Trump Supporters Happy To Hear Him Talk Jobs, Unity In Inaugural Address

WASHINGTON — David Monaham drove down to Washington, D.C.. from Ohio on Thursday night to see Donald Trump’s swearing-in, and he came away impressed with the President’s inaugural address.

Monaham works in an auto parts factory and has seen others nearby lose their jobs when factories close. He was especially happy to hear Trump pledge to keep jobs in the United States.

“He talked about the rusting factories and about how he’s going to revitalize the country,” Monaham told TPM. “Our jobs are walking away overseas.”

He called Trump a “man of action.”

“He’s for the people. He’s for working for us. He stressed that fact,” Monaham told TPM.

After Trump’s speech, some of his supporters stayed nearby to watch the parade later in the afternoon. Some got stuck in security checkpoints and did not hear the whole inaugural address.

Wayne Rochkind, who travelled to D.C. from Montana, only caught the end of Trump’s speech. But he said he was still impressed with what what he heard.

“I thought that it’s what everybody was hoping for,” Rochkind told TPM. “He does have a sense to ramble, only because he shoots from the hip. But I didn’t sense any of that.”

He was happy to hear Trump mention Go, and Trump’s comments about security stood out to him as well.

“He did say something about keeping us safer because of the existence of the Islamic terrorists. And I think it’s a strong point,” he told TPM. “I don’t want government to interact with my everyday life but I expect to be safe. And that’s what I needed to hear.”

Dwane Tharp, who drove up from Louisiana this week, did not hear all of Trump’s speech from his vantage point along the parade route. But of what he could catch, Tharp said he heard a “message of unity, of America being great again.”

“That’s what he said all through the campaign. He said the same things in that address,” Tharp told TPM.