The president autographed hats, Bibles and other items during a tour of an area leveled by this week’s devastating storms.
By Josh Dawsey Josh Dawsey Reporter covering the White House Email Bio Follow March 8 at 6:38 PM BEAUREGARD, Ala. — President Trump toured a swath of tornado-ravaged Alabama Friday by helicopter and SUV, inspecting the devastation of a rural neighborhood where 23 were killed in tornadoes last weekend — with houses stripped to their foundations, branches twisted on top of one another in sinewy piles and mattresses and home supplies perched in trees.
“I’d vote for him again,” said Ada Ingram, a local resident, in the annex of Providence Baptist Church serving as a shelter. She said proudly that Trump had signed Bibles belonging to her sister and a 12-year old volunteer, who drew uproarious cheers when he posed for a picture with Trump. She called the president a “godsend.
But Trump vowed on Twitter earlier this week that Alabama would receive “A Plus treatment” — and he was flanked by elected officials and adoring crowds as he landed. President Trump was presented with Grimes’s dirty motorcycle jacket found in the cleanup. Grimes was well-regarded in the community and was part of a motorcycling club, said Michelle Key, the owner and editor of the Opelika Observer, a local weekly newspaper.
He came out to raucous cheers from the crowd, with hundreds of phones simultaneously thrust in the air to capture footage of the president.
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