‘Maybe That’s Good!’ Trump Says ‘Worst Weather’ in Iowa’s ‘Recorded History’ Could Benefit Him in Caucus

Ex-president Donald Trump on Friday posted a video addressing Iowa Republican voters ahead of his weekend visit and the caucuses taking place on Monday, and said that the state experiencing terrible weather might “be a good thing” for him.

The 2024 candidate is headed to Iowa on Saturday but said in the video shared on his Truth Social platform that his arrival time could be delayed thanks to the bitter cold and harsh conditions in the state.

It was 2°F at noon on Saturday in Des Moines the weekend before the crucial Iowa Caucus, with the state under blizzard warnings and many roads now impassable. Even as the snow possibly moves out, Monday’s caucus is anticipated to be the coldest in history, with wind chill predicted to go as low as 35 degrees below zero.

In vowing to arrive in the Hawkeye state by Saturday night “one way or another,” Trump said twice that the record conditions might be “a good thing.”

“You have the worst weather, I guess, in recorded history. But, maybe that’s good because our people are more committed than anybody else,’ he said. “So, maybe it’s actually a good thing for us.”

The question of how the cold will affect turnout is a pressing one, especially whether the weather will help or hurt Trump. A Trump surrogate on Fox News scoffed at the idea it would be hurtful to the ex-president’s voter turnout.

Hello, Iowa. This is your favorite president, and we’re going to make America great again. I’m leaving very shortly for your beautiful state. I love that state. I love the people in the state.

I’ll get there sometime around Saturday night or something. One way or the other, I’m getting there. You have the worst weather, I guess, in recorded history. But, maybe that’s good because our people are more committed than anybody else. So, maybe it’s actually a good thing for us.

But we have to make sure we caucus on Monday, 6:30, get there a half hour before the seven o’clock bell. And, we’re going to do something that’s really special. We’re going to start with you, and then we’re going to turn our country around, and it’s going to be amazing. And I’ll get to see you on Sunday and Monday and maybe Saturday night late. Yeah. It’s going to be a little bit of a trek. Nobody knows how exactly we’re going to get there, but we’re going to figure it out and we wouldn’t miss it for anything.

So we have record cold weather, record snowfall, record everything, but we will not miss it. So maybe Saturday, Saturday night, we don’t know what time. We have no idea. But we’ll see you on Sunday. We’ll see you on Monday. I’m going to be helping you with the caucus, and I look forward to it. And we’re going to have a great victory, and we’re going to beat the crooked Joe Biden, the worst president in the history of our country, or not even a contest. You can take, as I often say, the ten worst, add them up, they’re not as bad. They haven’t done the damage that this man has done to our country. So we’re going to make America great again. I’ll see you on Sunday. I’m going to see you on Monday, and I’m going to be with you 7:00. But get there at 6:30 and we’re going to caucus and we’re going to do great. Thank you. See you then.

Watch the clip above via Donald Trump on Truth Social.