President Donald Trump told reporters Friday that he “never gets tired,” as he departed the White House for a rally in Mobile, Alabama, capping a stretch of travel that has taken him through Texas, Oklahoma and, this weekend, Ohio, with the November 3 midterm elections approaching.
“I never get tired. If I got tired, it would be a big story, I can tell you,” Trump said on the South Lawn before leaving for Alabama, where he was scheduled to speak at a rally Friday night and return to Washington the same evening.
The Alabama stop followed a two-state trip the day before. On Thursday, Trump visited Peterbilt Motors just outside Denton, Texas, where he toured the facility and spoke to the crowd for nearly an hour, wrapping up at 5:40 p.m. local time.
From there, he was due to fly to a rally in Durant, Oklahoma, but bad weather grounded the plan. Instead, the president and his team made the roughly hour-and-fifteen-minute drive by motorcade, with his limousine, known as “the Beast,” reaching speeds close to 100 miles per hour.
Trump told the crowd in Durant how the decision came together once he learned flying wasn’t an option.
“I said, ‘How fast does the beast travel?’ They said, ‘We can go close to 100 miles an hour.’ I said, ‘Get your asses in that car. We’re going to Oklahoma. We’re going to Oklahoma!'”
Trump arrived back at the White House just before 3:00 a.m. Friday morning. He is scheduled to travel again on Saturday, this time to Dayton, Ohio, where he will deliver evening remarks.
The pace echoes a similarly packed stretch last month, when Trump delivered closing remarks at the Republican National Convention in Dallas, Texas, on the night of September 10 and returned to Washington around 2:30 a.m. The next morning he spoke at a September 11 memorial ceremony at the Pentagon before flying to Ireland that same night.
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