Subject: Travel print pool report #4 - Rally site arrival
Ospreys landed a little after 5:30 PM local time in a field next to the Aaron Bessant Park amphitheater in Panama City Beach, Fla., roughly 20 miles from the Air Force base.
Pool saw POTUS enter a van a few minutes after his helicopter landed. The rally is set to begin at 7:00 PM local time. We have no information about what POTUS is doing in the intervening 75 minutes, though I have inquired with the White House.
FYI: The hurricane tour at the base lasted roughly 15 minutes.
Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is currently warming up the crowd here and he said Trump is “backstage” and will “be out here in a little bit.”
Crowd is here, almost all standing room only, on a manicured lawn in front of a stage set up underneath the stone and concrete amphitheater and waiting for the event to begin.
Subject: Travel print pool report #4a - Update on POTUS activities
The White House’s Steven Groves passes along the following about the president’s activities in response to an inquiry after we arrived early at the rally site:
“The President took photos with supporters and is now preparing to speak to the crowd. He is in a backstage area currently.”
Sen. Marco Rubio just finished giving a warm-up speech to the crowd.
Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” playing over the loudspeakers as we wait.