Donald Trump’s rally in South Carolina ended in significant embarrassment and public disapproval, highlighting the deepening crisis within the Republican Party. Fox News, traditionally aligned with Trump, now labels the South Carolina Senate race as a toss-up—an unprecedented shift in a deeply Republican state. The rally featured glaring errors, including a mathematically flawed approval rating claim (42% misrepresented as 104%) and a confusing, incoherent statement about a North Carolina hurricane. Trump attempted to deflect criticism by attacking pollsters and demanding investigations into negative polling, including Fox News, which many view as an admission of weakness. His racist remarks, dismissing countries like Mexico and Africa as “blank hole countries,” further exposed the bigotry at the heart of his messaging. Additionally, his proposal to rename a strait after himself and his constant focus on physical appearance of male golfers were seen as absurd and out of touch. Most telling, the crowd visibly disengaged, with many walking out as he attempted to leave, signaling a loss of public trust. These events underscore a broader decline in Trump’s credibility and support, particularly as midterm elections approach and voter concerns grow over economic conditions, corruption, and political extremism.
So Donald Trump had a rally in South Carolina this morning, and if I had to sum it up briefly for you folks,
it would be more protesters, more embarrassing moments, and more bad news for Donald Trump and the Republicans.
Not only was he on stage making an utter fool of himself, but what took place before the rally and during the rally
really goes to show you the terrible position that Republicans find themselves in going into the upcoming midterm election.
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Let's start with the bad news that Donald Trump got during the rally, before the rally,
and this is the fact that Fox News has shifted the South Carolina Senate election from lean Republican to toss-up.
So two major things. Number one, this is Fox News saying that.
Fox News, essentially an arm of the Trump operation, saying that the South Carolina Senate seat is now a toss-up.
It could go either way.
It's just remarkable.
And number two, South Carolina is a very Republican state.
A Republican governor, Republican attorney general, Republican senators, Republican members of house, the state house, the state Senate, all very Republican.
So the fact that a state like that is kind of 50/50, a toss-up, could go either way.
Democrats could win if turnout is good.
I mean, that is crazy to think about.
That's how badly Donald Trump has done.
And look, we may still lose the seat.
I'd still say it's likely that Republicans win there just because of everything we know about.
We're talking about South Carolina.
But the fact that Fox News and others are saying it's a 50/50 shot, pretty crazy.
And it's because of things like this.
Fox News actually interviewed a man at the Trump rally before it began, thinking that he was a Trump supporter and it completely backfired on them.
They just don't believe that anybody out there doesn't like Donald Trump.
But it's kind of hitting them in the face in real time.
Watch this.
You mentioned the rally being started here in Rock Hill.
We got Tom right here, kind enough to answer a few questions.
Tom, why are you here this morning?
Well, in the late 70s, I was a little too young to get involved and go to South America for the Jonestown massacre.
But this is as close as I'll ever get.
So that's why I'm here.
Wait, the Jonestown massacre?
That's right.
Nothing like being a cult right up front, man.
All right.
Maybe this is not a Trump supporter right now.
It's OK.
I love that guy. That's an American patriot.
That's a man at a Trump rally saying that what you're looking at,
what he's witnessing right there is a cult that we're all seeing it.
And it's just so funny how Fox News has done a number of these interviews.
They're going up to people who look like Republicans.
They think they're Republicans just for them to get trolled or have it backfire like this.
The Republican host had no idea what was going on.
And I just think it's so funny, man. I really do.
So I want to move on to the actual rally, though.
When Donald Trump got started, soon into the rally, by the way,
a protester was kicked out and the camera panned showing not only was this
protester being removed, but also a decent amount of empty seats near the front
of the stage, which, again,
not something you want to see given how close we are to the midterms and given
how close the venue or excuse me, how small the venue is.
It stood for 19 years.
Go home to mom. Kind of embarrassing for Donald Trump.
So not only, as I've said on the show before,
these protesters are really American patriots, they're American heroes,
people doing civic duty, going to these rallies and telling Donald Trump to go F
himself, that's like the most American thing you can do.
Standing up to a wannabe dictator, going back to, you know, the revolution.
Right. But look at all these empty seats.
Look at all these empty seats, not just this right here,
but you can kind of see if you slow the video down that there are empty seats even
earlier in the crowd as well. And there's empty seats there.
There's empty. I mean, the crowd.
It's kind of weird from this angle.
It's a weird angle, but it's pretty sparse.
And even there, look at this row of empty seats.
So quite the backfire for Donald Trump and Republicans.
They kicked him out, but they got that in return.
And then another protester got up and got
involved and made their voice heard against Donald Trump.
