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He had them at “make America great again.”

No matter what Donald Trump said Thursday in the Rimrock Auto Arena at MetraPark in Billings, he could do no wrong. Before a crowd of several thousand, Trump riffed on oil, immigrants, trade deals and guns, never sticking with one subject long enough to see it to the end. He was the current champion of political scat jazz, the crowd floating The Donald’s stream of consciousness.

“When you go along and you have all these people running, it’s the largest field,” Trump said. He was describing his unexpected rise to presumptive Republican presidential nominee. “I think it’s the largest field. I don’t know. I think it’s the largest field. John, is that the largest field? Ask Campaign Carl. Is this the largest field ever to run? Please tell us. If Campaign Carl says it, it’s true. Unless he’s talking about me, understand no one knows more about politics.”

And then he was on to a different subject, punctuating his vignettes with unexpected shout-outs to the most unlikely of people to set foot in Montana’s largest city for a campaign rally.