President Donald Trump brings ‘homecoming’ rally to South Florida
SUNRISE, Fla. – President Donald Trump is headed to South Florida for a “homecoming” rally Tuesday night in Sunrise.
The campaign rally for the Republican president is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m., but doors to the BB&T Center will open at 3 p.m.
Trump announced earlier this fall that he now considers Florida his home, specifically his beloved Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, where he’s spending Thanksgiving.
Outside the arena on Tuesday afternoon, Richard Rossi, 63, of Pompano Beach, was wearing a firefighter helmet with bull horns and holding a cow bell and a sign saying “you get no bull with Trump” as he posted for photos with rally-goers
“I’m wearing this outfit to prove that I’m the ‘original Trumper’” Rossi said.
He wore the same outfit at a Trump event in 2012 in Boca Raton, he said. At that time, he said Trump was just “dipping his toe in the waters” deciding if he would run.
“This is outstanding that he’s here,” Rossi said. He said he also went to a rally in Orlando at the start of the campaign, though he didn’t wear the bull outfit then.
Donald J. Trump filled the BB&T Center Arena to its rafters and then added thousands more supporters outside the arena.