And he's been giving this excuse for why he's been getting protested recently.
He's been calling them paid and saying that they need to go home to mom,
which I don't I don't understand why that's the response.
But Trump and the Republicans can't possibly fathom that people are upset with the state of the economy.
The fact that he's covering up the Epstein files,
the rampant corruption taking place in the Oval Office.
And so they just say, oh, you're paid to be here.
Here we go. Paid protester.
Paid protester.
They pop up every once in a while.
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Now, they're all trained, paid.
They don't do a good job, but they always trained and paid.
They don't do a good job, though.
Well, clearly they do a good job because
they piss you off and they piss your crowd off.
And the idea is to annoy you, to get at you because you've done so many bad things
for this country. So clearly they're doing a pretty decent job at that as well.
But yeah, he's just oblivious to how Americans
feel about him. And on that point, he goes on to try to attempt some basic math.
And that's never been his strong suit.
So listen to this, him talking about his
approval rating while getting protested throughout this rally.
Look at this.
Have a full of it.
Donald Trump, Donald Trump is at forty two percent.
Forty two percent.
You mean times two and add twenty.
Boy, they are bad.
They're sick people. Fake polls.
OK, so number one, his approval rating is
actually not forty two percent. I agree with him.
It's not forty two percent. It's thirty two percent.
So just to be clear, that's actually what
his approval rating is, according to most polls these days.
But also the math here is just off.
He says forty two percent times two.
So we're up to eighty four.
So eighty four percent. Then add an additional twenty.
So Donald Trump believes that his
approval rating in the United States is one hundred and four percent.
You know, intelligence has never been his thing.
It just really hasn't been.
Then his brain started melting on stage.
He was speaking about the hurricane that
impacted North Carolina, Hurricane Haleen and whatnot.
And by the way, he's in South Carolina.
So nonetheless, he starts talking about North Carolina politicians as well.
He starts talking about the hurricane and he calls it a water cane and then just
completely butchered the last half of his sentence.
Roy Cooper went during the hurricane,
which was a water cane because it would have more water than anybody.
It was the worst.
He did such a bad job.
So just couldn't get the sentence out, but he calls it
a water cane and Donald Trump has said stuff like this previously before as well.
Like he has said that this hurricane was
the worst hit hurricane from the standpoint of water.
And I guess I'm just confused as to what the alternative is.
Like what other
would there not be water from the sky in a hurricane?
Would it be like hot sauce or ketchup?
Like, what do you what are you talking about?
You know, he's just he's just dumb. He's just dumb.
He also goes on to, again,
continue to talk about North Carolina while campaigning in South Carolina.
And he's essentially.
Given up on the Republican candidate in North Carolina.
His name is Michael Watley, and he's like, he should win.
But, you know, what are you going to do about it?
Next, Senator Michael Watley.
I cannot believe I thought when I heard that story.
I'll tell you, Henry, when I heard that story, I said Watley is going to win.
And Watley should win.
He's he's phenomenal.
But what are you going to do?
I hope he's just he's given up.
That's maybe why he isn't going as hard on North Carolina in terms of campaigning and
resources going to them as he is for other states.
He's just kind of like resigned to defeat.
And which is really remarkable, you know, when you when you remember the fact
that Donald Trump has won North Carolina three times, three times in a row.
When he's been on the ballot, he won the state of North Carolina.
And now it's a state that he's essentially just given up on.
His candidate is not going to win.
And that's the belief of Donald Trump.
That's the belief of the polls.
Obviously, that is not a given.
So you still got to get out there and vote, of course.
But Donald Trump seems to not be very confident about what to take.
Taking place in North Carolina.
And I don't know why he would be given the numbers.
We're getting polls from North Carolina.
And let me show you this right here.
North Carolina, likely voters, the Democratic Party candidate,
Roy Cooper, fantastic former governor of the state, sitting at fifty four percent.
Michael Whatley, the Republican candidate, is sitting at 40 percent.
Now, I don't think the margin is actually going to be 14 percent.
That'd be great.
It's probably going to be tighter, which means you still have to get out there
and vote. But nonetheless, the polls are not looking good for Donald Trump.
And the Republicans, he then goes on to
call for an investigation into negative polls.
So Alan Wilson, the attorney general of the state of South Carolina.
Donald Trump wants him to dedicate
investigative resources not to fighting crime, but investigating polls.
Nice one, guys. Nice one.
And does that include Fox News?
Is Donald Trump calling for Fox News to be investigated?
I just have to know the answer to that question.
Are we there yet? You know, I don't know.
Watch this. I see these polls
and I believe they don't.
