Donald Trump interrupted a campaign speech in Wisconsin to plead for help on Saturday as some of his supporters began fainting in the packed audience.
More than 7,000 people turned out to see the former president hold his fourth campaign rally in the battleground state at the Mosinee airport.
Many were bundled up on a cold Wisconsin day, but the sun beat down on the airport tarmac as the Republican candidate spoke for more than 90 minutes.
Some raised their hands in prayer as paramedics tried to insert an IV into a struggling woman who had fallen to the ground.
“Leave room for them to get out and hopefully get back before we’re done,” Trump told them. “Because as far as I’m concerned, we can stay here all day.”
More than 7,000 people turned out to see the former president hold his fourth campaign rally in the battleground state at the Mosinee airport.
The former president raised the alarm after hearing cries of “Doctor!” from the audience
The former president was promising to abolish the Department of Education when he heard someone shout “Doctor, doctor!” from the crowd.
“Doctor, please,” Trump said from the podium. “Doctor?” Thank you very much. Please take your time. Thank you, doctor.
“We have the best service here,” he added to applause as paramedics made their way through the crowd.
“It’s amazing how they manage. There are people who stay here for three days, so it’s amazing that things like this don’t happen more often.”
Many were bundled up on a cold Wisconsin day, but the sun beat down on the airport tarmac as the Republican candidate spoke for more than 90 minutes.
But they always come out well, they are excited about what we are doing because we are taking back our country from these lunatics. Take your time, doctor. Thank you very much.
The other victims were escorted to the sideline and examined by medical professionals at the event, which opened with a performance by country singer Gretchen Wilson.
“Doctors, thank you very much, we appreciate it,” Trump told them from the stage. “If anything happens, let us know.”
The former president apologized for speaking from behind a plexiglass screen following the assassination attempt on him during a July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
“It’s kind of a tough life. It’s not the easiest,” he told his audience. “You get shot at, other things happen, other routine events occur. But we’re going to do it for a reason.
“A reporter recently said to me, ‘Sir, if you had to do it over again, would you do it again? ‘ I said, ‘Absolutely, because we’re going to make America great again. And that’s better than my life. ‘”
The crowd trouble in Mosinee came just two weeks after the former president emerged from behind his bulletproof screen to help an elderly woman who had collapsed at his rally in Asheboro, North Carolina.
Country singer Gretchen Wilson had opened the event and endorsed the Republican as Secret Service snipers watched from nearby rooftops.
Some fans had been waiting for hours when the former president arrived on his plane.
It’s been just over two weeks since Trump hugged a supporter in distress after she fainted at his rally in North Carolina, telling her: “Hey, honey, are you okay? Drink lots of water.”
“I’m just an old lady and I had to come and see you,” she said.
Trump watched her collapse as he spoke in the blazing sun at Asheboro Regional Airport at his first outdoor rally since the assassination attempt.
“Hi, honey, are you okay? Drink lots of water,” he told the 78-year-old woman.
She looked stunned as she came face to face with the speaker, telling him, “Oh my God, I’m fine.”
“I’m just an old lady and I had to come and see you,” she added.
Trump had been talking about how he sponsored athletes during his business days, but stopped when people in the crowd were heard shouting “doctor!”
“A doctor, please…” Trump shouted from the podium before addressing the crowd.
The former president speculated that high temperatures were the cause, saying before entering the crowd that “it’s very hot here, I can feel it.”
He praised his fans for camping out for so long to be able to see him at his events and told them:
‘You know, they arrive two or three days early and it’s a lot of stress, we lose them.
‘The only ones we don’t lose are the Joes in the front row, I don’t know what it is about them, they have something here.’
