After a busy week including a speech before the United Nations and a scheduled meeting on Thursday with embattled Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, President Donald Trump will continue his Make America Great Again campaign schedule, with rallies in Tennessee and West Virginia.
Up first in the MAGA rally schedule is a stop in Wheeling, West Virginia, on Saturday, September 29, and a second in Johnson City, Tennessee, on Monday, October 1. Trump had promised to return to West Virginia before the November 6 general election, when he was last in the state in August. Campaign officials said Trump will be "celebrating the growing success of the Trump economy, and encouraging West Virginians to get out and vote for Patrick Morrisey for the U.S. Senate."
Trump's Wheeling rally will be held Saturday at 7 p.m. local time at Wesbanco Arena. The rally could bring supporters from "Ohio and Pennsylvania and draw coverage from the Pittsburgh media," according to the West Virginia Metro News. Tickets are available on a limited, first come, first served basis on Trump's MAGA site.
On Monday, President Trump is scheduled to visit Johnson City, Tennessee, for a rally in the Tri-Cities area. His Tennessee visit arrives six weeks before the midterm elections, which include an important race in Tennessee for the U.S. Senate between Republican Marsha Blackburn and Democrat Phil Bredesen.
Trump's Johnson City MAGA rally is scheduled for Freedom Hall at 7 p.m. Congressman Phil Roe told News Channel 11 in the Tri-Cities he expects President Trump to arrive around 5 p.m. local time on Monday at Tri-Cities Airport.
Roe told the news station he will be onstage along with other Republicans on the ballot in November including Blackburn and also likely Tennessee state representative Chuck Fleischmann. Tickets to the Tennessee rally are available on a limited basis on the MAGA site.
President's Trump is in the midst of a typically busy week ahead of the campaign rallies. He is scheduled to meet face-to-face at the White House on Thursday with Rosenstein, amid speculation that the deputy attorney general may resign or be fired.
On Tuesday, the president addressed the United Nations General Assembly and drew blank stares, headshakes and even laughter from wary world leaders, according to the Associated Press. Some laughed when the president said he had "accomplished more than any administration in the history of our country" in his two years in office.
Trump also said in his U.N. speech that he no longer wants to fund countries that don't help America.
"Trump said in Tuesday's speech to the U.N. General Assembly, the U.S. is the world's largest donor of foreign aid 'but few give anything to us,' Associated Press reported. "He says that's why he has asked Pompeo to review the billions of dollars in foreign aid the U.S. hands out each year."
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