Former President Donald Trump promised Thursday evening to “make New York City great again” during a raucous rally in the South Bronx, his first major campaign event in the state of his birth since 2016.
“This is some turnout,” Trump told a rowdy crowd in Crotona Park. “We have thousands of people outside the gate.”
The event was permitted to host up to 3,500 people, but thousands more gathered outside security checkpoints in the 127.5-acre public park in the hope of catching a glimpse of the 45th president or a snatch of his remarks.
Trump campaign senior adviser Chris LaCivita claimed to The Post that 20,000 people had RSVPed to the event, thought no immediate crowd estimate was made available by the NYPD.
In his remarks, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee lamented that “Joe Biden is not getting the job done for the Bronx” and “not getting the job done for New York.”
“Our subways are squalid and unsafe, the ceiling tiles are falling down, and they look worse than a Third World country,” continued Trump, 77. “The medians of our highways are crumbling, our sidewalks are littered with garbage bottles and trash.
“But worst of all are the discarded needles from people that so desperately are in need of help,” he went on.
“And we have mobs of migrants fighting our police officers and
giving America the middle finger,
but we are not going to let this continue,” Trump declared.
“Joe Biden is the worst president in the history of our country,” the former president added later in his remarks. “He has no sense – doesn’t know what he’s doing, is grossly incompetent.”
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