Did you really expect him to be a MAGA advocate ? Never happens and probably a political reason to have a R after his name than a D???? Time will tell.
His political reason to have an "R" after his name is .... RE-ELECTION.
I'm not sure if I believe all the puffery on this, but allegedly .... there were 170,000 requests for tickets for that appearance.
Only 8500 or so were able to be seated/allowed BUT ...
BUT ...
The thing about Tump's 'RALLY" strategy goes WAY beyond whatever his bonding and Trumpian performances are as our POTUS and "First Celebrity"
Every time Trump does a rally around the Nation it is ALWAYS somewhere where he has support or won in 2016 in his miraculous iNSIDE STRAIGHT ... obviously ... but GOTV data and information is critically accumulated.
Think of it! Why doesn't Trump go to larger venues in bigger cities? Forget about this candidate, think about the strategy. If 170,000 New Jersey residents ACTUALLY signed up for tickets down in Wildwood and the venue only handled around 12,000 participants?
How else can you get 170,000 names (I get it, trolls and bots), email addresses and text numbers to put into your GOTV data base going forward? How long would it take to proactively FIND these people absent the rally?
It's a genius strategy. Only DJT can pull it off, though, with his aura. He's targeting the right States he needs to win and he's accumulating ALL the contacts and data and support every political operation needs on a national scale.