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At his first rally since the violence of Charlottesville, U.S. President Donald Trump Tuesday night declared NAFTA all but terminated, tore into the media for the widespread condemnation of his response to the horrific clash between white supremacists and anti-protestors at Charlottesville and threatened to shut down the federal government unless Congress funds his promised Mexico wall.

The Phoenix rally began as a love-in with his base, with Trump calling for unity and declaring like a televangelist “our movement is a movement about love.” It ended in a haze of pepper spray after protesters and police clashed outside the convention centre.

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Here’s a recap of some of his most outrageous statements:

On NAFTA: “Personally, I don’t think we can make a deal because we have been so badly taken advantage of … So I think we’ll end up probably terminating NAFTA at some point, OK? Probably.”

Trump’s threat to tear up NAFTA less than a week into its renegotiation was the kind of “red meat” rhetoric that gets his supporters happy and excited, says Carleton University’s Ian Lee, who said Trump is attempting to “reach in, virtually speaking” to the NAFTA negotiation room. “He’s playing mind games with the negotiators,” said Lee, an associate professor in the Sprott School of Business. “He’s trying to intimidate at a distance.”