Extreme heat sends 11 to hospital at Arizona Trump rally
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Via: hallux • 6 months ago • 77 commentsBy: Emma Vardy, Regan Morris and Ana Faguy, BBC News
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Extreme heat in Arizona sent 11 people to hospital as thousands waited to enter a campaign rally with former President Donald Trump.
As Trump took the stage just after 17:00 EDT (22:00 GMT) at a mega-church in Phoenix, the temperature was 111F (44C).
It was his first rally since his criminal conviction in a New York hush-money case , which found him guilty of falsifying business records in relation to a payment to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels.
Trump used the campaign event to repeat accusations that the case against him was politically motivated and called for the conviction to be overturned.
"I just went through a rigged trial in New York," he insisted. "It was made-up, fabricated stuff."
The ex-president is expected to appeal against all 34 charges in the trial.
Fans started lining up early outside the massive Phoenix Dream City Church to see him speak, and strict security measures meant it took time for everyone to get in.
As supporters waited outside the campaign rally, BBC News saw several people being treated for heat-related issues and two were taken to hospital.
On Thursday - two weeks before summer even officially starts - the National Weather Service (NWS) forecast record-breaking temperatures in interior California, and parts of Nevada and Arizona.
Temperatures were expected to reach 121F (49C) in California's scorching Death Valley during the heatwave.
In Phoenix, an excessive heat warning is in place on Friday, with people being asked to limit time outdoors and stay hydrated.
Trump started a small campaign tour with the stop in Phoenix on Thursday, exactly a week after he was found guilty in New York.
The former president spoke for about 90 minutes before departing for a fundraiser in San Francisco.
As well as railing against his conviction, he said he would reverse President Joe Biden's new executive order aimed at curbing migrant arrivals at the US-Mexico border.
"On day one of my administration, I will be rescinding Crooked Joe's outrageous executive order," he said, describing it as "pro-invasion".
The presidential candidate promised to "terminate every single open-borders policy of the Biden administration".
As both sides continue their campaigning, Trump said in an interview aired on Thursday that he would announce his pick for running mate at next month's Republican National Convention, commenting: "We have some very good people."
Trump is next expected to hold a campaign event in Las Vegas on Sunday.
That city is also seeing record temperatures. The forecast high of 112F (44C) in Las Vegas on Thursday would be the city's earliest observed 112F day on record.
Temperatures are 20 to 30 degrees Fahrenheit above average for this time of year, according to the NWS, though they will cool slightly by the time Trump visits on Sunday.
The intense heat has placed more than 30 million people across the south-west region under alerts for dangerously hot temperatures, with officials asking residents to take precautions.
Heat-related illness and even death are becoming more common in Phoenix and the American south-west.
While heat domes were once described as rare, heatwaves and heat domes are becoming more common and intense because of human-induced climate change, scientists say.
The world hit 12 straight months of record-high temperatures, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service said earlier this week.
Last month was the hottest recorded May in history.
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"As Trump took the stage just after 17:00 EDT (22:00 GMT) at a mega-church in Phoenix, the temperature was 111F (44C)".
I'm sure Captain Blowhard raised the temperature by another dozen degrees.
first, why is a political rally taking place at a church? that seems a bit problematic...
second, I heard an ambulance in the background during a live broadcast by charlie kirk. LOL
gee, I wonder how many trumpster relics keeled over in the vegas heat...
Use Google.
Only a moron would attend one of those 'rallies' in the first place, and in that heat?
Idiots.
30+ required medical attention and 6 of them were hospitalized, was what I heard. trump needs to have more rallies before the early bird special at denny's starts ...
Wasn't problematic when Traitor Joe spoke at a church.
Could have been due to a snowflake leftist passing out for hearing an opinion that didn't fit the narrative.
more power to trump. I'm certainly not against the idea of gullible maga scum waiting for hours out in the sun to see their demigod and then having him ramble incoherently for a few more...
How humanitarian of you. Really wish I could say I'm surprised.
thanks!
mad dogs and Englishmen
Is this where #34 was talking about boats and sharks and electrocution?
another bunch of maga morons folded up in the heat waiting to see their false idol this weekend in detroit. bummer.
