Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) is about to hitch President Trump throughout a Tuesday go to on the Selfridge Air Nationwide Guard Base within the Nice Lakes State, the White Home mentioned.
The looks comes simply a few weeks after Whitmer took warmth from either side of the aisle for a White Home go to earlier this month, her second for the reason that inauguration. After Trump introduced the governor into the Oval Workplace throughout an government order signing involving her state, a photograph of Whitmer showing to cover her face behind folders garnered ridicule and underscored the robust political terrain of the Democrats’ working relationship with the president.
One of many subjects she aimed to debate with Trump throughout that journey was funding for the Selfridge Air Nationwide Guard Base, the place the president will make his first cease in Michigan on Tuesday.
The journey marks Trump’s first go to to the battleground state, which he flipped pink in November, since a rally in Grand Rapids the day earlier than the election. It additionally marks his first main home journey of his second time period.
Trump is then set to cease by Macomb County’s Neighborhood School Sports activities Expo Middle and maintain a rally to rejoice hitting the benchmark of his first 100 days again in workplace.
Michigan has been rocked by Trump’s dramatic tariff strikes, because the state boasts an enormous vehicle trade and borders Canada.
“There’s a lot of reason for the American consumer, the American CEO, the American small-business owner to be confident and optimistic about this president and where we’re headed,” White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt mentioned in a briefing with reporters forward of Trump’s journey.
“You will hear more from the president himself later this evening. … He’ll make a stop at the Air Force base with Gov. Whitmer and then we will head to a rally later tonight where we’ll hear more from him directly.”
