- Former President Donald Trump headlined an event in Phoenix on Friday
- It was so hot that 11 of his followers were hospitalized for heat exhaustion.
Eleven supporters of former President Donald Trump have been hospitalized for heat-related symptoms after lining up to hear the presumptive Republican nominee speak at an event Friday in Arizona.
Trump headlines a Turning Point USA event at Dream City Church in Phoenix, where temperatures soared to 110 degrees around 1:30 p.m. as crowds of his supporters waited outside. according to local news reports.
The event marks his first campaign event since he was convicted of 34 counts of falsifying business records over money payments paid to Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election.
When Trump took the stage, he said there were “thousands of people outside.”
At the immigration-focused event, the former president sparked a ‘bulls***’ chant, while using the bad word to refer to President Joe Biden’s new executive order on the border.
Former President Donald Trump headlined a Turning Point USA event Thursday in Phoenix, where 11 of his supporters were hospitalized with heat-related illnesses after waiting outside.
A Trump supporter is treated for exhaustion Friday in Phoenix after crowds waited for hours outside the event, held at a megachurch, as temperatures reached 110 degrees.
Supporters of former President Donald Trump are photographed waiting outside on Friday in Phoenix, Arizona.
“I don’t like saying the word stupid in front of these beautiful children,” Trump said with a smile.
Members of the crowd said it instead.
Biden’s order suspended asylum guarantees that traditionally allowed anyone who arrived on US soil to apply, a policy more in line with what Trump has preferred.
Still, the former president was not impressed.
The Turning Point USA event was set up for Trump to answer questions, giving the former president additional ammunition to take on Biden, pointing to the Democrat’s rare news conferences.
“I’m not like Joe, tell me who’s going to… He has a press conference that lasts about two minutes and he goes like this, he’s reading a card, ‘umm NBC Jim, Jim,’ and then they ask him a question and then he takes the same paper and read the answer,” Trump said. “They never do that with me.”
‘Is anyone going to be watching the debate with this character?’ Then Trump added.
Trump and Biden agreed to face each other in two debates before the November election, beginning with one on June 27 hosted by CNN and moderated by Jake Tapper and Dana Bash.
—Does anyone know him, Fake Tapper? Trump asked, then called Bash “another beauty.”
He said the Biden campaign wanted the debates to be “sit down” and “short” and Trump said he agreed with them anyway.
“Frankly, we should have a lot of debates,” said the former president, before returning to the topic of immigration.
