Trump the campaign trail showman returns on ‘Thank you’ tour

Why he was thankful for police that came out to support him.

Trump repeated both ideas Thursday and dismissed the notion that a president shouldn’t pressure companies to keep jobs in the U.S.

Those calls have sparked controversy with reports that Trump discussed his businesses with foreign leaders. Instead, he rehashed and gloated about defeating his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton.

That speech, and the event in OH, gave more evidence that the president-elect “prefers campaigning to governing”, as the Huffington Post’s associate politics editor Marina Fang put it. He’s continued to level false statements, claiming without evidence that millions of people voted illegally in the election. The company attributed its decision to the incoming Trump administration and financial incentives provided by IN, which is something of a reversal, since earlier offers from the state had failed to sway Carrier.

“He was a very unconventional candidate”, House Speaker Paul Ryan said.

Trump will tour the factory with his running mate Mike Pence – who, as the outgoing governor of IN, was well-situated to aid negotiations – and then the president-elect will give a speech about the deal, aides said. He often modulates his tone to his setting and frequently tries to curry favor with his audience by telling them what he thinks they want to hear.

But now Trump is turning to establishment figures to fill critical positions in his administration.

The rally in Cincinnati was the second stop on a victory lap through the Midwest on Thursday, coming hours after Trump saluted workers, owners and himself at a Carrier plant in Indiana. “He absolutely has a lot of personal charisma”.

Realistically, unless 38 electors change their vote from Trump to Hillary Clinton, if Trump had presumably won their respective state, it is very unlikely that the action will actually change the outcome of this election.

Recall that Trump during and after his campaign had said that he would stop all Muslims from entering the United States of America.

“You went out and you pounded the pavement…and propelled to victory a grassroots movement the likes of which the world has never seen before”, Trump told the people of OH gathered at his event.

“I’m here today for one main reason: to say thank you to Ohio”, Trump told the crowd. This speech was no different than others he gave on his campaign trail. He boasted about size of his victory and repeatedly bashed the media. Trump stepped away from the podium and looked back as the crowd joined behind him in the chant, waving and pumping a fist in the air. “Ok, I love this stuff”.

“The African-American community was so great to me in this election; they were so great to me; unbelievable!” We didn’t break it, we shattered that sucker. “That poor wall is busted up”.

Trump opened his rally with a familiar trope: gawking at the crowd and lamenting the difficulty that supporters were having traveling to the arena.

He even stunned his own aides when he announced the Mattis pick from the stage. Despite being president-elect, it seems that particular pivot has yet to come. The Rust Belt states of Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania – all of which President Barack Obama won at least once – were key to Trump’s victory, as white working class voters responded to his promises to crack down on undocumented immigrants and restore manufacturing jobs lost to the forces of globalization.

The two events were Trump’s first public appearances since winning the election last month.