On Monday, President Donald J. Trump returned to Iowa to deliver a policy-focused speech to thousands of supporters at the Adler Theater in Davenport. Despite frigid temperatures, thousands of Iowans began lining up to welcome President Trump eleven hours before his long-awaited arrival.
Iowans from 77 counties line up to welcome President Donald J. Trump to Davenport
President Trump began the day by joining NEWSRADIO 1040 radio host Simon Conway to preview his trip and highlight his America First policies that have benefited all Americans.
In anticipation of President Trump’s return to the Hawkeye State, 3,500 patriots packed the Adler Theatre, while thousands spilled outside the venue. In all, Team Trump collected more than 16,500 grassroots registrations, representing 77 of Iowa’s counties. President Trump drew nearly 10 times the crowd of his nearest rival, who visited the area last week.
More than 3,500 people filled the Adler Theater to hear President Trump
In his speech, President Trump emphasized the importance of protecting students from the ideology unleashed in schools and empowering parents to make educational decisions in the best interest of their children.
USA Today: “Trump, who spoke on a range of issues before turning to education, said he will cut federal funding to any school that promotes ‘critical race theory,’ the ‘crazy transgender’ or ‘any other inappropriate racial, sexual or political content about our children’”.
“”The other day I said I’m going to bring parental rights back into our school system, and the place went crazy,” he said. Monday’s crowd also reacted with cheers, whistles and applause when he declared, “How As president, I will fight to expand this right to every state in the United States.”
President Trump also touted his long record of fighting and winning for America’s farmers and laid out exactly what he will do when he returns to the White House.
“Within hours of my inauguration, I will cancel all of Biden’s policies that are brutalizing our farmers, all of them,” President Trump said to a standing ovation. “I will appoint a special team to attack the high price of fertilizers – we will take care of it.
“Not only will we increase ethanol production in our country, but we will export ethanol around the world. And just as I have done for four years in a row, I will protect Iowa ethanol and go after anyone who wants to destroy it. .”
“With the crazy Green New Deal, Joe Biden is trying to totally kill Iowa ethanol. Conversely, I fought for Iowa ethanol like no other president in history.”
President Trump promised to hold China accountable and strengthen American trade.
“I will implement a four-year plan to phase out all Chinese imports of essential goods and gain full independence from China,” President Trump said to cheers from the crowd.
He also promised to immediately reverse Joe Biden’s radical and senseless policies that are destroying the American agricultural industry.
“Under Joe Biden, it’s been a nonstop war on American agriculture, you know,” President Trump said, noting that his trade deal delivered $28 billion to American farmers. “Biden reimposed America’s water rule. He reimposed it on his first day in office. He’s trying to raise farm taxes, reinstate the death tax, and fertilizer prices have gone up almost 300% Net farm income is expected to drop 16% this year alone.
After his speech, President Trump answered questions from the audience and talked about the issues that are important to their communities.
When asked about bringing manufacturing jobs back to America, President Trump said: “I saved a lot of different manufacturers. If you look at Whirlpool in Ohio, they had that problem. South Korea was dumping, and China , thousands and thousands, millions of units at a price that wasn’t going to work. I finished that. I put a 50% tariff. This part of Ohio is booming today. These companies are doing very well. We have to look individuals. We will be able to deal with this situation very easily. Do not forget that we have a power called economy. The problem is that we have people who do not know how to use it for collective benefit. But I know how to use it.”
While in Davenport, President Trump made a surprise visit to the Machine Shed restaurant to greet local supporters. At the restaurant, President Trump ordered pot roast dinners to be delivered to the Davenport fire station and ordered several pies to be flown to Florida.
Roger Barwick, a maintenance worker at the restaurant, was thrilled to finally meet President Trump. “It was great,” he told WQAD-TV. “Used to see him on TV. Great to see him in person. I think he’s going to win, I think he can get us out of the big debt we have.”
“I think it says a lot that, you know, an individual with their title and you know, the prestige that they take time out of their schedule to stop and see people’s everyday lives,” said Matthew Kaperka.
Ahead of President Trump’s visit, he unveiled a list of key endorsements from eastern Iowa, including former acting U.S. Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, former Congressman Rod Blum, Sens. Iowa state Jeff Reichman and Charlie McClintock, state representatives Bobby Kaufmann, Craig Johnson and Anne Osmundson. , Mark Cisneros, Steven Bradley, Derek Wulf, Heather Hora, Brad Sherman, and Cindy Golding.