In Ohio, Crudest President Ever Vows to Only Help Its Citizens If He and Republicans Win

At an Ohio rally on Saturday, Donald Trump vowed to help Ohio if Republicans won the midterms, and a warning that he would be less willing to help if Democrats were elected.

Trump said Republicans would do better than critics expect. “I think we’re going to have a big surprise because they don’t know what’s happening,” he told the ​crowd at a high school in Vandalia, Ohio.

Polls are not good, sir. You mad, Bro?

Trump blamed the fake news reporters for working with “Dumocrats” to rig the election, and claimed they would shock the world if only Republicans would get out and vote.

Trump: "We're gonna win big, and we've gonna shove it up their ass"

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-10-04T00:01:08.282Z

Trump in Ohio: "I had a nice simple life before this. I didn't have to be here on Saturday night going like this, working my ass off in front of your people. I could've been home. I could've been in Monte Carlo."

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-10-04T00:54:42.708Z

As expected, Trump spent a lot of time attacking Democrats, insulting on a bipartisan basis, and promising to help Ohio for electing Republicans:

Trump: "Husted, now that he's a senator, he's a pain in the ass. He calls me all the time. He always wants money. Think of it — if an Amy Acton got in, I don't know anything about her … I'm not gonna help her probably."

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-10-04T01:14:12.121Z

Trump on Democrats: "They are a bunch of dumb son of a bitches"

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-10-04T00:57:58.246Z

Trump: "When I see that Talafreako in Texas. So he's been a vaygan all his life. He's a vaygan vaygan, I didn't even know what the hell a veygan was. A veygan is vegetables. A vaygan is eating a piece of lettuce all day long."

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-10-04T00:08:13.098Z

Trump: "Remember the global warming hoax? But the problem is the ice caps have gotten bigger. Everybody said 'we're all gonna be dead.' I think it was AOC."

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-10-04T00:25:50.536Z

Trump in Ohio does the "too small" gesture to mock El-Sayed and says, "I don't know how he could play football"

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-10-04T00:53:43.617Z

He’s still mad at Kaitlan Collins for not smiling:

Trump goads the crowd into booing Kaitlan Collins, then says "she's such an unhappy person. She never smiles. She's a very unhappy person."

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-10-04T00:10:38.553Z

Trump often touted his high IQ and his MAGA McMath:

Trump claims he's "among the highest IQs anywhere in the world"

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-10-04T00:29:32.174Z

Trump: "I know more about inflation, I know more about everything than anybody in this room. Anybody anywhere in the world. Well, there's a woman sitting over there. She's a housewife but she's very good. She got a natural instinct for business. She perhaps knows more than I do but I don't think so"

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-10-04T00:31:56.055Z

Trump: "We achieved price differences of, listen to this, 300, 400, 500, 600, and in some cases even 700 percent"

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-10-04T00:44:30.909Z

a very weird thing about Trump that I have NEVER seen the media comment on is that he thinks "mutilization" is a word and uses it multiple times during every public appearance

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-10-04T00:04:22.302Z

Trump bribes — Your little check is in the mail, but your big one only comes if we win:

Trump tells his fans in Ohio that "refund checks for $500 each" from the government to them are "already in the mail"

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-10-04T00:33:47.466Z

Trump: "Trump: "If the Democrats win, you will end up in a 1929-style economic depression. We will have a disaster on our hands. Had I lost the election, had we had Kamala win, I believe our country would be destroyed. If the Republicans win, you will each have $5,000 in your pocket."

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-10-04T00:28:38.399Z

Trump responds to "four more years!" chants: "I'd love to do that. I'd love to do the four more years thing."

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-10-04T00:57:01.438Z

Reuters, Mediaite

And yet on Sunday morning, Trump (or his human binky) posted his distress that Fox News did not give his rally enough coverage.

Trump warned that failing to cover the rallies could hurt the network’s audience, writing that viewers would “very quickly stop watching” if the approach continues.

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