I believe they're almost all look, I mean, I think McLaughlin's
a good poll. I think Fabrizio is a good poll.
But for the most part, I'll bet.
you that, you know, we have sent a thousand pollsters all over the country. I'll bet you
some guy says that, bills the poor suckers like the Democrat or Republican Party, and they bill
them a million. That poll will cost two million. We have pollsters all over the country, and there
are none. It's a guy sitting at his desk with a big bank account. That'll cost one million dollars.
We have pollsters, and I don't even believe they send out pollsters, okay? I think Henry McMaster,
you should do an immediate investigation. Oh, no, you got the best guy, Alan. Alan Wilson,
please do an investigation. I guarantee you. No, I don't. And then they say, all right,
that'll be a million dollars. You know what they do? They sit behind the desk. All right,
I'm doing a poll on Trump's popularity. Let's see. All right, let's make him.
I don't need, I, you know, I just don't want to hear him speak anymore. You know what I mean?
I'm going to cut the clip early because he is sounding like crap. Transparently, he's sounding
like crap. He's not going to do anything. He is slurring his words. He's all over the place. But, you know, he's focused on the real
issues, folks, which is investigating bad polls for him. Nice one, Donald. You're really laser
focused on what matters to people. He then goes on to engage in his racism, which he's been doing
quite frequently throughout the 2026 midterms, especially with a focus on Michigan and Abdul
El-Sayed. But this time he says, you know, how come we take people from these blank countries?
And so just watch this. And I said, how come we always take people from shithouse countries?
Why can't we take?
We take people from good countries. And he said, well, it's all. And it was supposed to be very,
very private meeting. You know, we're going to try and work on a little immigration stuff.
And they left and had a news conference. They said Trump used that.
Now, Donald Trump, the reason I include this clip is because it is really gross because Donald
Trump has made it clear what he believes are the blank hole countries, or in this case, the blank
house countries and countries that we actually want people from. So he's talked about like Denmark,
Sweden, Finland,
kind of countries in the Nordic region that he wants people coming from, but Southern American
countries or Mexico, he has called them or African countries. He has called them blank hole countries.
And what, what's interesting about this country, you know, Nordic countries, primarily white,
overwhelmingly white. He has no problem with immigrants from those countries. He's never
really taken objection to immigrants coming from Canada. But if you're from a Southern American
country, if you're from an African country or country where your skin is not predominantly white,
then Donald Trump says, well, you're a blank hole country.
Which means we don't want you. It's racism. That's the center of his immigration policy
and the center of when he says stuff like this. I do think it's important to call that stuff out
and I will continue to call that stuff out. Then he gets back into the stupidity of it all.
And he is campaigning on once again, renaming the Trump straight, renaming the straight of
Hormuz to the Trump straight. And that's like a big campaign message for him. Watch this.
The Lake America. So we have a Gulf and we have a lake. Now I need an ocean and a river. So
and maybe a straight. I'm thinking about calling the Hormuz straight, the Trump straight. I'm going
to take. You know, the biggest problem I have with this clip, and we've talked about this on
the show before when he said this is not necessarily that he's saying it because
I expect it from him. Right. He said this many times before. It's stupid. And we expect
stupidity from Donald Trump. It's the fact that his crowds are clapping. And it's not like we
don't expect stupidity from Donald Trump. And it's not
stupidity from them, too, to be clear. But like, what are you clapping for? Why? Why are you getting
rowdy and enthusiastic? Because the president of the United States wants to rename bodies of water
and rivers after him. Isn't that embarrassed? Like, aren't you embarrassed when you clap for
something like that? Like this is a major campaign proposal coming from the president
of the United States and you're enthusiastic about it. You have to be embarrassed a little
bit. Maybe not. I guess they have no shame. Donald Trump then goes on to say that he is also making
an effort to make sure that people's lives love their husbands again. Apparently,
that's the Trump effect on the country. Before you do pick up your 401k, take a look at it
and you'll see it's up numbers. If it's your wife looking at it. I've had wives tell me that
they love their husband again. They thought they consider him a great, great investor.
My husband is a great investor. He's up 67 percent. That's me that did it.
Oh, man, it's just so crazy, isn't it? It's just like, God, does he ever shut up
and stop saying stupid things like that? You know how so embarrassing. He then goes on to bring
a group of men on the stage, a group of golfers. And he says, if they can play as good as they
look, they're going to win a lot of tournaments. Donald Trump, once again, just complimenting men
on their physical appearance. He continues to do it.
Well, if they can play as good as they look, they're going to win a lot of tournaments.
Good looking people.
