Trump tells a Tennessee crowd he won the election 3 separate times, and makes an admission: ‘I could say the stupidest things and you’d clap’

President Donald Trump addressed supporters at an event in Tennessee on Saturday. During the remarks, he told the audience that he had won the presidential election on three separate occasions and expressed appreciation for those who had backed him.

He pointed out that Sen. Bill Hagerty was performing strongly in the U.S. Senate race and that Sen. Marsha Blackburn was doing well in her bid for governor. Trump then asked the crowd why he was in the state at all given those circumstances.

He also spoke about the reaction he gets from audiences and made a direct admission. Trump said, “I could say the stupidest things and you’d clap,” according to Mediaite.

Trump recounts a friend’s question about public speaking and describes the atmosphere

Trump shared a conversation he had with a friend who experiences stage fright. The friend asked how Trump is able to appear in front of large groups of people day after day. Trump often tells crowds the polls are wrong, as when he asked an Ohio rally crowd to pretend he was on the ballot.

According to Trump, he replied that it feels easy because of the love present in the rooms. The audience responded with cheers and applause, then broke into chants of “Trump, Trump, Trump!” The same kind of crowd energy has followed Trump to other stops, such as when his rally in San Antonio for Ken Paxton was interrupted six times, and supporters shouted ‘We Love You Daddy Trump.’

He thanked the crowd and stated again that the love is genuine. At that point, someone yelled out, “We love you!”

Trump described the experience of standing in front of supporters in that setting. He said, “It’s like, like, I mean, it’s amazing. When you stand up here, it’s just like, the love.” He repeated the observation about the applause and added, “Oh, I love you so – It’s true.”

He went on to clarify that the remarks themselves are not the stupidest things. Trump said, “we say things of common sense. We say things that make sense, and probably are mostly conservative. But it’s not really conservative, it’s the things of common sense.”

He then named several of those priorities. Trump said, “We want to have a border, we want to have low taxes, we want to have a great military. We want to have, you know, all of the different things. It’s like seven, eight, 10, five, four – it’s just things that are common sense.”

Earlier in the speech, Trump stated that he had won the big election three times. He added, “I got screwed the second time because they cheated. They cheated. We cannot let that happen again.”

He also explained why he chose to appear in Tennessee. Trump said, “You know sometimes it’s nice to go to a place where you don’t have to be, but you are there to say thank you to the great people that elected you three separate times.”