Donald Trump expects his Friday campaign event in Mobile, Ala. to be “yuge.”
Appearing on a Mobile radio station with host Sean Sullivan, Trump touted his recently released immigration plan and said they expect over 30,000 people to pack Ladd-Peebles Stadium for the Friday event.
“This is just an amazing place,” Trump told Sullivan. “And it’s my people. We’re all workers. We work hard. We think hard. And we love the country.”
“It’s become a happening, it’s becoming an event,” Trump said, adding that they were originally only planning for 500 people.
The event was originally supposed to be held at the Mobile Civic Center Theater, but the event was switched over to the stadium in an announcement Wednesday night. The stadium has the ability to seat 50,000 people for a concert-like event and 40,000 for a football game. The stadium has played host to the GoDaddy Bowl and the Senior Bowl in recent years, while also being the home field for University of South Alabama.
Trump also told the host that he could make his grand entrance via helicopter, but that he probably will not do so, admitting it “might be a little bit too much.”
Trump claimed vindication on birthright citizenship, a practice his immigration plan would end for the children of illegal aliens.
“You know, the scholars are all coming out now saying I was right … that was actually originally enacted, I think in the 1860s … having to do with slavery,” Trump asserted. “Now they’re all reporting that, no we don’t have to do this because it was so unfair.”
