Posted on 06/21/2020 5:49:04 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
TULSA, Okla. - President Donald Trump drew lower-than-expected turnout at his first rally in months on Saturday in Tulsa amid a tense political backdrop, nationwide anti-racism protests, and warnings from health officials about the coronavirus.
Trump began the rally, his first since early March, by thanking the crowd of supporters indoors for coming, despite efforts from "some very bad people outside," alluding to the campaign's unfounded claim that protesters were responsible for the many empty seats inside Tulsa's 19,000-seat Bank of Oklahoma Center by blocking rally-goers from entering.
"We begin! We begin! We begin our campaign," Trump said to applause. "I stand before you today to declare the Silent Majority is stronger than ever before!"
Trump peppered his speech with various criticisms of former Vice President Joe Biden, his presumed Democratic rival in the 2020 presidential election, including on race.
Virtually every policy that has hurt Black Americans for half a century, Joe Biden has supported or enacted, Trump said. I have done more for the Black community in four years than Joe Biden has done in 47 years."
The president also spent a great deal of time recounting the media and pundit reaction to his now-viral and noticeably cautious walk down a conventional-looking ramp after a speech at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point last week.
The president also went after NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, a familiar target, for apologizing this month for opposing players kneeling to protest police brutality during the national anthem.
We will never kneel to our national anthem or our great American flag, Trump said.
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Also appears to be a very racially diverse crowd - not just the people behind the President but among the crowd in general in the entire place. It was a crowd that “looks like America” as the Left likes to say.
It took three writers to compose this bit of fiction.
Not disagreeing with you. I was just responding to the original post.
And Trump still had over ten times more people at this rally than Biden has ever had.
When Trump talked about those shoes, I thought of the twilight zone episode of a old man that has what you need.... Slippery Shoes. I too haven’t worn my expensive leather soled shoes in fifteen years.... Too slippery. Even on concrete.
Okay.
AOC should be more concerned with Tuesday’s primary.
It didnt help having this at the entrance
Yeah, his name is Bob Uercher (spell), the voice of the Milwaukee Brewers baseball team. He made his Uercher seats commercials “great seats” back decades ago in a beer commercial. This is probably Bob’s new commercial!!! :-)
Dartunorro Clark, Susan Kroll and Monica Alba - it takes 3 morons to make a clown circus...
It appears that 11,000 attended inside of the arena. That far surpasses Biden’s 4 in Philadelphia. But I don’s suspect that NBC really understands math too well...
“I have no idea why AOC is claiming victory.”
Because they have to. Key fact: They tipped their hand. They can’t win honestly. Dishonesty includes not only fake attendees, but votes.
We are being usurped by a generation without ethos. Useless, pathetic swill, graduates of the Anti-american Academy.
I pray that we teach them a lesson in November.
The crowd size is irrelevant. The time has come for President Trump to take the shackles off of the American people. We stand hear waiting for him to solve these problems we see all around us.
With see how are police are being treated, how our country is disrespected, how our kids are indoctrinated, how workers are abused by globalists, how immigrants are just more slave labor, how blacks empower their oppressors, and how fear is used to manipulate our country.
We want to see the National Guard federalized, these rioters put on notice they will be dealt with violently if they continue. We want our police to be respected well trained and worthy of respect. We want our country to be acknowledged for its virtues as well as recognizing its vices. We want American companies held accountable for empowering China and supporting rioters by being made liable for damages they commit.
We want propaganda removed from our schools and made safe and agenda free. We want democrats held accountable for how they run inner cities. We want to stop the abuse of illegal aliens with making it a crime with jail time if they pay any person below minimum wage legal or illegal.
We want hope not fear optimism not gloom. Bring in a new bread of reporters into the press room abandon the television reporters and move to internet reporters that are fair. We need a leader who will lay it all out with us to counter this assault on our county. And if after fighting the good fight and still fail then there will be no regrets and we will prepare for the consequences for the future.
Can you even imagine a US Congress Representative actually bragging and laughing at the lying and cheating to influence at event in a presidential election. Support dishonesty and cheating by children/teenagers to support her cause. If they did this for a rally think what will be coming on the presidential election.
it's a ruse. Even if 90% of the "tickets" were obtained by people that weren't going to go, that still leaves 100,000 people that would attend, or attempt to attend the rally. So it's a moot point - the fake ticket grabbing did nothing to stop people that wanted to go.
What really happened was that protester/thugs were successful in blocking access of many people to the venue - people with families and kids. But most made it in anyway. Obviously, the left doesn't want that narrative to get out, so they do the "ticket" ruse instead.
In my neck of the woods, the choir is getting bigger and bigger. This is exactly what you say we need.
4 years ago I was a lonely Trump supporter. But I realized that any even semi-conservative businessman was better than any politician.
Well, we got a real conservative businessman which was great. Best of all, friends and family have come to know and love DJT.
We had a TV watching party for the rally. Lots of enthusiasm.
He literally bragged about that.
He made a joke about asking people to stop testing so the numbers would be low, and several news outlets reported it as if it was something he had actually done (like if he had, we wouldn’t have had national headlines about it in every newspaper).
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