Judging from this video, Trump only briefly squints at the sun without his eclipse glasses and they all wear their eclipse glasses to stare at it.

Yup. The still is taken at 1:33 in the clip.

Big day in Trump's calendar when he will hold a "Campaign" rally in Phoenix, Arizona against the wishes of GOP leaders who would prefer him to do that in States with less GOP support so as to drum up the voters.

Not clear why Trump chose this location; maybe he wants to attack some of his Senate critics like Arizona GOP Senators McCain and Flake?
Trump also upset GOP leaders by publicly supporting Ward who is standing against Flake in 2018; it is GOP policy to support sitting Senators when they come up for re-election.
It is claimed the local rally organizers are trying to prevent Ward attending this rally.
It is believed Arizona GOP Senators McCain and Flake will not attend the rally!

The GOP Arizona governor said he will meet Trump at the airport but also not attend the rally.
There are rumours there will be big protests so there is a very heavy police presence in Phoenix today. A big headache for the Presidential Secret Service protection detail, many of whom are now working unpaid (as posted earlier) due to legal caps on their combined salary and overtime.

#maga

Seems everything is not quite so rosy as was claimed by Trump (not by you)!

According to an article by Chuck Jones the retired president of Indiana’s United Steelworkers Local 1999.
By the end of this year, Carrier and its parent United Technologies will have already shipped a total of 1,250 good union jobs from Indiana to Mexico.

During President Trump’s first six months in the White House, there have been 37 mass layoffs in Indiana. Across the country, more than 140,000 workers have been given pink slips and companies have continued to ship jobs overseas.

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Damn, the man gets EVERYWHERE!

"About 5,000 carrot-coloured ecstasy tablets in the shape of Donald Trump's head have been seized by German police in the north-western city of Osnabruck."

"It's thought the drugs would have been sold on the internet under the slogan "Trump makes partying great again".

"One side of the tablets shows Mr Trump's face and exuberant hairstyle while the president's surname is written on the reverse."

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41015254

New York Times - Back to Nation-Building in Afghanistan. Good.

CNN - The reality is, Trump can make a difference in Afghanistan

The Atlantic - Give Trump Credit For His Afghanistan Plan

Strange, it seems that since Trump has agreed to step up meddling in other country's the mainstream media has been much fairer to him...

Do you have links to msm being unfair to Trump?

Edit - it is usually Trump being unfair to the msm accusing them of Fake News without any supporting evidence, 102 tweets on fake news according to the Trump Twitter archive

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blo...new-york-times

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/24/p...ic-editor.html

The first link you quote "Defending the indefensible: Bias at the New York Times" points in turn to another link to justify this headline but this second link does not actually support this claim of bias.
The last paragraph in the second link says This seems to me to be the opposite of bias?

The second link you posted stated "there is a perception of bias [by the Times readership]" but this is not the same as evidence of actual bias which will be discussed in a later article.

On line videos already of clashes between Trump supporters and protesters some hours before the rally starts!

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Past my bedtime! G'night!

Apparently some Trump supporters have attended disguised as Antifa, presumably to kick off so that they can blame the left.

Mike Cernovich is one of Trumps more vocal online supporters. No idea why he's put this info out there, maybe he has problems with the tactics. Or he's forgotten that Twitter can be seen outside your circle.

https://mobile.twitter.com/cernovich...44132999487488

"Donald Trump has vowed to close down government if that is what it takes to build his wall along the Mexico border."

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41020779

How exactly that would help is anybody's guess. Doesn't Congress have to approve the budget to build the wall? Is he going to fund it out of his own pocket? Or ask for donations from his adoring fans?

He'll use the shutdown threat as a lever to get funds for the wall.

The shutdown itself comes as no surprise though.

Duh, he'll refuse to sign anything until the swamp agrees to put up big bucks to pay for his useless wall. It's a matter of pride (again, and always). And then when government closedown causes havoc, "it's not his fault" (it never is :-)).

Oops, Urs Max beat me to it...

So there you go... Antifa are actually Trump supporters in disguise. Mike Cernovich, a big Trump fan, has said it, so it must be true. Not like the fake news from failing mass media.

PS He did believe Pizzagate too, but, hey, we all get a little bad luck sometimes.

As forecast at his Arizona rally Trump did indeed attack his Senate critics Arizona GOP Senators McCain and Flake

As expected,
EDIT _ Summary from Politico
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Seems he departed from the carefully worded speech on his teleprompter

And now we have the strange spectacle of a group associated with the Senate leader McConnell attacking a GOP candidate for the Senate

THE SENATE LEADERSHIP FUND has cut a video branding Kelli Ward as “not conservative, just crazy ideas.”
REMEMBER: This is the Mitch McConnell aligned super PAC going after the candidate boosted by President Donald Trump. http://bit.ly/2wv6VKb

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Yep, another consequence of "swamp draining". Presidents have not, until now, gone after candidates of their own party. Tearing up this tradition, Trump started a fight by criticizing GOP choice Flake (a Trump hater) and boosting Ward (a Trump fan). So McConnell is fighting back. Since he and Trump shouted at each other over the phone on the 9th of August, they have not spoken.

Who needs an opposition when Trump is president! With any luck his efforts will get a Democrat elected...

More popcorn!

It'll probably happen when they can't agree a budget to keep running for the next year anyway.

Then END is in sight :-)