Trump joins wife Melania as he closes out Madison Square Garden rally: Live

Hundreds of Donald Trump fans have been standing in 50-degree New York City temperatures outside Madison Square Garden, watching the rally on an LED screen, according to The Independent’s Ariana Baio, who was on scene.

Those watching outside were unable to enter the venue because it was full.

Three women from Connectitcut told Baio that they had arrived at 1pm — and hour after the doors opened — and were turned away because the Garden was already full.

A large NYPD presence monitored the crowd.

Donald Trump took the stage at his Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday. He walked out to a live rendition of “God Bless the USA” sung by Lee Greenwood.

Former First Lady Melania Trump greeted him at the podium on stage while Greenwood stood off to the side singing.

Former First Lady Melania Trump made a rare 2024 campaign appearance to boost her husband’s campaign.

Melania made waves earlier this year when she revealed in her book that she supported women’s reproductive rights.

“New York City and America needs their magic back,” Melania said. “A country of tomorrow that will shape our future and reset expectations for the generations. A vision of a wonderful America where the seeds of prosperity, security, and health are sown once again.”

She then introduced her husband.

Tesla and X CEO Elon Musk called for Republicans to make the margin of victory for Donald Trump in the 2024 election “so big that you know what can’t happen.”

His unsubtle omission suggested that Democrats would try to steal the election from Trump if the former president doesn’t win in 2024 by an overwhelming majority of votes.

Tesla and X CEO Elon Musk spoke at Donald Trump’s Sunday rally, where he once again introduced himself as “dark, gothic MAGA.”

Musk, who Trump has tapped to help allegedly reduce “waste” in the federal government through the “department of government efficiency,” said he thought he could help the US save “two trillion dollars.”

He called all federal spending “taxation.”

After explaining how he intended to gut the federal government, the crowd chanted “Elon.” The Tesla CEO ate up the adoration, saying “this is the kind of positive energy America is all about,” before leading a “USA” chant.

Puerto Rican superstar rapper Bad Bunny posted his support for Kamala Harris on Sunday, sharing several videos featuring the vice president on his Instagram feed.

He made his appeal to Puerto Rican voters writing that he will “never forget what Donald Trump did and what he did not do when Puerto Rico needed a caring and a competent leader.”

Earlier on Sunday, podcaster Tony Hinchcliffe opened Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally, and made a comment in which he compared Puerto Rico to a “floating island of garbage.” He also made vulagr and racist remarks about the broader Latino community in the US.

Governor Tim Walz and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez played Madden NFL 25 on Sunday and discussed policy during a Twitch livestream.

During their discussion, Walz asked Ocasio-Cortez about her stance on the filibuster in the Senate.

“I don’t know where you stand, but I’m going to guess you and I are probably the same on the filibuster,” Walz asked Ocasio-Cortez.

“Oh yeah, we have got to get rid of that thing,” she replied.

Donald Trump Jr followed his brother Eric to the stage at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally.

He called his father the “king of New York,” and said he would “reclaim the city that he built.”

Trump Jr expressed skepticism that the daughter of a “Marxist professor” — Kamala Harris — would govern as a “moderate.”

He boasted about his father’s term in office, bragging on the economy and the fact that Russia hadn’t invaded Ukraine. He then asked why Harris hadn’t done more to fix the US while she was in office, despite it being well understood — including by Trump himself — that vice presidents do not possess the power to unilaterally make sweeping legislative changes.

Trump Jr then boasted about his father being a “bada**,” for getting up after he was “shot in the face.”

The former president’s ear was grazed.

Trump Jr then hinted at the Great Replacement conspiracy theory, suggesting that Democrats were “replacing” American voters with voters who would be more supportive. The Great Replacement conspiracy suggests that Democrats are allowing illegal immigrants into the country with the expectation that they will vote for them in elections, with the idea being that “real” Americans — a dogwhistle for white conservatives — will be drowned out as a powerful voting demographic.

Conjuring images of Gob Bluth’s oft-failed “illusions,” Donald Trump’s son Eric and his wife Lara arrived at the former president’s rally walking out to “The Final Countdown.”

He claimed that Democrats tried to take away Trump’s free speech when he was banned on social media sites — a decision Democrats had no hand in — and that they enagaged in “lawfare” to try to throw his father in prison.

The younger Trump managed some restraint, however — he said that “someone,” and not explicitly Democrats, tried to kill his father earlier this year. Many of the other speakers on Sunday did not make that distinction.

Eric said that his father would not only “make America great again, he’s going to make New York City great again.”

“The best days of this nation are ahead of us,” he said.

Lara, who serves as the co-chair of the RNC, then took the podium.

She played to the crowd, calling New York City the “greatest city,” and said that while “New York made Donald Trump,” that “Donald Trump made New York City.”

Lara then bragged on Trump’s alleged “toughness,” praising his mugshot as the “greatest mugshot in the history of the world” and insisted that it was New York City that made him tough.

JD Vance, along with nearly all of the speakers at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally, suggested that Democrats were behind the two atttempted assassinations that targeted the former president earlier this year.

There is zero evidence suggesting Democrats were behind those assassination attempts. He is lying to voters.