Thousands of protesters greeted President Donald Trump as he drove into Macomb Community College’s South Campus in Warren on Tuesday to mark the first 100 days in office for his second terms.

People lined the 12 Mile-Hayes roads intersection chanting “hey, hey, ho, ho — Donald Trump has got to go” as numerous passing motorists whistled, waved cheered, and honked the horns of their vehicles in support.

Warren police parked in a patrol car on campus estimated the crowd to be about 10,000 as of 5 p.m.

They came from Harrison Township, Grosse Pointe Park, and as far away as Lansing and Kalamazoo. A TV news crew from Sweden was seen working the crowd.

Phillip Thomus, 63, of Chesterfield Township, carried an upside-down American flag, an international symbol of distress, as he paraded up and down an MCC driveway.

“My parents are Canadian, so that makes me Canadian, too,” Thomus said. “These Trump tariffs are horrible. But my number one thing is the Constitution of the United States. When the president doesn’t follow and obey the law, people figure why should anyone else.”

David Rose agreed.The construction worker said he was at MCC to protest “against Trump and everything he’s done for the last 100 days.”

“Everything from deportation to Elon Musk, who wasn’t even elected, being allowed so much access to everyone’s information — I just don’t think that’s right,” Rose said.

Rose said if the president’s motorcade passed by, Trump would “see a lot of disappointment and angry people, and it’s all because of what this man has done. We want to make sure he knows we don’t want him in office.

After landing at Selfridge Air National Guard Base, the president was joined by Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in announcing the Harrison Township military installation was receiving 21 new F-15EX fighter jets to replace the A-10s, which are being decommissioned.

Then the president’s motorcade headed over to Warren, where Kyle Guthrie was waiting to undergo a security clearance before entering the Sports & Expo Center to hear the president speak.

“I realize his approach to the economy with all these tariffs have people nervous — hell, I’m even nervous,” the fast food worker said. “But I voted for him before and liked how things turned out. I believe he can do it again.”

A row of vendors selling Donald Trump ballcaps, T-shirts, bumper stickers and other items said the fervent nature of supporters seemed to be lacking this time around. Asked how business was, one vendor replied: “Pretty dead.”

Lisa Sullivan drove almost three hours from Kalamazoo with her buddy Nicole Jenney.

Sullivan, the married mother of daughters ages 12 and 14 said she had to attend in order to “help save the country. Otherwise, I couldn’t look at them at the end of the night.”

She recalled after voting for Kamala Harris in 2024, waking up the following morning to hear that Trump had won by sweeping seven swing states.

It nearly devastated her, she said.

“I cried the next day,” Sullivan said. “My husband had to come from work because I couldn’t get out bed. I lost it.”

Sullivan’s friend, Jenney, said it was “disappointing” to see Trump supporters going to a rally to mark his days in office.

“They continue to support hate and divisiveness and not allowing church and the state to be separate any more, and the Constitution is being dismantled, all in the name of the American flag,” she said.