President Donald Trump brought a man wearing a suit showing bricks onto the stage during a rally in Pennsylvania on May 20.
The man was also sporting Trump’s signature red “Make America Great Again” hat.
Trump was telling the crowd that 500 miles of the southern border wall would be built by the end of 2020, prompting a chant of “build the wall” from the crowd. Surveying the audience, the president noticed the man and pointed him out.
“Can we get him up here?” Trump asked, reported the right-leaning Fox News website. “Get him up here! Look at this guy!”
The man made his way to the stage as the crowd applauded.
“Now we know who he’s voting for,” Trump said. “He says, ‘I’m from San Diego.’ Do you believe that? ‘I’m from San Diego and we need that wall.'”
One version of the suit goes for $80 online.
The president later noted that a wall separating San Diego from Mexico helped prevent illegal immigrants from surging over the border there.
According to The Epoch Times, the 46-mile-long barrier cut down the number of apprehensions of illegal immigrants in San Diego from more than 628,000 in fiscal year 1986 to its current number of around 30,000 a year.
Touts 2020 Chances
Trump told the crowd that he would win in 2020 while slamming former Vice President Joe Biden, telling the Pennsylvanians that Biden had abandoned them by representing Delaware in the Senate. Biden moved to Delaware with his family when he was growing up.
Along with touting his own prospects, Trump championed Republican congressional candidate Fred Keller over Democrat Marc Friedenberg for a Tuesday special election for an open House seat.
“We’ve got to win tomorrow, Fred,” Trump told a cheering rally crowd at a hangar at Williamsport Regional Airport.
The president, who spoke in the open air with Air Force One behind him, highlighted the economy’s performance under his leadership and suggested those numbers make him virtually unbeatable.
“Politics is a crazy world, but when you have the best employment numbers in history, when you have the best unemployment numbers in history … I don’t know, how the hell do you lose this election, right?” Trump said.
The current unemployment rate of 3.6 percent is the lowest since 1969.
Keller spoke, offering a rousing endorsement of Trump and saying he wants to go to Congress to be a vote for the president. Keller told Trump the people of this region of Pennsylvania “have been behind you since day one, and, Mr. President, our support for you is as strong today as it ever was.”
“In 2016, Pennsylvania put Donald Trump over the top. And in 2020, we’re going to do it again,” Keller said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
