Donald Trump has been anxious to restart his rallies ahead of the election in November, even though the president could put his own supporters at risk. Trump’s June 20th rally in Tulsa has been met with criticism, and the city is seeing a spike in COVID-19 cases. The U.S. is reeling over George Floyd’s murder by police officers as daily protests continue, but Donald Trump doesn’t seem to be addressing either of the national crises.
Instead, Trump took to Twitter to brag about how many people have requested tickets for the Tulsa rally. The Trump campaign has thrown out conflicting figures to the public on how many tickets have been registered for the event, with campaign manager Brad Parscale now claiming 800,000 people registered for tickets even though the venue holds only 19,000. Parscale has upped the number of people that are attending several times now.
And Trump just changed the number to nearly one million, because why not. Tulsa’s population isn’t even half of this number.
Almost One Million people request tickets for the Saturday Night Rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 15, 2020
Twitter users piled in.
LMAO! pic.twitter.com/s8PEYSKkbr
— 🆁🅾︎🆂🅴-BLACK LIVES MATTER! (@Roseluvzevery1) June 15, 2020
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You know you’re the only person who believes this, right? Your campaign keeps making up the craziest shit to make you think you’re not losing, and you naively fall for it every time. You’re as senile as you are stupid!
— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) June 15, 2020
19,000 person arena in a city with a population of 400,000. You gotta stop with lies
— Daniel Uhlfelder (@DWUhlfelderLaw) June 15, 2020
Donald is 74, the 7 is still silent!
— Calvin (@realcalvinn) June 15, 2020
How MANY did you HIRE from Craigslist?? pic.twitter.com/lsNrKMRnNT
— The Resistor Sister ♥️🇺🇸🦅🙏🏻 (@the_resistor) June 15, 2020
Why stop there, just tell us it was 1 billion people or 10 billion.#MAGAGAGAGA
— Philip N Cohen (@familyunequal) June 15, 2020
The capacity for the arena is 19,000.
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) June 15, 2020
Trump is lying about the number of requests, and all to protect his massive but fragile ego. Trump’s top priority is himself, while the country is grieving. And we could comfortably sit back and laugh at the plague enthusiasts for attending the rally, but unfortunately, they will go out and infect others as they spread the disease.
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