Donald Trump, Jr., son of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, arrived in Fayetteville by helicopter Oct. 28. His remarks about his father and the upcoming election were wildly applauded by more than 300 people in attendance.
Trump’s helicopter landed just in front of the Republican headquarters building on North Glynn Street. Waiting on the grounds were a wealth of his father’s supporters who assembled with less than a 24-hour notice.
To say the crowd was jubilant would be an understatement. The completely packed meeting room was so jammed that walking room inside the building was nearly impossible. With his entry into the room that easily held 200 or more, Trump was greeted with loud cheering and scores holding cell phones aloft to get a photo of the candidate’s son.
Trump Jr. in his comments zeroed in on both Democrats and establishment Republicans.
“They want everyone to look different and be the same,” he said of Democrats. “We have the opportunity to shake things up. This is not a campaign anymore. It’s a movement.”
Playing off that idea, Trump Jr. also had remarks for the rise of his father’s campaign that took nearly all in the establishment media and political world by surprise.
“We had close to a zero chance and we took the risk,” the younger Trump said of this father’s seemingly impossible odds of becoming the Republican nominee.
Many in the crowd said they remembered that, just short of two years ago, the mainstream conservative national media had all but ordained one of its own as the presumptive nominee. But everything changed once Republican voters had their say in the primaries. Democrats, too, had to adjust.
“We have the opportunity to put someone in office with the guts to take on the establishment on both sides. When they are all against you, you know you’re doing something right,” Trump Jr. said.
Trump Jr. noted that the American people have not had a “voice” in decades.
“My father is not a talker. He is a man of action,” Trump said to the roar of an approving crowd. “He is a man who has created jobs.”
Speaking of his father and his supporters, Trump Jr. praised people who have the conviction that a change is needed and who stand up for the principles they believe in.
His brief remarks concluded, the candidate’s son likely expected that his short walk to the helicopter, approximately 100 feet away, would take longer than the speech he had just concluded. It did. The walk to the helicopter was populated by the large number of people who could not press into the building and by those who had been inside and wanted to shake his hand.
It was noteworthy that, aside from the usual local Republicans who customarily attend Fayette GOP meetings and the large number of adults wanting to hear what the candidate’s son had to say, there was a significant number of young people in the audience, waving signs and cheering “the movement.”
