Former President Donald Trump flipped burgers and tossed a few footballs on Saturday as he tried to bolster his significant lead with Iowa caucus voters.
The front-runner in the Republican presidential primary appeared at the Iowa-Iowa State football game.
As Tampa Free Press reported Saturday, Trump, clad in his trademark blue suit and solid red power tie, visited the fraternity house of Alpha Gamma Rho, which focuses on agriculture, and tossed the crowd footballs lined up on a beer pong table.
A video of the moment showed Trump autographing the football before he heaved it at the crowd, which chanted “Donald, Donald, Donald.”
Trump also grabbed a spatula and manned the grill where burgers sizzled.
“This is some turnout; I guess the youth likes Trump, but we love Iowa. We just left South Dakota last night; it was an amazing evening,” Trump told reporters as he left the Alpha Gamma Rho house, where he also took a photo with its members.
“We got a wonderful endorsement from [South Dakota GOP Gov. Kristi Noem], and we’re here, and the reception has been incredible, really incredible,” Trump added.
The New York Post reported on Saturday that Trump still holds a commanding lead in Iowa. The latest poll, conducted by Iowa State University and the polling firm Civiqs, revealed that 51% of voters indicated Trump is their first choice in the upcoming caucuses.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis placed second with 14%, while former U.N. Ambassador and South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley received 10%.
Trump seemed at home with the college kids, and it’s not the first time he came across as a natural in mingling with everyday Americans.
Back in February Trump visited Eat Palestine, Ohio, the site of a train derailment that became one of the worst environmental disasters in modern memory, and appeared in a local McDonald’s where he bought food for first-responders and residents.
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“I know this menu better than you do,” he told the clerk. “I probably know it better than anybody in here.”
In July, he showed up at a Dairy Queen in Council Bluffs, Iowa. “Everybody wants a Blizzard. What the hell is a Blizzard?” Trump said as he mingled with the ice cream fans, according to NBC News. “Take care of the people, OK? Will you take care of ‘em for me, and we’ll do the Blizzard thing, alright?” he added.
Back in October 2015, 13 months before he clinched the presidency the first time, Trump visited T.I.’s Mystere Theater in Las Vegas, where, as Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist John L. Smith noted, he was a “charming comic one moment, a barroom bloviator the next, who “spent more than an hour laying on the charm and vilifying the usual suspects: Obamacare, the media, his GOP opponents, Hillary Clinton and illegal immigrants.”
“‘Billionaire Everyman’ is a winner with the end of the [Republican] party that believes America’s going to hell and in need of a strong father figure,” Smith added.
By the way, Iowa won 20-13 on Saturday.
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