The slogan was not the only example Thursday night of Trump’s tendency to repeat a lie until his audience is numb to it. For example, Trump keeps insisting that his border wall is under construction, although it is not. “We have to build a wall and we have already started the wall,” he said at the Indiana rally. This is not true. There is ongoing work on existing border fences, and the spending bill passed by Congress in March (and signed by a frustrated Trump) allocates $1.6 billion for that effort. But it explicitly prevents the construction of any of the new border-wall prototypes the president has ordered.

Now, one could argue that the fence is the wall—but the fence existed before the election, and Trump’s raison de courir was that a real wall, broad and deep and high, was needed. Claiming that this new wall is under construction is simply false, but the president keeps saying it, even tweeting pictures of a project that began in 2009 and claiming they show his wall.

To bolster the claim on Thursday, Trump delivered a strange bit about the border fence outside San Diego, which contained a dizzying series of claims. Congress appropriated $251 million for secondary fencing there, where a fence already exists. Echoing a tweet in April, Trump said the people of San Diego were eager for a wall, which may or may not be true, although its city council and Republican mayor have been less positive. Then he said that he should have refused to build the wall there, so that San Diegans would pressure California Governor Jerry Brown, a frequent Trump sparring partner, to back border-security measures. Finally, he claimed that—actually—he had asked his aides what it would cost to halt construction, so that San Diegans would pressure Brown.

“They got back to me and said it would cost approximately $7 million to stop. That is not big numbers when you hear about the numbers we talk about, $7 million to stop and restart at a later date,” Trump said. “I said, ‘I can’t do that to the American people, keep building the wall.’”

The whole thing is peculiar: Even if he decided against the plan in the end, the president is saying he considered punishing his own supporters to make a political point, and considered burning millions of taxpayer money to do it. As far as I can tell, these alleged internal discussions haven’t been reported anywhere previously, and it’s unclear whether they really happened. Customs and Border Patrol referred to the White House for comment, and a spokeswoman did not immediately reply.

Trump’s adventures in bogus claims extended overseas, too. He devoted a long section of his speech to a discussion of how he had supposedly saved millions of dollars on the construction of the new U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem. This time around, he didn’t really place a solid figure on what he claims the embassy will run, but he’s told this story several times before, with varying amounts. In March, he said it would cost $250,000. In April, he said it would be more like $400,000. In both cases, he was misleading. The six-figure price tag is for a temporary embassy in Jerusalem, while the U.S. is still working to build a new, permanent embassy, which will be more expensive. (The GOP megadonor Sheldon Adelson has offered to chip in for the cost.)