In a city with a significant health care industry, he was expected to deliver extensive remarks on the Republican health care plan and to commemorate the 250th birthday of the populist 19th century President Andrew Jackson.
Nashville is also seen as one of the leading battleground cities on charter schools; Trump was also expected to talk about school choice.
The speech, however, was far more like his fiery campaign rhetoric than his more measured policy-heavy speech during his joint address of Congress where he had a dig at his major rival, Hilary Clinton.
Trump got a huge amount of applause when he talked about Clinton during the rally. At one point he cited law about the president and said “he or she,” and emphasized “she” again. Then he said, “Fortunately it will not be Hillary she.” Chants of “Lock Her Up!” filled the room after he made that joke
Trump criticized the latest court ruling against him regarding his temporary ban on refugees and nationals from six countries in the Middle East and Africa.
On March 15, a federal judge in Hawaii granted a temporary restraining order on Trump’s revised directive.
“This is a watered-down version … The need for my executive order is clear,” Trump said of his blocked executive order.
Trump said “there will be consequences” if a company wants to leave America, layoff workers and then ship new products back to the United States.
“In the first two job reports since I took the oath of office, we’ve already added half a million new jobs,” Trump said.
Trump has long challenged the legitimacy of the monthly unemployment numbers issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.