The other big story today was, of course, Trump’s rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, designed to jumpstart his campaign and reunite him with the crowds that energize him. His campaign manager, Brad Parscale, along with the president himself, has spent days crowing that almost a million tickets had been reserved, and the campaign had built an outside stage for overflow crowds.
But far fewer than the 19,000 people Tulsa’s BOK Center could hold showed up: the local fire marshal said the number was just under 6,200. Young TikTok users and fans of Korean pop music (so-called “K-Pop stans”), along with Instagram and Snapchat users, had quietly ordered tickets to prank the campaign. The technological savvy of their generation has turned political: they knew that the Trump campaign harvests information from ticket reservations, bombarding applicants with texts and requests for donations. So they set up fake accounts and phone numbers to order the tickets, then deleted the fake accounts. They also deleted their social media posts organizing the plan to keep it from the attention of the Trump campaign.
The poor turnout after such hype was deeply embarrassing for the campaign. Trump’s people took down the outside stage and Trump blamed “protesters” who had kept supporters out of the venue for the small size of the rally, but there were few reports of any interactions between Trump supporters and protesters and no one was turned away.
But far fewer than the 19,000 people Tulsa’s BOK Center could hold showed up: the local fire marshal said the number was just under 6,200. Young TikTok users and fans of Korean pop music (so-called “K-Pop stans”), along with Instagram and Snapchat users, had quietly ordered tickets to prank the campaign. The technological savvy of their generation has turned political: they knew that the Trump campaign harvests information from ticket reservations, bombarding applicants with texts and requests for donations. So they set up fake accounts and phone numbers to order the tickets, then deleted the fake accounts. They also deleted their social media posts organizing the plan to keep it from the attention of the Trump campaign.
The poor turnout after such hype was deeply embarrassing for the campaign. Trump’s people took down the outside stage and Trump blamed “protesters” who had kept supporters out of the venue for the small size of the rally, but there were few reports of any interactions between Trump supporters and protesters and no one was turned away.
According to the NYT, CNN and AOC, there was an online movement to order hundreds of thousands of tickets and not show up. Obviously some of those requests would have been honored with tickets. So this movement would have accomplished two things
1) inflated the number of requests, which proves the Trump campaign was not lying when talking about the volume of requests
2) created a relatively few empty seats
Still, the crowd attending that event dwarfed anything Joe Biden ever had (maybe in his lifetime)
Democrats acting in a dishonest, deceptive and disruptive fashion, shocking it ain't
1) inflated the number of requests, which proves the Trump campaign was not lying when talking about the volume of requests
2) created a relatively few empty seats
Still, the crowd attending that event dwarfed anything Joe Biden ever had (maybe in his lifetime)
Democrats acting in a dishonest, deceptive and disruptive fashion, shocking it ain't
Talking about it right above you. It was a brilliant move by the young generation. Technology savvy. Might’ve been the only thing the trump admin didn’t lie about last night. But still wasn’t a good look for them.
Lot more than a few empty seats though. They had setup an entire stage outside that they had to break down without anyone using. 6200 out of 19000 capacity
I'm telling you, your standards for accomplishments are really really really low
Younger people are always more liberal, older people are more conservative.
What happens in between? Experience and wisdom take over, that's what
