--- title: Donald Trump 'Thank You' Victory Tour to Start in Ohio description: President-elect Donald Trump will launch a "thank you" tour on Thursday in Cincinnati, transition officials said canonical: https://time.com/4584946/donald-trump-thank-you-victory-tour/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-29T16:51:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T02:02:19.399Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump to Start 'Thank You' Victory Tour With Ohio Rally og:description: He'll go to Cincinnati on Thursday og:url: https://time.com/4584946/donald-trump-thank-you-victory-tour/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3e119de8faedb992/6988aff0656a3f390bbcdff3/trump-victory-tour.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: Melania Trump,Donald Trump,Barron Trump og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump to Start 'Thank You' Victory Tour With Ohio Rally twitter:description: He'll go to Cincinnati on Thursday twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3e119de8faedb992/6988aff0656a3f390bbcdff3/trump-victory-tour.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump to Start 'Thank You' Victory Tour With Ohio Rally > Sponsored content. 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Carolyn Kaster—AP by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Nov 29, 2016 4:51 PM UTC President-elect [Donald Trump](http://time.com/4584614/donald-trump-burn-us-flag/?xid=homepage) will launch a “thank you” tour on Thursday in Cincinnati, transition officials said, as he launches a tour to visit the areas of the country that shot him to a surprise presidential election victory, Trump often noted the size of his rally audiences during the campaign. In the immediate aftermath of the election, he considered going on a weekend [victory tour](http://time.com/4574493/donald-trump-chaotic-transition/) to feed off the crowd energy one more time, opted to [begin putting together his government](http://time.com/4574493/donald-trump-chaotic-transition/) instead. The “thank you” tour may take Trump to the swing states that voted in his favor, like Michigan, Pennsylvania and Florida, George Gigicos, Trump’s director of advance, [said](http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-11-29/trump-s-thank-you-tour-said-to-start-in-ohio-on-thursday) earlier this month. The Cincinnati event is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Thursday at U.S. Bank Arena—the site of one of his rallies during the campaign. 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