Trump Tells Kentucky Rally 'I Can Do Stuff That Is Unbelievable' as GOP Struggles
At a Highland Heights stop to boost Republican turnout, the president touted his second-term power, repeated a $5,000-per-adult promise and said the Iran war will end soon.
President Trump touted the power of his second term while rallying in Kentucky on Saturday, telling the crowd, "I can do stuff that is unbelievable," as his party struggles heading into the midterm elections.
Speaking in Highland Heights to boost Republican candidates, including Ed Gallrein for the U.S. House, Mr. Trump riffed on his decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. "I don't think I could have done this in my first term. This is a much more powerful term," he said. "Google wouldn't have taken my call in the first. Now, they kiss my ass." He added that he had also "changed the name of a lake in Canada to the Lake America," a reference to Lake Ontario.
The boast landed against voter frustration over how he has used that power. Tariffs and the Iran war have driven up prices, and more Americans say the president looks out for his own interests rather than the country's. With control of both chambers of Congress at stake, and with it the prospect of Democratic-led investigations of his administration, Mr. Trump has put himself at the center of the campaign even as Republicans privately worry he is a liability.
CBS News noted the backdrop to the president's pitch: he nominated one of his personal lawyers to serve as attorney general, ordered military strikes on accused drug-smuggling boats, is trying to put his name on the Kennedy Center, and has enriched himself and his family while in office.
The president wandered through topics on stage. On gas prices, he said the war with Iran would end soon and that prices would fall below where they were before. It is an assertion he has made many times over the nearly eight-month conflict. The crowd cheered.
He also rehashed his promise that if Republicans win the House and the Senate, every adult American would get $5,000. That would most likely cost more than $1 trillion and require congressional approval, and it would add to a deficit of nearly $1.8 trillion a year. At the rally, Mr. Trump added a new conditional promise for Kentucky: if Republicans win, he said, the Department of Defense would invest in revitalizing a drug manufacturing facility in the state.
Gallrein, a former Navy SEAL, is Mr. Trump's pick in the district and beat Rep. Thomas Massie in the May Republican primary. The Saturday stop was one of several Mr. Trump has made this month as Republicans try to hold their majorities.
