Donald Trump kicked off a rapid-fire campaign push Wednesday night with a rally in Phoenix, Arizona, in an attempt to provide counter-programming to the Democrats’ highly anticipated debate in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Trump opened his speech by paying tribute to the World War II veteran who was carried into the rally by two Trump supporters, a clip of which circulated on social media.

“I don’t know if he knows it he’s right now the hottest celebrity in the world. Maybe even hotter than Trump,” the president said.

“He’s all over television; even fake news CNN had him on,” Trump said of WWII veteran Irvin Julian.

I mean, yes it was nice. But doesn’t it say something that it’s news when Trump supporters do something nice? Democrats do things like this day in and day out, and we don’t need press to show when we act like actual humans.

This put tears in my eyes.

This WWII veteran needed help getting to his seat at a Trump rally, so these 2 amazing patriots carried him there.

This is beautiful.

RT!
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— Ryan Fournier (@RyanAFournier) February 20, 2020

Trump’s event at Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum is the first of three rallies in three days. He won Arizona over Hillary Clinton in 2016 by about 3.5 percent, but Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, a moderate Democrat, narrowly defeated the incumbent Republican, Sen. Martha McSally, in 2018.

After Arizona, Trump is scheduled to take his tour to Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Thursday, and then Las Vegas on Friday, just before the critical Nevada caucuses Saturday.

While addressing the crowd on Wednesday night, a sweaty Trump talked about the State of the Union, and said it was a week ago. It was actually more than two weeks ago, and was held on February 4, 2020.

One of the first signs of dementia is memory loss and getting dates wrong. So, we must ask…what is wrong with Trump?

TRUMP in Phoenix: "Do you remember the good time we had a week ago at the State of the Union?" (State of the Union was actually more than two weeks ago.) pic.twitter.com/FeQsgSrw4i

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 20, 2020

Trump also whined that Conan the dog, who killed terrorist al-Baghdadi, gets better press than him.

Trump whines about Conan the dog getting more positive press than him following the al-Baghdadi raid pic.twitter.com/QTk56O3kF1

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 20, 2020