The far-right “ReAwaken America” gathering in Manheim, Pennsylvania, this weekend wasn’t your typical pro-Trump rally.
It was a whole different level of crazy.
The QAnon-peppered programming frequently flew off the rails Saturday, as speakers took severe issue with everything from McDonald’s being part of the “deep state” to “demonic satellites” controlling the voting system in the United States.
The day’s activities kicked off with a prayer asking for Trump’s eyes to be opened so he could be shown when to “implement divine intervention.”
“You will surround him, Father, with none of this deep-state trash, none of this RINO trash,” the speaker—who led the prayer—yelled as attendees thrust their hands into the air.
Other speakers included Roger Stone, Michael Flynn, Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano, and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, though the crowd favorite appeared to be organizer Clay Clark, who frequently took to the microphone to accuse McDonald’s of being part of the “deep state” and ask about Michelle Obama’s gender.
“What gender is Michelle Obama?” Clark asked. The crowd overwhelmingly yelled back: “Male.”
Then, without missing a beat, Clark began claiming there was a “war on food” and alleged a shady left-wing entity was pushing for the feeding of “insect burgers” to the masses.
Clark didn’t stop there. Elsewhere, the organizer—whose gathering once triggered an anthrax scare—called people that wear masks on planes “jackass-er-y.”
Fresh off of a video emerging of Stone calling Ivanka Trump an “abortionist bitch daughter,” the longtime informal Trump adviser attempted to flip the script, claiming videos showing him encouraging violence were actually part of “continued harassment” against him.
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“I am guilty of the crime of supporting President Donald Trump,” he said. “Loving him for 40 years.”
Right-wing doctor Stella Immanuel, best known for her belief in demon sperm, urged attendees to pray that both satellites and voting machines be destroyed.
“We need to pray and crush… the demonic satellites. We need to send a holy ghost virus into their computers, to destroy them, so they will not function, or until our election is over,” she said, to the crowd’s applause.
Earlier on Friday afternoon, Eric Trump—a longtime staple at fringe anti-vaccine confabs—took to the stage and phoned up his father to address the QAnon-friendly conference.
“We love you all,” said the ex-president, who was at times muted by Eric Trump’s phone not being close enough to the microphone. “And we’ll be back doing things that… We’re going to bring this country back because our country’s never been in such bad shape as it is now.”
Eric added that he advised his father—who has been subpoenaed to appear before the Jan 6. committee—to testify due to it being “the greatest entertainment.”
“Who wants to pop a beer, make some popcorn, and watch Donald Trump talk about election fraud in the United States of America,” he continued.
But perhaps the craziest message of the weekend thus far was from Julie Green, a self-identifying prophet, who told the crowd she had a message directly from God.
“Says God, you can’t stop my son, who is the rightful president,” Green said on Friday evening. “He is on his way back, and how he takes his position back on center stage, you will never see that coming because you won’t see me coming. And I am with him.”
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A gold-colored bobblehead of former President Donald Trump and other merchandise is displayed for sale during the ReAwaken America Tour at Cornerstone Church in Batavia, N.Y., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. A speaker at a pro-Trump rally in Pennsylvania said on Friday that the “angel of death” was coming for various politicians, including Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham and high-profile Democrats.
“The angel of death is coming to visit these people. These people are going down. These people who control the world think that they are pharaohs, the present-day pharaohs. Soon you shall never see again,” the speaker, who was identified as Bo Polny by HuffPost reporter Christopher Mathias on Twitter, said.
He simultaneously showed an image of high-profile politicians, judges, and journalists, including President Joe Biden, former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, and CNN journalist Brian Stelter.
The image said, “the Angel of Death is coming for them by year-end,” and “treason will be written on them for ALL ETERNITY.”
Those pictured were primarily Democrats or left-wing, with the exception of Graham, the senior senator for South Carolina, who was once a vocal critic of Trump but became an ally during his time as president.
The speaker then told the crowd that Donald Trump will be returning to office in 2022 and that it would be “God’s will.”
The two-day “ReAwaken America” rally also featured speeches by Eric Trump, Michael Flynn, Roger Stone, and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell.
Mathias, who attended the event, said on Twitter that the conference was Christian nationalist and “QAnon-friendly.”
Several of the speakers promoted fringe conspiracy theories and views, including far-right doctor Stella Immanuel, who encouraged rally-goers to pray that “demonic satellites” and voting machines get destroyed.
Julie Green, a self-described “prophet,” also prophesied Trump’s imminent return to office, who she described as God’s son, according to PennLive.com.
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