At least swift gives out free water.
trump's lackeys are probably selling it around there somewhere ...
warm bottled trump water, $1 per ounce...
Priced in compliance with Traitor Joe's economy?
not my fault some incompetent maga moron completely mismanaged the first 6 months of the global pandemic that led to a near economic catastrophe we're still feeling the results of, instead of getting in front of it...
Excuses for Biden have been reduced to really nothing more than Orange Man Bad.
Pitiful.
[✘]
The projection is unreal
Still trying to make excuses for the failure you voted for.
I never voted for trump...
1.1.3
I said failure. Not Trump.
"While heat domes were once described as rare, heatwaves and heat domes are becoming more common and intense because of human-induced climate change, scientists say."
Actually, they are not. Nor are hurricanes getting more frequent or intense. Surprising to some, but it really gets hot in the Southwest in summer. Heat domes are not rare, every summer high pressure sets up anywhere along the Gulf coast and extending west to the Four Corners area and beyond.. The word "extreme" is more frequently bandied about as if it is hotter this year than previously, but after all, this is the time of maximum day length and high sun angle. Once the summer monsoon starts up things should cool a bit. It's weather, not climate change.
What a bunch of nonsense. It is hotter and more severe with more severe weather and storms. It is climate change.
Your absurd nonsense denial is ridiculous.
each year it is obvious, and incremental, i believe is the word, upward, the trend is upward, to unreal temperatures, earlier and earlier also
Oh good, someone with a degree in Meteorology to set us straight.
Yeah, one of my go to experts on climate change and meteorology
direct from a climate controlled environment...
don't forget to eat all your jello
I prefer yogurt, with fruit in it...
... it's how I kicked my ice cream addiction.
Add some granola on top and it's perfect.
These people know it's not safe to stand around outside in the heat, but they had to see their Orange Jesus
It's illegal to handout water these days.
Ridiculous. For what reason? The folks in interminable lines are there for one purpose. No handouts will influence their vote. Anything to make it less uncomfortable is not a problem.
I'm surprised the orange menace isn't charging admission to his maga comedy tour...
they could have turned the fire hoses on them and made maga shit soup, chunky style...
Ew! OMFG! I need to find TG's meme of that cat puking. lolololol
yuck
lol
but you don't want to eat them with a spoon - yuck
furball, incoming...
Morning...why would you want to queue up in line for hours in stinking heat...to see any bogan politician?..
What is wrong with people..
stupid fucking moron is as stupid fucking moron does
That is an incredibly long list.
First laugh of the morning...always a great way to start the day.. 🤣🤣
And with that, I am going to bed, have a super day!
it's the same people that crow about their xtian values and then vote for a clown that makes a mockery of the 10 commandments, and complain about crime, law and order, upholding the constitution, while their hero is a criminal lowlife...
lifelong criminal lowlife thug, and now actual convicted felon on 34 counts
it's the equivalent of the sermon on the mount, but only for gullible morons...
Dementia Don said it was in Texas.
he can't tell his obese and elderly white people apart ...
Hey now, wait one second....
Not Guilty, IBRED
careful, you could be accused of taking advantage of your heritage by those thinking manifest destiny is the sole heritage.
no sugar in the home for 12 years = 83 pounds lost. ... and get some sun.
Lost 20 pounds riding the fat tire mountain bike this winter.
Way too hot to ride it now.
row your boat around the pond, or get a rear tire stand for the bike...
that's the only state he can identify on a map of the US...
And not to mention wasting the Ambos time carting these people off to hospital..
I am sure they have better things to do than pick up over heated, self inflicted ferals who have flaked out on the footpath.. probably half of them be ready to cark it anyway and they have just sped up the process..
I don't think they can grasp that concept. on the plus side, at least they were in the presence of their savior... /s
so in other words, zero loss to america...
They’re all going to hell anyways. May as well get used to it now.
I’m shocked, I never took you for being a fundamentalist.
Did you catch my name?
It should have tipped me off, Hal.
only 144K thumpers in the heaven lotto and it's starting to look like no english speaking whites will make the cut...
... like they would know the difference.
Actually they probably think hell is an eternal drag queen story hour.
they'll probably figure it out after they see all their heroes on spits at the company picnic...
So the equivalent to the entire crowd at a Biden rally.