Former President Donald Trump held a huge Jersey Shore rally Saturday night in Wildwood, where he talked about eating hot dogs and mocked the state’s former governor, Chris Christie.
The former president’s campaign claimed that 80,000 supporters demonstrated in favor of the oceanfront issue.
Trump opened the rally by saying he planned to compete not only in New Jersey – a traditionally Democratic state – but also in Minnesota and Virginia.
“I don’t know if it could be all of them,” Trump predicted of the states he would win in the November elections. “This guy is so bad it could be all of them.”
The presumptive Republican nominee peppered his speech with references to the Jersey Shore, while speaking in front of a large Ferris wheel and other amusement park attractions.
‘Let’s talk about hot dogs. In fact, I just had one,” Trump declared. “I just ate a hot dog, it was very good.”
Former President Donald Trump headlined a large Jersey Shore rally Saturday in the town of Wildwood.
Supporters of former President Donald Trump applaud during the playing of the national anthem before his appearance Saturday in Wildwood.
The Trump campaign said there were 80,000 of the former president’s supporters at the massive beach rally.
He went on to tell a story about how Frank Sinatra told him not to eat before a performance, but he didn’t follow that advice because he was a “politician,” while his other friend, Italian opera singer Pavarotti, didn’t give him that advice.
Trump then got back to the heart of the message: that hot dogs, hamburgers, gas and everything else are too expensive under President Joe Biden.
“I know the coast better than most people here,” Trump also boasted several minutes into his speech, recalling that he once owned three casinos in Atlantic City.
At another point, Trump mentioned the state’s former governor, Chris Christie.
‘Does anyone like Chris Christie?’ he asked the huge crowd.
They sounded everywhere.
Christie ran against Trump in the Republican primary earlier this year, as the most prominent anti-Trump Republican.
Former President Donald Trump (left) and former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (right) in 2017, when they were political allies.
His message did not resonate with early state voters and he withdrew before the Jan. 15 Iowa caucuses, refusing to endorse a different candidate upon exit.
“So I was in New Hampshire and he was fighting, fighting, like he was totally unhinged,” Trupm said of Christie, adding that he was a “major case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
And someone in the front row said, “Sir, he’s a fat pig.” The person was a good person. I told him, ‘You can’t call Chris Christie a fat pig…please, sir, if he calls you a fat pig one more time, I’ll have to make you leave the arena,’ Trump said.
“And the guy didn’t know what was going on,” Trump continued. ‘I said, don’t worry about it, I’m just joking. But I said you can’t call him a fat pig because you can’t use the word fat.
“You know you can use almost any word, but you can’t use the word fat: it’s the end of the race, if you call someone fat, it’s the end of the race,” added the former president.
And then Trump offered to say, “We’re all fat.”
Former President Donald Trump headlined a Jersey Shore rally in Wildwood on Saturday that his campaign said drew 80,000 supporters.
Trump supporters in the main seats at Saturday’s rally in Wildwood, New Jersey, were greeted with “Never Give Up” signs. the mugshot of the former president
Thousands of Trump supporters line up Saturday ahead of former President Donald Trump’s rally in Wildwood, New Jersey, with some arriving two days early.
A man and woman hang out on the Wildwood boardwalk, where below thousands of Trump supporters wait in line for Saturday’s Jersey Shore rally.
Trump’s most devoted supporters began camping out on Jersey Beach on Thursday night, 48 hours before the former president was scheduled to speak.
They battled wind, some rain and temperatures that hovered around 50 degrees, unusually cold for mid-May.
On the nearby boardwalk, stores were packed with MAGA merchandise — hats, T-shirts, shorts and even gold ankle boots — that looked like Trump’s $400 Sneaker Con sneakers.
The rally was held on the oceanfront, between two amusement parks on the boardwalk, and many Trump supporters lay on the sand as they waited for hours for the former president to speak.
Around 4 p.m., Trump Force One flew over the crowd, which the announcer said numbered 80,000 people.
Grooming acts included Mike Crispi, who ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 2022.
He predicted that Trump would soon overtake Biden in the New Jersey presidential polls.
Trump Force One flew over the rally site around 4 pm on Saturday, an hour before Trump originally spoke.
A Trump doll was on display on the boardwalk Saturday as supporters gathered to watch former President Donald Trump speak in Wildwood, New Jersey.
A man sports a pair of The Never Surrender high-top sneakers at Saturday’s Trump rally in Wildwood, New Jersey.
An Emerson College end of march survey showed the Democratic president with a five-point lead over Trump in the Garden State, with third-party candidates including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Cornel West and Jill Stein.
In a two-person race, Biden beat Trump by six.
‘It turns out that the good people of New Jersey “They don’t like higher taxes, they don’t like foreign wars and they don’t like a president who can’t stay awake all day,” Crispi told the crowd, apparently unaware of reports that Trump had fallen asleep during your court hearing. during the secret money trial.
Democratic-turned-Republican Rep. Jeff Van Drew was also present.
Even though Trump insisted that he liked in-person voting only on Election Day, Van Drew, who represents Wildwood in Congress, encouraged the MAGA movement, this time, to vote early.
“I want every man and woman who is here, every political leader who is here, to make sure that we have a record amount of early voting,” he said.