In a Trump campaign rally first, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump brought two of his grandkids on stage, including Carolina — aptly named after the state he was speaking in Saturday afternoon.
"Can I ask Carolina to come up?" Trump said during his Wilmington, N.C., campaign rally, which aired live and in its entirety on Newsmax and the free Newsmax2 streaming platform.
"Is that possible? Carolina, she sat on my lap during the Republican convention.
"Carolina, oh my God, look at that baby."
Carolina, 5, is the former president's 10th grandchild and the daughter of Eric and Lara Trump.
"Make America great again," Carolina, held in her grandfather's arms at the mic, told the adoring crowd.
The crowd chanted "Carolina" repeatedly, enjoying the precious Trump family moment on stage.
"Oh, that was great, honey," Trump said, retaking the mic. "Wow, yeah, thank you. What a good job. Oh my gosh, Carolina."
Trump also brought Carolina's slightly older brother Luke on stage, behind the bulletproof glass made necessary after two failed assassination attempts on their grandfather.
"Would anybody like to meet Luke, her brother Luke?" Trump said. "Come on up."
Luke delivered a simple plea.
"Vote for grandpa," Luke said into the mic, also in grandpa's hands.
Trump said Luke choose his own message, eschewing his grandfather's whispered prompt.
"Oh, thank you sweetheart," Trump told the crowd. "Thank you. Great job. So cute. Oh, he doesn't want to get off the stage. Oh, wow. Look at that. He's got the gene.
"Thank you, thank you.
"Luke, you know, I said, say 'MAGA,' I whispered into his ear. So I whispered into his ear. So cute.
"I said, 'say MAGA.' He said, 'vote for grandpa.' He didn't care what I said and that was actually much better, right? That was much better. Thanks, Luke. Thanks, Carolina.
"Thank you honey. What great kids, great people. That whole family is a wonderful family. Thank you. Thank you very much."
Before his grandchildren took the stage, the former president called their father, Eric — who took over the Trump Organization when his father assumed the White House in 2017 — "the most subpoenaed man in the history of our country."
"Lara and Eric, I call it a super couple; that's a super couple," Trump said. "And you're doing a great job, Lara. And he's doing a great job.
"He's the most subpoenaed human being in the history of the United States. Every day he gets a subpoena from Congress, from crooked D.A., a crooked AG, in Democrat areas only.
"But man, he's tough as hell. He's become — he was such a nice young man just a little while ago — now he's become like a hardened tough man."
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