful.
Participants hold signs during a campaign event for former President Donald Trump (not pictured) at Madison Square Garden in New York on Sunday, October 27, 2024. Photographer: Adam Gray /Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The occasion also featured the characteristically fierce and eloquent words of former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, a Hindu with a distinct lack of blonde hair and blue eyes. Mr. Ramaswamy (like Mr. Miller) moved the audience with his moving defense of Mr. Trump and his policies.
The youngest major presidential candidate in living memory also agrees with Trump and his supporters that there is no place for men or boys in women's or girls' sports and that gender transition should be limited to 2020. As long as gay Americans are welcome in the MAGA tent, he said. grown ups. “Same-sex marriage is fine, but keep your hands off the kids!” is a MAGA doctrine that has wide appeal across ideological spectrums.
The event felt like a one-day Republican National Convention. The excitement, energy and camaraderie reminded me of the quadrennial nominating event. The speakers were also of that level. They include former congresswoman and recent Republican convert Tulsi Gabbard, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana), Hulk Hogan, Eric Trump and Lara Trump.
Another son of a Republican candidate was appalled by the impact inflation had on his family's recent fast-food restaurant. “If Donald Trump Jr. causes sticker shock at McDonald's, we're in serious trouble for our country.”
Political commentator Tucker Carlson noted the surreal nature of the event. “The day after Bobby Kennedy Jr. attended Donald Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden…yes, that's totally normal!”
Amid speeches and excerpts from classic rock songs like “Sweet Home Alabama” and “Sweet Child of Mine,” the campaign featured multiple new slogans on screens, videos and hallway displays. Many are four words long, like “Make America Great Again.” They are simple as cavemen, but direct, forceful, convincing, and manly.
“It's easier to live under Trump” “Dream big again” “Don't tax overtime” “Make America strong again”
And my favorite:
Former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at a campaign rally for former president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at Madison Square Garden in New York on October 27, 2024. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/ AFP via Getty Images)
Melania Trump made a surprise appearance to introduce her husband. When Donald J. Trump finally took the stage to deafening cheers, Lee Greenwood performed a live rendition of “I'm Proud to Be an American” for the once and perhaps future first couple. was unveiled.
Trump himself spoke positively and optimistically of November 5th as “Emancipation Day'', announcing massive tax cuts, deregulation, energy liberation, efforts by Elon Musk and Howard Lutnick to slash the federal budget, and tariffs. , promised an attractive combination of leading the Golden Rule trade. (When it comes to international commerce, do with other countries what you would do with us). I call this supply-side protectionism. I like the first part better than the second part. If anyone can unite these two seemingly contradictory approaches, it's none other than Donald J. Trump.
Instead of the thousand-year Reich that Hitler promised Germany, Trump spoke warmly of a “new golden age.”
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Political commentator Tucker Carlson noted the surreal nature of the event. “The day after Bobby Kennedy Jr. attended Donald Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden…yes, that's totally normal!”
The only off-putting topic at the event was comedian Tony Hinchcliffe's comment about Puerto Rico, an island made of garbage floating in the middle of the ocean. He was the first speaker of the day and appeared when MSG was about half full. The rest of his set was funny, but the line drew few laughs, instead depicting something between silence and groans. Trump and his campaign have distanced themselves from these comments.
It is a great shame that Hinchcliffe is such a pernicious distraction from what is otherwise a bright and unusual event in modern politics. And Adolf Hitler would have hated all of it.
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