Trump Visits Kenosha Tuesday: Time, Schedule

KENOSHA, WI — President Donald Trump landed Tuesday afternoon at Waukegan Airport, and a throng of supporters and critics gathered along the president's motorcade route in addition to outside the Kenosha County Courthouse in advance of his arrival in Downtown Kenosha Tuesday.

According to White House press pool reports, there were about 100 or so people at the airport exit, many waving Trump/Pence signs. Further down the road was a mix of supporters of POTUS and people waving Black Lives Matter signs. One person held up a homemade sign reading “Liar” and waved it at motorcade.

Along the entire route was a mix of people waving Black Lives Matter signs and many Trump supporters waving Trump 2020 signs. Essentially every intersection had a gathering of people.

Trump's Visit, Schedule

Trump is scheduled to appear in Kenosha on Tuesday for a variety of functions in the wake of the Aug. 23 police shooting of Jacob Blake.

All told, Trump's time in Kenosha is expected to be just shy of two hours as he flies into an airport in Waukegan, Illinois, and heads north into Wisconsin's southernmost city.

While in Wisconsin, Trump is scheduled to take a 20-minute look at a week's worth of property damage, a 15-minute tour of the local Emergency Operations Center and participate in a roundtable discussion about community safety that is expected to last less than an hour.

Here is the president's schedule for Tuesday, as released by the White House Office of the Press Secretary.

11:55 a.m. President Trump arrives at the Waukegan National airport. Ten minutes later, he is scheduled to leave the airport en route to Kenosha.

By 12:35 p.m., Trump is scheduled to arrive in Kenosha prior to surveying property damage as a result of last week's civil unrest.

From 12:40 p.m. to 1 p.m., Trump is scheduled to survey the damage.

According to Trump's schedule, he is expected to conclude surveying local damage and appear at Mary D. Bradford High School starting at 1:10 p.m.

According to Trump's schedule, he is expected to tour the Emergency Operations Center by 1:15 p.m.

At 1:30 p.m., Trump is scheduled to participate in a roundtable discussion on Wisconsin Community Safety, where he is expected to give remarks.

By 2:20 p.m., Trump is scheduled to leave Kenosha on his way back to Waukegan.

Opponents Didn't Want Him Here

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers sent a letter to the president last week urging him not to visit, citing a community already emotionally and physically wracked by two shooting incidents and days of protests and property damage.

"I, along with other community leaders who have reached out, are concerned about what your presence will mean for Kenosha and our state," Evers wrote. "I am concerned your presence will only hinder our healing. I am concerned your presence will only delay our work to overcome division and move forward together."

Opposition to Trump's Wisconsin visit spread south of the border to Illinois, where Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot expressed her disapproval of the president's visit.

"If I believed he would come with a message of healing and unity, that would be one thing. But what see from him over and over again — and particularly as part of his re-election bid — is to exploit tensions and division and that's the last thing that Kenosha needs, it's the last thing Wisconsin needs, and it's the last thing our region and our country needs," Lightfoot said in a Monday afternoon news conference. "So I understand and agree with the call from the governor and Wisconsin and other local elected officials from Wisconsin asking the president not to go to Kenosha at this time. We need to figure out how we can build bridges to reach each other. We need to get rid of the divisive rhetoric — all that is doing is deepening the despair that so many people feel."

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