A fundraiser President Trump is headlining Tuesday night will take place at the Beverly Park mansion of Shari and Edward Glazer, co-chairman of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, according to a source familiar with security arrangements for the event.
Donors are contributing up to $250,000 each to attend the dinner, with the funds benefiting Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign and various Republican National Committee accounts. The fundraising goal for the event is $5 million.
Glazer, 48, is the son of the late billionaire Malcolm Glazer. In addition to the Bucs, his family owns the Manchester United soccer team. Glazer is also president of First Allied Corp., the family’s real estate company.
President Trump seemed to confirm Gov. Jerry Brown’s recent complaint that the president is “going to war against” the state, telling reporters during his first visit that Brown is “doing a terrible job.”
“Gov. Brown’s done a very poor job running California,” Trump said while inspecting border wall prototypes in San Diego. “They have the highest taxes in the United States. The place is totally out of control.”
He noted that he owns property in the state. "The taxes are way, way out of whack and people are going to start to move pretty soon."
Nearly 2,000 miles of rivers, desert, chaparral and fencing separate the United States and Mexico, and a wall advocated by President Trump could soon be built along some parts of the border.
However, for the many people who live binational lives, the border is more of filter than a definitive line.
During this time of national focus on immigration and border issues, the San Diego Union-Tribune has recorded life on the border to highlight its struggles, transformations and beauty.
I think the governor is doing a terrible job running the state of California.
At a rally near Las Americas Premium Outlets, a few dozen protesters gathered on a street corner Tuesday in opposition to President Trump’s visit to California.
Judith Castro, 27, took the day off work as a teacher aide to protest Trump. Castro said she captured video last week of Border Patrol agents arresting a mother in front of her daughters in National City.
Born and raised in San Diego, Castro said her parents were deported in 2006 and 2007 and now live in Tijuana. She doesn’t want a bigger wall separating them.
A small fracas broke out at the pro-Trump gathering in Otay Mesa on Tuesday after a protester dropped a Mexican flag from a car.
The flag was torn to shreds and a man in a Trump hat and shirt threatened to burn it.
“They burn our flag in our country, burn theirs in ours!” another man shouted.
President Trump broke with standard practice Tuesday, flying to California without any lawmakers from the state.
Such trips are normally a perk, most often for lawmakers of the president’s political party, who get to ride on the prestigious Air Force One and enjoy access to the president as well as some local publicity.
Trump’s solo flight suggests the political risk he brings to state Republicans given his low popularity in California. Though aides aboard the plane, which landed at 11:23 a.m. PDT, said they knew of no visits Trump would have with local lawmakers, Rep. Duncan Hunter was spotted at the site where Trump will inspect prototypes for a southern border wall.
Border Patrol SUVs occasionally passed the pro-Trump gathering in a grass field half a mile from the U.S.-Mexico border.
The gathering opened with prayer. “I pray for a hedge of protection around them,” a woman said on behalf of Trump and his traveling staff.
Trevor Louden, a blogger and political activist from New Zealand, asked people, “Have you ever seen as much vitriol and hatred directed at a president in your lifetime?”