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Trump Visits a Local Business in Rome, Georgia, Feb. 19, 2026

February 19, 2026 · The White House · 0:05:03

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What happened

President Donald Trump visited a local business in Rome, Georgia on February 19, 2026, during the Georgia trip built around his economy remarks at Coosa Steel. Working the room among customers — “they have all those beautiful hamburgers,” he noted — he joked that the group was “studying my speech” and offered a preview: “Would you like to hear my speech? I’ll make it a speech in a little while.”

Between greetings he ran the election-integrity checklist he would repeat in the day’s main speech, asking the crowd directly: “Who likes voter ID? Who likes proof of citizenship? Who likes no mail-in ballots except for military, illness, disability, or like you’re on vacation?” He also returned to the Iowa ballot dispute he has pressed since the 2020 count — “all those crooked ballots were taken. Let’s see what happens… We’re cleaning it up,” as he put it.

Why it matters

The stop is the retail-politics companion to the Rome economy speech paged from the same day: the President testing the voter-ID and mail-in-ballot lines on a lunchtime crowd hours before delivering them from the factory floor. It is recorded on the Elections & Governance hub.

Sources: The White House, “President Trump Visits a Local Business,” The White House, February 19, 2026 (official upload, embedded above; Rome, GA, per the official description). All characterizations as stated by the President at the stop.