I have no idea. First of all, you know what caught my eye during this?
This woman down here seeming, look at this person. She seems very, I know it's grainy. The quality is
not great, but she seems very into it. The one with the pink. What are you so excited about?
Anyway, Donald Trump continuing to compliment men on their physical appearance has become like
a center of his campaigning. This is like prime messaging. You know, every campaign now,
he's never really talking about his, well, there is no plan to focus on affordability. He's
not talking about that. He's not talking about lowering gas prices, not talking about things
that matter. He's talking about how attracted he is to different men. And I've, I've said before,
love is love. If you're discovering something about yourself late in life, Donald Trump,
then that's perfectly okay. You do you, but why are you making it part of your campaign?
Donald Trump then to conclude the video here, tried to do his gimmick where he pretends to be
leaving the venue, but the crowd is supposed to say, no, no, no, come back. But they actually
started leaving. Like even they were kind of done with him. Just watch this.
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, I'm leaving.
Vote for that lady.
No, it's a hell of a way to end.
No, I could, I could end it, but the, so the rest is, the rest is just, but, but no,
the people started to leave. That's all right. You can come back, don't. No, I did it.
Oh, even, you know, all the people behind him stood up. They were like, yes, time to go.
People started walking out. I would walk out. I wouldn't be there in the first place,
but you know, if I had to be in the, at a Trump rally, which I really rather be literally anywhere
else, um, I'd get out of there. Right. Anyway, look, I will leave the video there. I just wanted
to cover some of this bad news for Donald Trump, the South Carolina election being shifted. This
Fox news reporter hearing from a alleged Trump supporter and getting embarrassed while doing it.
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Podcast Summary
Key Points:
Fox News has reclassified the South Carolina Senate race as a toss-up, a dramatic shift in a traditionally Republican state.
The rally was marred by empty seats, protester confrontations, and disorganized crowd behavior, signaling declining support for Trump.
Trump was ridiculed for misstating his approval rating—claiming 104%—and making a baffling, incoherent comment about a hurricane in North Carolina.
Trump mocked pollsters and called for an investigation into negative polling data, including Fox News, reflecting deep distrust in the media.
He openly expressed racist views by labeling countries like Mexico and Africa as “blank hole countries,” contradicting his support for Nordic immigrants.
Trump proposed renaming the Hormuz Strait to the “Trump Straight,” a campaign move widely seen as absurd and out of touch.
A recurring theme is his focus on physical appearance, praising male golfers, which critics argue trivializes serious policy issues.
The crowd visibly disengaged, with many leaving during his exit routine, suggesting widespread disillusionment with his campaign.
Summary:
Donald Trump’s rally in South Carolina ended in significant embarrassment and public disapproval, highlighting the deepening crisis within the Republican Party. Fox News, traditionally aligned with Trump, now labels the South Carolina Senate race as a toss-up—an unprecedented shift in a deeply Republican state. The rally featured glaring errors, including a mathematically flawed approval rating claim (42% misrepresented as 104%) and a confusing, incoherent statement about a North Carolina hurricane.
Trump attempted to deflect criticism by attacking pollsters and demanding investigations into negative polling, including Fox News, which many view as an admission of weakness. His racist remarks, dismissing countries like Mexico and Africa as “blank hole countries,” further exposed the bigotry at the heart of his messaging. Additionally, his proposal to rename a strait after himself and his constant focus on physical appearance of male golfers were seen as absurd and out of touch.
Most telling, the crowd visibly disengaged, with many walking out as he attempted to leave, signaling a loss of public trust. These events underscore a broader decline in Trump’s credibility and support, particularly as midterm elections approach and voter concerns grow over economic conditions, corruption, and political extremism.
FAQs
Fox News has shifted the South Carolina Senate election from a lean Republican race to a toss-up, indicating a significant change in the political landscape. This is surprising given South Carolina's historically strong Republican leanings.
A protester was kicked out, and there were visible empty seats in the front row, signaling low turnout and disengagement. These moments highlighted the growing unpopularity of Trump among voters.
Yes, he incorrectly claimed his approval rating was 104% by doubling 42% and adding 20%. In reality, his approval rating is around 32%, and the math was clearly erroneous.
He dismissed polling data and called for an investigation into negative polls, suggesting that pollsters were biased or unqualified, which many view as a sign of political desperation.
Trump referred to countries like Mexico and Africa as 'blank hole countries,' expressing a preference for immigrants from Nordic countries like Denmark, Sweden, and Finland, which he described as 'good' nations.
He proposed renaming the Hormuz Strait the 'Trump Straight,' a move criticized as absurd and out of touch with serious policy issues.
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