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Why the Rust Belt just gave Donald Trump a hero’s welcome
NY Post ^ | July 25, 2017 | Salena Zito

Posted on 07/25/2017 10:32:50 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom

This town was on fire.

By 1 in the afternoon on Tuesday every main thoroughfare in downtown Youngstown was filled with happy people heading towards the Covelli Centre. Folks dressed in red, white and blue crisscrossed the main grids as vendors sold “Make America Great Again” ball caps, American flags and bottles of water.

Thousands had filled the gravel parking lot to wait until the doors opened at 4, license plates revealing they had traveled as far as Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania and West Virginia to see the president speak directly to them in this Rust Belt city.

Music played on almost every corner as Donald Skowron, a retired Youngstown police officer, drove his green pickup truck up and down Champion Street — in the back, a 6-by-8-foot homemade wooden Trump–Pence sign straddling the bed of the truck, with two large Trump flags flowing from the top.

“I am very happy with the President’s performance so far,” said Skowron. “He has set the exact tone I was looking for, although I’ll be honest I wish he didn’t tweet all of the time, but that is hardly anything to complain.”

Skowron said he is encouraged with reading about the Trump’s constant meetings with industry leaders as well as union and trade members in trying to understand how to create jobs, “We have a President invested in trying to navigate between the people who create jobs and the men and women doing the jobs and how repealing regulations help both.”

Six months after Donald J. Trump was inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States he received a hero’s welcome in this town.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: fakenews; maga; ohio; trump
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The MSM hates these rallies because they can't be influenced by slanted polls supposedly showing disapproval of Trump's policies. You would have thought by now that the Washington establishment would have figured out that nobody outside of their little bubble cares what they think.
1 posted on 07/25/2017 10:32:50 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

melania went there with the donald, wow

2 posted on 07/25/2017 10:36:26 PM PDT by SteveH
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYpDJrMZt0Y


3 posted on 07/25/2017 10:38:39 PM PDT by SteveH
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Donald Trump is the President and Leader of the United States, period. They cannot take that away.


4 posted on 07/25/2017 10:50:11 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucifiedc)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

President Trump definitely is thee true HERO of we the people!!!
That’s the only fact that actually matters.


5 posted on 07/25/2017 10:53:22 PM PDT by edie1960
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

>> The MSM hates these rallies

I regret the Country fails to recognize that the MSM is Disney, Comcast, AT&T, and Viacom. But I suppose it’s therapeutic to protest the pawns.


6 posted on 07/25/2017 10:56:25 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: SteveH

The Rust Belt loves him. The Boy Scouts love him. Only the pollsters hate him.


7 posted on 07/25/2017 11:05:06 PM PDT by wizwor
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
Wow. How bad is it when a billionaire real estate tycoon connects with the working class and the media can't? How out of touch can anyone be before that happens?

Sometimes with the Dems I feel like I'm talking to children. Yes, jobs are very important to the working class. That would be the "working" part of that, yes? They don't want welfare, because they're the working class. They want work. And they don't want to be told "You didn't build that" when they did. And they don't want to be told they're privileged because they sweated for everything they've got. And they don't want to be told their country isn't great because it is.

And then we get idiot questions such as "What could Trump's appeal possibly be? What? What?" You just have to shake your head and wonder what planet the media are from, because it certainly isn't this one.

8 posted on 07/25/2017 11:17:34 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Trump has only one thing going for him....The 100% support of 65,000,000 Americans.....the ones that make this country great everyday of their lives!!!


9 posted on 07/25/2017 11:27:36 PM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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Donald, PLEASE get the illegals the hell out of Florida, their disrespect for American citizens and disgusting habits in the sanctuary cities are killing us. We didn’t work all our lives only to be given the finger every day by invading hordes who live next to us and enjoy harming us because no one will stop them or enforce the laws on the books. They will NEVER share our values.


10 posted on 07/25/2017 11:39:56 PM PDT by 4Runner
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To: edie1960

Ditto


11 posted on 07/25/2017 11:58:38 PM PDT by Dapper 26
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To: Billthedrill

Well said.


12 posted on 07/26/2017 2:38:57 AM PDT by DCmarcher-976453
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As the year progresses, Trump should name the demonRAT senators and congress critter in the state where he is attending each rally, and call on the people to vote against each critter, BY NAME.

Go to Ohio and name sherrod brown, Michigan and name debbie stabinow, West Virginia and name joe manchin etc. This will get their attention and maybe some cooperation.

13 posted on 07/26/2017 3:48:39 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Kill all mooselimb, terrorist savages, with extreme prejudice! Deus Vult!)
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Wow. How bad is it when a billionaire real estate tycoon connects with the working class and the media can’t? How out of touch can anyone be before that happens?


Long ago, those in the press could sympathize with the middle class because the press was the middle class. The press was on the outside; an observer of the power class. Think of someone like Mike Royko of the Chicago Tribune.

Now, many in the MSM are a part of the power class. They’re the insiders. They’re ranch-raised in D.C. and have no idea what it’s like to work a middle class job and struggle to make ends meet. They look down on those in the middle class with contempt and have no sympathy for them. They are now part of the elites.


14 posted on 07/26/2017 3:54:17 AM PDT by Flick Lives (#CNNblackmail)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

I hope soon Trump will do a rally in Tampa...(another rally place should be in New England to see how many would visit...)


15 posted on 07/26/2017 4:09:53 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
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To: Billthedrill

All excellent points! Send or tweet that post to all MSM and the DNC. On second thought, don’t clue in the Dems; let them continue down the path they’re comfortable with and they’ll continue losing.


16 posted on 07/26/2017 4:22:00 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("Negative people make healthy people sick." - Roger Ailes)
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To: USS Alaska

YES


17 posted on 07/26/2017 4:22:47 AM PDT by smileyface (Things looking up in RED PA! I love President Trump!)
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To: USS Alaska

“Trump should name the demonRAT senators and congress critter in the state where he is attending each rally, and call on the people to vote against each critter, BY NAME.”

Also include the names of the disloyal GOP critters who are trying to take down Trump and America.


18 posted on 07/26/2017 4:26:36 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("Negative people make healthy people sick." - Roger Ailes)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Wow! A terrific rally! And an article that does not focus on the very, very few protesters who tried to disrupt. I should look at the NYPost more often.


19 posted on 07/26/2017 4:31:11 AM PDT by Freee-dame (Best election ever.)
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“Trump should name the demonRAT senators and congress critter in the state where he is attending each rally, and call on the people to vote against each critter, BY NAME.”

And tell them to get involved by working the polls, informing people or running for office. Make it clear politics is not only for insider elite.

20 posted on 07/26/2017 4:44:17 AM PDT by Betty Jane
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