Posted on 09/01/2020 8:01:49 AM PDT by Eddie01
KENOSHA, WI — President Donald Trump is scheduled to appear in Kenosha on Tuesday for a variety of functions in the wake of the Aug. 23 police shooting of Jacob Blake.
All told, Trump's time in Kenosha is expected to be just shy of two hours as he flies into an airport in Waukegan, Illinois, and heads north into Wisconsin's southernmost city.
While in Wisconsin, Trump is scheduled to take a 20-minute look at a week's worth of property damage, a 15-minute tour of the local Emergency Operations Center and participate in a roundtable discussion about community safety that is expected to last less than an hour.
Here is the president's schedule for Tuesday, as released by the White House Office of the Press Secretary.
11:55 a.m. President Trump arrives at the Waukegan National airport. Ten minutes later, he is scheduled to leave the airport en route to Kenosha.
Subscribe By 12:35 p.m., Trump is scheduled to arrive in Kenosha prior to surveying property damage as a result of last week's civil unrest.
From 12:40 p.m. to 1 p.m., Trump is scheduled to survey the damage.
According to Trump's schedule, he is expected to conclude surveying local damage and appear at Mary D. Bradford High School starting at 1:10 p.m.
According to Trump's schedule, he is expected to tour the Emergency Operations Center by 1:15 p.m.
At 1:30 p.m., Trump is scheduled to participate in a roundtable discussion on Wisconsin Community Safety, where he is expected to give remarks.
By 2:20 p.m., Trump is scheduled to leave Kenosha on his way back to Waukegan.
Opponents Didn't Want Him Here
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers sent a letter to the president last week urging him not to visit, citing a community already emotionally and physically wracked by two shooting incidents and days of protests and property damage.
"I, along with other community leaders who have reached out, are concerned about what your presence will mean for Kenosha and our state," Evers wrote. "I am concerned your presence will only hinder our healing. I am concerned your presence will only delay our work to overcome division and move forward together."
Opposition to Trump's Wisconsin visit spread south of the border to Illinois, where Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot expressed her disapproval of the president's visit.
"If I believed he would come with a message of healing and unity, that would be one thing. But what see from him over and over again — and particularly as part of his re-election bid — is to exploit tensions and division and that's the last thing that Kenosha needs, it's the last thing Wisconsin needs, and it's the last thing our region and our country needs," Lightfoot said in a Monday afternoon news conference. "So I understand and agree with the call from the governor and Wisconsin and other local elected officials from Wisconsin asking the president not to go to Kenosha at this time. We need to figure out how we can build bridges to reach each other. We need to get rid of the divisive rhetoric — all that is doing is deepening the despair that so many people feel."
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“Trump is scheduled to arrive in Kenosha prior to surveying property damage”
For best results
Bet that published schedule doesn’t happen at the times or the order presented here.
[deep state mouthpiece] There are concerns though that could exacerbate tensions and increase violence do you give any consideration to that.
[President Trump] Well it could also increase enthusiasm and it could increase love and respect for our country. …and that’s why I'm going cause they did a fantastic job.
Talk about getting paddled with the truth.
the D politicians are destroying our large cities (NYC, Baltimore, Philly, SF, LA, Chicago) and now they are “taking the revolution to” our smaller cities (Kenosha population 99,000 or so, and with “demonstrations” in numerous other small cities and towns that have never seen such violence or gangs of threatening thugs before). Prepare to defend YOUR town, your home, your family and friends.
I hope the cameras are rolling to capture all the stores he loots, all the fires he starts and yelling at all the old people eating lunch and demanding they declare their support for him.
I sure hope rioters don’t come into the site and just let Trump try to thank people.
Bite me Evers.
Thank God for a competent Secret Service... they must be stressed out.
I pray for Trumps safety.
He is going into the heart of the beast.
There MUST be an overwhelming SS,
Police, and National Guard security forces.
I'll bet the person who announces the press conference start times also put this together.
Among who?
You prefer running from dogs huh. All I need to know.
They’ll catch you and maul you to death you know.
...but have it your way.
Then you don't know much.
Hey Gov Evers, here’s a thought...
... how about going to Kenosha and greet the President there?
Show a little bipartisanship? Maybe “united against violence” Or perhaps just doing what was custom in the pass when a President shows up in your state?
No, add fuel to a fire from bad info, watch a city in your state burn, then say the President coming would only make things worse??
Then why call out the National Guard??
Sorry - just ranting.
I’m OUT
What’s the chance a lot of Trump supporters will line the roads with flags and patriotic signs? Isn’t this what the Democrat politicians are really afraid of?
Good point.
Even worse optics, would be Antifa thugs committing violence against the peaceful supporters, all caught on camera.
Another +5 points.
Quite the political move that DJT visits Kenosha before Gov Evers, isn’t it.
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