President Trump supporters\u2014many of whom faced triple-digit heat to attend a Tuesday rally in Phoenix\u2014appeared to approve the president\u2019s speech and his job performance despite recent turmoil in his administration and his reaction to Charlottesville.<\/p>\n
The rally inside the Phoenix Convention Center was raucous at times, and Trump appeared to approach the stage in a similar way in which he approached stages during his campaign.<\/p>\n
He engaged the crowd\u2014asking them if it was a good decision to run for president<\/a>\u2014and he used to platform to assail critics.<\/p>\n Trump devoted a lengthy portion of his speech to his response to the deadly Charlottesville protests. He appeared to veer off his prepared remarks and reiterated that he believed he got the correct message across the first time despite the media firestorm.<\/p>\n \u201cI like the fact that he\u2019s trying to unite the country instead of tearing it apart, I\u2019m kind of disappointed that people fell he\u2019s a racist and he\u2019s prejudice, I really don\u2019t believe he is and that\u2019s one of the reasons why I voted for him\u201d, says Erik Shaffer from Chandler, Arizona.<\/p>\n Another Trump supporter at the rally said: \u201cWe were looking at ourselves and what did he say that was so bad, we couldn\u2019t quite figure it out, we were trying to figure out what the media was trying to say and it didn\u2019t ring true whatsoever.”<\/p>\n