Elon Musk, Melania Trump, and UFC president Dana White were seen taking the stage at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally in New York City on Sunday, October 27.
Trump sold out the stadium, drawing around 19,500 supporters. Among the speakers rallying behind the former president, just days before the November 5 election, was Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who said that if Trump won, “America is going to reach heights it has never seen before.”
Melania Trump, the former president’s wife, also participated in the rally, introducing the night’s most anticipated moment when the Republican Party candidate took the stage.
“I will end inflation, I will stop the invasion of criminals entering our country,” Trump said. “And I will bring back the American Dream. We need the American Dream to come back home.”
The rally was marked by controversy as comedian Tony Hinchcliffe sparked backlash by calling Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage.” Trump campaign advisor Daniella Alvarez later told Forbes that the “joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign.” Credit: Donald J Trump via Storyful
Video Transcript
Trump is the only man that can fix this country today.
And with Trump as our commander in chief, peace through strength will fix all the problems in the Middle East.
You know, I’ve been coming to this building month after month after month and I’ve seen sold out crowds over and over again for over 40 years and for 40 years, I’ve always asked the question, what you’re gonna do over and over and over again.
What you’re gonna do.
Well today, after feeling the energy in this building, I finally got the answer and the answer is vote for Trump.
America is just not, it’s just gonna be great.
America is gonna reach heights that it has never seen before.
The future is gonna be amazing.
Now, you guys were awesome.
Honestly, this is like we are nine days away from the most important election of my lifetime stakes have never been higher and the choice has never been clearer.
President Trump and I have been friends for 25 years.
I’ve said this before and I’m gonna say it again.
He is the most resilient, hardest working human being that I’ve ever met in my life.
Like I said the difference between winners and losers is winners do things, losers don’t want to do.
And what they do is they take actions toward known outcomes.
They deal with the truth.
They set goals and they go after them with passion and it’s time for us to bring it home.
Imagine if you’re, and just pause for one moment.
Imagine you’re Donald Trump, you’re from New York City.
You become famous in New York City.
You make your fortune in New York City and all of a sudden the leadership of New York City decides they’re going to destroy you because they don’t like your politics.
And so they, yeah, boo, imagine if that were you though and they try and take everything that you have, they try and put you in prison, they try and put your Children in prison if that happened to you, how often do you think you’d be going back to New York City?
How about never?