Trump chooses Michigan for first 'rally' of his second term
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President Donald Trump will hold the first ‘rally’ of his second term on the eve of his first 100 days in office in a Michigan swing district.

The upcoming trip was initially reported by The Detroit News. It is scheduled for Tuesday following President Donald Trump’s quick visit to Rome this weekend to attend the funeral of Pope Francis.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt posted to X about the trip Wednesday night.

‘President Trump is excited to return to the great state of Michigan next Tuesday, where he will rally in Macomb County to celebrate the FIRST 100 DAYS!’ Leavitt wrote. 

Michigan is one of the three ‘blue wall’ states Trump turned red during his shock 2016 victory over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

President Joe Biden grabbed them back in 2020 – along with the traditional Republican states of Georgia and Arizona.

In 2024, Trump won all those states back, flipped Nevada and retained North Carolina, to win all seven swing states over Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris.

President Donald Trump is heading to Macomb County, Michigan Tuesday, which is the eve of his second term's 100-day mark

President Donald Trump is heading to Macomb County, Michigan Tuesday, which is the eve of his second term’s 100-day mark 

President Donald Trump's final 2024 campaign rally was held in Grand Rapids, Michigan - the same city and state where he held it in 2016 and 2020

President Donald Trump’s final 2024 campaign rally was held in Grand Rapids, Michigan – the same city and state where he held it in 2016 and 2020

Trump last traveled to Michigan for a final campaign rally in Grand Rapids, after also holding court in North Carolina and Pennsylvania on the Monday before Election Day.

At the time, he got nostalgic about it being his last big political rally as a candidate for president of the United States.

‘This has been an incredible journey. It’s very sad in a way. This is the last one,’ he told the Michigan crowd.

He had also held his final rallies of 2016 and 2020 in Grand Rapids.

Macomb County is significant because while voters there chose President Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, it flipped to Trump in 2016 and has stayed with him since.

The county stretches northeast of Detroit through the suburbs and into rural areas, hugging a portion of Lake St. Clair.

Since entering office in January, Trump has eschewed the kind of day trips Biden would regularly do. 

Early on he visited both North Carolina and California to survey damage from Hurricane Helene and the wildfires, respectively.

President Donald Trump has mostly just traveled to Mar-a-Lago weekends in his first 100 days but will make his first trip abroad this weekend and then hold a 'rally' in Michigan Tuesday

President Donald Trump has mostly just traveled to Mar-a-Lago weekends in his first 100 days but will make his first trip abroad this weekend and then hold a ‘rally’ in Michigan Tuesday

Most of his travel since then has been to Mar-a-Lago on weekends.

He’s also attended a handful of sporting events including the Super Bowl and the Daytona 500. 

Trump was originally supposed to make his first foreign trip one to the Middle East – as Saudi Arabia was the first country he visited as president in 2017 – but the Pope’s death on Monday changed things.

The White House did announce the dates this week of the Middle Eastern swing. Trump will travel to  Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates from May 13 to 16. 

Despite not being a candidate, there have been hints that Trump wasn’t going to give up his beloved rallies.

In a recent interview, Secret Service Director Sean Curran told Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara for her Fox News program that Secret Service agents were getting training on how to handle the president attending large-scale events, admitting that it was ‘something that our agency wasn’t quite used to.’

‘We are training our agents and officers to be prepared for those large-scale events that have become new to us and so often,’ Curran said. 

Trump, of course, was nearly assassinated at an outdoor rally in Butler, Pennsylvania in July, though resumed large-scale rallies before Election Day. 

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