--- title: Trump Sails Through Rally as House Votes to Impeach Him description: President Donald Trump was impeached by the House as he talked to supporters at rally in Michigan for more than two hours canonical: https://time.com/5752570/donald-trump-impeachment-rally-michigan/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-12-19T03:11:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-12T20:13:48.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Trump Sails Through Rally as House Votes to Impeach Him og:description: President Donald Trump was impeached by the House as he talked to supporters at rally in Michigan for more than two hours og:url: https://time.com/5752570/donald-trump-impeachment-rally-michigan/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt47f3cb98f75c34ac/698a07cc09208f58574160f1/trump-rally-michigan-impeachment.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: President Trump Holds "Merry Christmas" Campaign Rally In Michigan og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Trump Sails Through Rally as House Votes to Impeach Him twitter:description: President Donald Trump was impeached by the House as he talked to supporters at rally in Michigan for more than two hours twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt47f3cb98f75c34ac/698a07cc09208f58574160f1/trump-rally-michigan-impeachment.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 video:duration: 01:34 video:published: 2019-12-19 section: politics topics: impeachment, Trump rally, House Democrats, Nancy Pelosi, polling, upcoming election, Washington swamp, partisan politics, presidential campaign, voter rights genre: political speech, news clip tones: combative, defiant, partisan, critical, rallying emotions: anger (high), defiance (high), contempt (medium), confidence (medium) sentiment: negative audience: U.S. political news followers, Trump supporters, Voters, Political analysts, General news audience people: Donald Trump, Nancy Pelosi organizations: House of Representatives, Democratic Party content_suitability: politics [00:00-01:34] transcript_source: automatic transcription transcript_reviewed: not applicable ---  # President Trump Offers Supporters Counter-Programming With Rally During Impeachment Vote > Sponsored content. 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In a stunning split-screen moment in U.S. history, President Donald Trump spoke onstage at a rally in Michigan before a cheering crowd while the House of Representatives simultaneously voted to impeach him back in Washington._ Description, summary, key points, chapters, key quotes, questions and transcript, where present, were produced automatically from the video or its captions and were not reviewed. ## Summary The video presents excerpts of remarks by President Trump at a rally, delivered while the House of Representatives voted on impeachment. He calls the impeachment illegal, unconstitutional and partisan and criticizes Democrats in sharply negative terms. He cites his polling and the upcoming election, says he announced his candidacy believing it would deter impeachment, and says Democrats have tried to impeach him from the start. He closes by criticizing the Washington swamp and Democratic Party affiliation. ## Key points - Trump calls the impeachment illegal, unconstitutional and partisan. (00:00) - He says Democrats are declaring deep hatred and disdain for the American voter instead of focusing on what they could be doing. (00:04) - He calls the impeachment a political suicide march for the Democratic Party and asks whether the audience has seen his polls from the last four weeks. (00:19) - He says there is an election down the road and that he announced his run three months earlier. (00:30) - He says he thought announcing his candidacy would stop an impeachment, but that Democrats have tried to impeach him from day one. (00:30) - He says Nancy Pelosi's House Democrats have branded themselves with an eternal mark of shame through their actions. (01:00) - He claims Democratic lawmakers do not believe voters have the right to select their own president. (01:14) - He says the Washington swamp is hard to fight because it is so stacked, and that people present are part of the Democratic Party. (01:19) ## Chapters - [00:00 to 00:19] Denouncing the impeachment and Democrats. Trump calls the impeachment illegal and partisan and accuses Democrats of disdain for voters. - [00:19 to 01:00] Polls, election and impeachment attempts. Trump predicts political damage to Democrats, cites polls and the election, and says impeachment efforts began on day one. - [01:00 to 01:34] Attacks on Pelosi and the swamp. Trump says House Democrats are shamed, claims they deny voters their choice, and criticizes the Washington swamp. ## Key quotes - [00:00] Donald Trump: "With today's illegal, unconstitutional, and partisan impeachment" - [00:19] Donald Trump: "This lawless partisan impeachment is a political suicide march for the Democrat Party." - [00:30] Donald Trump: "But they've been trying to impeach me from day one." - [01:06] Donald Trump: "have branded themselves with an eternal mark of shame." - [01:14] Donald Trump: "Democrat lawmakers do not believe you have the right to select your own president." ## Questions this video answers - How did Trump characterize the impeachment during his rally speech? [00:00] - What did Trump say about his polling during the impeachment vote? [00:19] - Why did Trump say he announced his candidacy when he did? [00:30] - What did Trump say about Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats? [01:00] - What did Trump claim Democratic lawmakers believe about voters choosing the president? [01:14] ## Content suitability - politics [00:00-01:34]: Partisan political speech about presidential impeachment with sharp criticism of Democrats and the Democratic Party.  