The President explained that a “globalist” was someone “who wants the globe to do well, frankly, but not caring about our country so much”.
He continued: “We can’t have that. You know, they have a word. It sort of became old-fashioned. It’s called a nationalist.
“And I say really, we’re not supposed to use that word. You know what I am? I am a nationalist. Use that word,” Trump said.
He said unelected bureaucrats were running the EU, while “radical Democrats” in the US “want to turn back the clock and restore the rule of corrupt, power-hungry globalists”.
In response to Trump’s declaration that he was a nationalist, the crowd enthusiatically chanted “USA!”
But CNN said the word “nationalist” was loaded with “nativist and racial undertones” and should be viewed as extremely negative.
“And globalist. Well, globalist has been used as a slur of sorts, sometimes even against those in the administration, often with anti-semitic overtones,” a CNN host claimed.
“Which just happened to make the president come right out and embrace nationalism. Openly. And claim that mantle. What has happened here?” the host continued, shocked.
The rally at which Trump spoke was huge, reported The Daily Mail. Approximately 100 000 people had RSVP’d to see the president on Monday, five times as many as the available seats.
The venue was changed on Thursday to the Toyota Center in Houston after the unprecedented response for tickets. The Toyota Center has a capacity of around 18 000.
Thousands of fans lined up outside of the stadium for hours, with many even camping out over night, reported ABC13 in Houston.
Comparison video and images from Trump’s rally in Houston and Barack Obama’s event in Nevada showed how the numbers at the Trump event dwarfed those of Obama. While Obama struggled to fill a small arena, Trump had packed out the Toyota Center to capacity. Many supporters had to watch the rally from outside the hall.
“There’s almost no-one there,” commented the Conservative Treehouse blog on Obama’s failure to attract crowds. “It’s the Obama Potemkin village again; only this time in Nevada.”
Trump showed up in support of the Republican candidate’s campaign. Despite the Republican candidate’s Senate challenger raising more than three times as much as the Texas senator in the third quarter of 2018, polling shows that the Republican Ted Cruz, is leading the race.
At 52 percent, Cruz is ahead of his Democratic opponent by seven points, according to a poll of likely voters released on Tuesday. This marks the fourth poll in a row where Cruz has received more than half of the total vote.