On June 20th, 2020 then-President Trump was worried about his reelection prospects. Lagging in the polls behind Democratic presidential nominee and then-former Vice President Joe Biden, and his signature MAGA rallies on hold for months due to the nationwide COVID-19 pandemic, Trump was dying to get back on the campaign trail. For whatever reason Trump and his campaign chose Tulsa – maybe due to the relative lack of local COVID-19 restrictions, that a deep Red State would guarantee a large crowd as opposed to a swing state, deliberate trolling because it was the site of one of the deadliest racial pogroms in American history 99 years earlier that month, or some combination thereof – and set it for June 19th, later pushing it back a day as to (pretend to) respect Juneteenth.
The Trump campaign and their fanboys were elated that he was hitting the road again. Better yet, they got over a million requests for tickets, so much so they made plans for a double indoor-outdoor rally at the Bank of Oklahoma arena in Tulsa. The MAGA trolls were SO freaking excited.
Calmone • 4 years ago
He’s a rock star!
Sat, 6/13/2020 6:03 AM on ‘Trump campaign manager says 300,000 tickets registered for upcoming rally’
Flight • 4 years ago
Day-um…Joe can’t even get 30.
Sat, 6/13/2020 7:05 AM on ‘Trump campaign manager says 300,000 tickets registered for upcoming rally’
Sodakbull • 4 years ago
Joe Biden can barely get 3000 people to watch an online town hall. But that is essential for him to stay up in the polls.
Sat, 6/13/2020 9:19 AM on ‘Trump campaign manager says 300,000 tickets registered for upcoming rally’
Steve Rogers ✓ᵈᵉᵖˡᵒʳᵃᵇˡᵉ™ • 4 years ago
Dems fear this, Joe can’t even fill a 7/11 and they know it !
They hoped to keep us all locked down till November….and like their other ploys. THIS TOO HAS FAILED !
Sat, 6/13/2020 1:58 AM on ‘Trump campaign manager says 300,000 tickets registered for upcoming rally’
One Other Person Is Typing… • 4 years ago
Thousands already lining up for MASSIVE Trump rally!!
Joe puts on his pyjamas ready for the afternoon nap…
Fri, 6/19/2020 4:54 PM on ‘Tulsa rescinds curfew ahead of Trump rally’
Then the big night came and…
Update: outdoor area has completely emptied out. pic.twitter.com/XS8M0IJRFc
— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) June 20, 2020
TBALL • 4 years ago
go ahead leftist and marxist – claim your little victory
Sat, 6/20/2020 10:37 PM on ‘Trump mocked for low attendance at rally’
Paging Sean Spicer for a crowd estimate in Tulsa
— Dan Rather (@DanRather) June 20, 2020
Seaniac • 4 years ago
Libs did a great job scaring people off
Sat, 6/20/2020 11:17 PM on ‘Trump mocked for low attendance at rally’
This is President Trump’s Fyre Fest. pic.twitter.com/USYQ6e94gM
— David Cicilline (@davidcicilline) June 20, 2020
norcalguy101 • 4 years ago
Who the F cares? Millions watched either on line or on cable.
Sat, 6/20/2020 10:45 PM on ‘Trump mocked for low attendance at rally’
The next day, the excuses…
Dr RightWing • a year ago
The outside had tons of people locked out at the last minute. Now they’re madder at the left than they already were. My Facebook feed is full of pics that tell the real story the msm refuses to. Biden is done and so are Dems.
Sun, 6/21/2020 8:15 AM on ‘Protests force military reckoning on race’
Then the TikTok plot was revealed…
Unreal Uknow • 4 years ago
Now Korean kids are meddling in our elections using a Chinese platform , and being directed by AOC and Antifa. FBI should get right on that.
Sun, 6/21/2020 9:08 AM on ‘Ocasio-Cortez: Trump rally sabotaged by ‘teens on TikTok”
I FEED YOU LIBERALS!! • 4 years ago
Yes election tampering is quite acceptable to the Hitler youth be warned.
Sun, 6/21/2020 9:13 AM on ‘Ocasio-Cortez: Trump rally sabotaged by ‘teens on TikTok”
MaryWaterton • 4 years ago
Look at that! Just like vote-by-mail fraud — Democrat style! If they are willing to do this with ticket distribution to a rally, then they definitely will do this with ballots!
Sun, 6/21/2020 9:58 AM on ‘Ocasio-Cortez: Trump rally sabotaged by ‘teens on TikTok”
Pizza Licker • 4 years ago
Democrats in bed with China
Sun, 6/21/2020 10:12 AM on ‘Ocasio-Cortez: Trump rally sabotaged by ‘teens on TikTok”
Bobby Chan • 4 years ago
A good start to preserve election integrity is to block TikTok access to the USA.
Sun, 6/21/2020 11:09 AM on ‘Pollak: After TikTok, 2020 Election Is About China’
randy • 4 years ago
Democrats fraudulently obtained hundreds of rally tickets to deprive others of seats and interfere with free political speech. Kind of like what they do in elections, right?
Sun, 6/21/2020 12:52 PM on ‘Pollak: After TikTok, 2020 Election Is About China’
Red47 ignore them & they win • 4 years ago
You are so happy to have foreign interference in our election process. How does this work.
Mon, 6/22/2020 12:07 PM on ‘Ocasio-Cortez: Trump rally sabotaged by ‘teens on TikTok”
So that was a lot of fun, and without a doubt the most hilarious fuckups of the Trump reelection campaign up until that point at least. It began Trump’s quest for revenge against TikTok for their users’ trolling (TikTok had already had a legitimate bullseye on their back from the US Treasury department at that point), and to our knowledge Trump never attempted to have a rally anywhere close to that size until his 2024 campaign. It took a few months for him to really get back on the campaign trail, but most events were held at airports, with crowd sizes in the low thousands.
Much as we don’t really like citing Wikipedia, their article on the Tulsa Rally provides probably the most succinct description of what was accomplished for the Trump 2020 Campaign: “The number of daily COVID-19 cases in Oklahoma tripled in the 30 days that followed the rally, while Republican politician Herman Cain died from complications of COVID-19 after attending it.”
This piece originally appeared on June 20, 2021. This reprint contains some very minor edits and at least a few of the Disqus Hill comments are dead links due to those losers either getting booted from the platform or deleting the accounts of their own volition since 2021. Obviously also Trump has changed his tune on TikTok since those K-Pop kids fucked up Tulsa for him.
ILLEGAL 👽 • 4 years ago
HAHAHA IF THE DEMORATS CAN BURN THEIR CITIES DOWN DONALD TRUMP CAN HAVE A RALLY
Sat, 6/13/2020 1:47 AM on ‘Trump campaign manager says 300,000 tickets registered for upcoming rally’