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Updated: Dec 12, 2023 8:13 PM UTCPublished: Dec 19, 2019 3:11 AM UTC In a stunning split-screen moment in U.S. history, President Donald Trump spoke onstage at a rally in Michigan before a cheering crowd while the House of Representatives simultaneously voted to impeach him back in Washington.  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Updated: Dec 12, 2023 8:13 PM UTCPublished: Dec 19, 2019 3:11 AM UTC In a stunning split-screen moment in U.S. history, President Donald Trump spoke onstage at a rally in Michigan before a cheering crowd while the House of Representatives simultaneously [voted to impeach him](https://time.com/5751699/donald-trump-impeached/) back in Washington. In a speech that lasted just over two hours, one of his key messages to the thousands of voters who came out to support him in Christmas hats and “Make America Great Again” caps was that the first-term impeachment marks an attempt to undo the results of the 2016 election. “Democrat lawmakers do not believe you have the right to select your own president,” Trump said Wednesday night, appearing incensed but still seeming to enjoy himself onstage in an unusually long and meandering speech. “They think the Washington swamp should be able to veto the results of an election.” In many ways, the event in the aptly named city of Battle Creek proceeded like a typical Trump campaign rally, with cheering fans, an energetic president and high decibel levels. Trump himself noted the disconnect: “By the way, it doesn’t really feel like we’re being impeached,” he said shortly after appearing onstage. But the rally occurred on one of the most pivotal days of Trump’s presidency and an extraordinary moment in the history of the country. As he delivered his speech, Trump became the only elected first-term president ever to be impeached, and just the third president to be impeached in the nation’s 243-year history, allowing him to deliver a real-time rebuttal of the momentous proceedings directly to his supporters in a key battleground state. After about 40 minutes talking about other topics like job creation and his victory on election night in 2016— he was referring to Space Force, nuclear submarines and a military F-35 plane, among other things, at the moment the House reached the threshold of votes to impeach him on abuse of power— Trump turned to impeachment. But, when it turned to the subject of the House vote, his message was that Democrats were trying to steal the election from voters, both undoing the results of 2016 and attempting to take away their ability to decide again in 2020\. “Tonight, House Democrats are trying to nullify the ballots of tens of millions of patriotic Americans,” Trump said, flanked onstage by Christmas trees. “We have an election right down the road,” Trump continued, noting he officially announced his reelection campaign months ago. “I’ll give you a little clue: I announced because I figured once I announced, they’d never try to impeach, nobody would be so stupid.” Democrats have said they pushed ahead with impeaching Trump less than a year before the election because he attempted to influence the outcome by linking congressionally approved foreign aid to Ukraine with an investigation into the family of former Vice President Joe Biden. Trump’s rally was as much a rebuttal to the impeachment vote as it was counter programming. He spent most of the night on other topics, riffing on Pete Buttigieg, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and the recent [Justice Department Inspector General’s report on the origins of the FBI investigation into Trump’s campaign. ](https://time.com/5746639/inspector-general-finds-fbi-probe-into-trump-campaign-was-justified-but-not-perfect/)He touted the economy and his record of confirming conservative judges. He seemed at ease onstage, evidenced both in his demeanor and by the length of the rally, despite the stunning rebuke to his presidency that had just occurred. But as he took long diversions into other topics, he kept returning to impeachment. Chants of “four more years!” broke out during the rally, highlighting the unusual circumstance: Trump may be the third president in U.S. history to be impeached, but unless he is removed from office by the Senate, he will be the first impeached president ever to run for reelection. And Wednesday night, he seemed [optimistic about his prospects](https://time.com/5751532/why-democrats-attempts-to-rein-in-trump-with-impeachment-could-make-his-presidency-stronger/). “With Richard Nixon, I just see it as a very dark era,” Trump said. ([President Nixon resigned](https://time.com/5552679/impeached-presidents/) in 1974 in the face of near certain impeachment over the Watergate scandal.) “I don’t know about you, but I’m having a good time,” Trump said. “I’m not worried.” **Correction, Dec. 20** _The original version of this story misstated the circumstances of President Donald Trump’s impeachment. 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