5 Highlights From Trump’s Michigan Rally

Former President Donald Trump appeared on Saturday at his first rally since he survived an assassination attempt one week prior.

This campaign event took place in the critical swing state of Michigan and became the first time Trump appeared at a rally with his new running mate Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) following the Republican National Convention.

Below are five highlights from the rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan:

“Bullet for democracy”

The crowd erupted into cheers after Trump rebuffed Democrats who have called him a “threat to democracy.”

He harkened back to the shooting at his rally last weekend in Pennsylvania during which a bullet ripped through his ear.

“They keep saying, ‘he’s a threat to democracy,'” Trump said. “I’m saying, ‘What the hell did I do for democracy?’ Last week, I took a bullet for democracy.”

TRUMP: "They keep saying, 'He's a threat to Democracy.'"

"Last week, I took a bullet for Democracy!"
pic.twitter.com/g0Es9Em0FN

— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) July 20, 2024

Project 2025

In the moments leading up to his quip about democracy, Trump distanced himself from the Heritage Foundation’s “Project 2025” that offers a policy agenda for a conservative administration that reportedly involved people who worked for him.

As previously reported by The Daily Wire, Democrats — including President Joe Biden and his campaign — have sought to link Trump to the project in hopes of painting him as a political extremist.

“I’m a person with great common sense, I’m not an extremist at all,” Trump said. “Like some on the Right — severe Right, came up with this Project 25, and I don’t even know, I mean some of them I know who they are, but they’re very, very conservative.”

CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP

He added, “They’re sort of the opposite of the radical Left, okay? you have the radical Left, and you have the radical Right, and they come up with this pro — I don’t know what the hell it is. ‘It’s Project 25! He’s involved in Project…’ and then they read some of the things, and they are extreme, I mean they’re seriously extreme. I don’t want to know anything about it.”

Trump went on to accuse Democrats of spreading “misinformation and disinformation.”

Trump: I don’t know what the hell it is this Project 25. I don’t know anything about it. I don’t want to know anything about it. pic.twitter.com/A6XqLeQ70R

— Acyn (@Acyn) July 20, 2024

Elon Musk

Trump lauded Elon Musk, who endorsed the former president’s campaign shortly after the shooting last weekend.

“I love Elon Musk,” Trump said before mentioning that he read Musk had committed to giving a new super PAC supporting Trump $45 million a month.

Trump spoke about electric vehicles, which are a big part of Musk’s company Tesla, saying he’s “totally for them, but whatever the market says. And if it’s 10% of the market, 12%, 7%, 20% — whatever it is — it’s okay. But you can’t have 100% electric cars.”

Trump also talked about how he called Musk and said the reusable rockets created by another of the tech billionaire’s companies, SpaceX, were the “coolest thing I’ve ever seen.”

Trump joked about how the government would need several decades to come up with such an innovation. He also said, “We have to make life good for our smart people … and [Musk is] as smart as you get.”

TRUMP: “I love Elon Musk” pic.twitter.com/xFitVckyqd

— ALX ???????? (@alx) July 20, 2024

Pelosi turns on Biden

Trump alluded to reports that former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is among the growing number Democrats who have pressured Biden to consider dropping out of the 2024 race after his poor debate performance a few weeks ago spurred concerns about his age, health, and electability.

“Did you see Nancy Pelosi is selling out Biden now? Did you see? She turned on him like a dog. ‘I don’t know if he should continue’ — all of a sudden. Where did that come from? She was 100%, all of the sudden she’s not sure. ‘Not sure’ means he’s gone,” Trump said.

TRUMP: “Did you see Nancy Pelosi is selling out Biden now? She turned on him like a dog. ‘I don’t know if he should continue’ — Where did that come from? She was 100%, all of the sudden she’s not sure” pic.twitter.com/4134bvazYT

— ALX ???????? (@alx) July 20, 2024

Combover

It wasn’t just his political adversaries who got mocked. Trump won some laughs by poking fun at his own combover.

“I have to just interject, if you would turn off those cameras ’cause I don’t want this, see the screen up there of me?” Trump asked. “That’s very severe, that combover, that’s a severe sucker! What’s with that one? It looks okay from the other side. But that is very severe, I apologize. Man. I looked over, I said whoa. Look at that. Wow. That’s like a work of art.”

A self-deprecating Donald Trump making fun of his own comb-over could be the wild card his campaign needs to secure a landslide. pic.twitter.com/Zoh6o94ZD9

— L A R R Y (@LarryOConnor) July 20, 2024