DEROY MURDOCH: I was at the Trump Madison Square Garden rally. MSNBC’s opinion is absolutely insane

“Breaking news,” MSNBC’s banner insisted Sunday night. “Trump rally at MSG comes 85 years after pro-Nazi rally at famed arena”. The far-left network’s gripping report included gruesome black-and-white footage of the infamous German American Bund National Socialist gathering, complete with swastikas and salutes in hand.

Speaking about Trump’s packed event at Madison Square Garden, MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart said, “But this jamboree that’s happening right now, you’re seeing it there on your screen in that place, especially terrible because in 1939, more than 20,000 supporters of another fascist leader, Adolf Hitler, filled the Garden for a so-called pro-American rally – a rally where speakers delivered anti-Semitic rhetoric from a stage draped with Nazi flags.” When a Jewish protester rushed to the stage, Capehart explained, American stormtroopers stripped him of his clothes and beat him as he held his head in his hands.

Terrible! But more than that, it is disgusting, vile nonsense. And – thankfully – it’s also spectacularly inaccurate.

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The Nazi rally was held at the old Madison Square Garden at 8th Avenue and West 49th Street, where the Worldwide Plaza office and retail complex is today. Trump and his supporters were not “there” as the MSNBC misinformation claimed.

Former President Donald Trump and former first lady Melania Trump during a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden in New York on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024. (Adam Gray/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

actually, Trump’s extravaganza was a mile south at 8th Avenue and West 33rd Street, where the event began in 1968 – the same year the old MSG was demolished and turned into a parking lot. Not only that, the MAGA nation was not on the same desecrated ground as the pre-WWII Hitlerfest. The facility in question has not existed for 56 years.

The whole premise of MSNBC’s hyperventilation is and Hillary Clinton and other Trump haters – collapsed like an arena shattered by a wrecking ball. Too bad these Trumpophobes didn’t spend five minutes on the Google machine to learn about the three incarnations of MSG, the first two of which were destroyed. Maybe drowning Trump in archival footage of swastika flags is too important to engage in schoolwork-level fact-checking.

The whole left-wing Nuremberg Rally-on-the-Hudson Big Lie suffers from more than just a fatally flawed chronology.

Trump’s event, which I was happy and proud of, bore no resemblance to the 1939 event that left the left polluted with fear.

Instead of fierce American stormtroopers, I saw thousands of calm, cheerful men, women and children line up from the middle of West 33rd Street and wrap north and then east around 1 Penn Plaza to the middle of West 34th Street. They waited peacefully and patriotically under the cool autumn breeze to enter MSG.

As far as I could tell when I was inside, not a single Jew was dragged off the stage or subdued. Instead, Trump adviser Stephen Miller, Trump friend and golf partner Steve Witkoff and Cantor Fitzgerald chief Howard Lutnick were welcomed to the stage. These Jewish gentlemen offered warm and passionate words of support for Trump.

The crowd, which filled every row up to the upper aisle behind the podium, cheered and applauded these speakers with great enthusiasm. Miller, Witkoff and Lutnik were allowed to leave the stage. All three were fully clothed and none showed signs of physical assault or injury.

In an even more dramatic departure from Nazism, Congressman Byron Donalds, D-Florida, and Death Row Records co-founder Michael “Harry O” Harris appealed to the red masses. These two black men also endorsed Trump, much to the delight of mega-MAGA supporters.

Participants hold signs during a campaign event with former President Donald Trump (not pictured) at Madison Square Garden in New York on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024. (Photo by Adam Gray/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

This event was also characterized by passionate but eloquent words former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy – an Indian who clearly lacks blond hair and blue eyes. Ramaswamy (like Miller) electrified the audience with his stirring advocacy of Trump and his policies.

The youngest major presidential contender in living memory also said that gay Americans are welcome in the MAGA tent if they agree with Trump and his followers that men and boys have no place in women’s and women’s sports and that gender reassignment should be restricted adults “Gay marriage is fine, but keep your hands off the kids!” is a MAGA principle that is widely popular across the ideological spectrum.

The event was similar to the one-day National Congress of the Republican Party. The excitement, energy and camaraderie was reminiscent of one of those events associated with the nomination of candidates every four years. The speakers were also of this caliber. They included former congresswoman and recent GOP convert Tulsi Gabbard, House Speaker Mike Johnson, Republican, Hulk Hogan, Eric and Lara Trump.

Another son of a Republican candidate was appalled at what inflation had done to his family’s recent fast-food drive. “If Donald Trump Jr. has sticker shock at McDonald’s, we have a serious problem in this country.”

This case had its own surreal qualities, noted political commentator Tucker Carlson. “One more day after Bobby Kennedy Jr. in Donald Trump rally at Madison Square Garden… Yes, that’s totally normal!”

Amid speeches and snippets of classic rock tunes like “Sweet Home Alabama” and “Sweet Child of Mine,” the campaign featured several new slogans on screens, videos and hallway displays. Many are four words, such as Make America Great Again. They are simple, like cavemen, but direct, powerful, convincing and courageous:

• “Better with Trump”
• “Again about big dreams”
• “No overtime tax”
• “Make America Strong Again”

And my favorite:

Former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during a campaign rally for former president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at Madison Square Garden on October 27, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Melania Trump unexpectedly appeared to introduce her husband. When Donald J. Trump finally took the stage to a standing ovation, Lee Greenwood serenaded the former and possibly future First Couple with a live rendition of “I’m Proud to Be an American.”

Trump himself spoke positively and optimistically about November 5th as “Liberation Day” and promised an exciting combination of big tax cuts, deregulation, energy liberalization, Elon Musk and Howard Lutnick leading a massive effort to cut the federal budget, tariffs and the golden rule of trade. politics (regarding international trade, do unto other nations as they would unto us). I call this supply protectionism. I like the first part more than the second. If anyone can bring these two seemingly contradictory approaches together, it has to be Donald J. Trump.

Instead of the Millennium Reich that Hitler promised Germany, Trump spoke warmly of a “new golden age.”

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This case had its own surreal qualities, noted political commentator Tucker Carlson. “Just another day after Bobby Kennedy Jr. at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally… Yeah, that’s totally fine!”

One sour note of the event was comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s talk about an island made of garbage floating in the middle of the ocean: Puerto Rico. He was the first speaker of the day and appeared when MSG was about half full. While the rest of his set was funny, this line elicited appropriately few laughs and, instead, something between a hush and a groan. Trump and his campaign distanced themselves from the remarks.

It is a pity that Hinchcliffe is diverting attention from an optimistic and extraordinary event in modern politics. And Adolf Hitler would have hated all this.

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