Trump Campaign Rejects Claim That TikTok, K-Pop Fans Sabotaged Tulsa Rally

President Donald Trump’s campaign said that media organizations are spreading false narratives about Trump’s rally in Oklahoma on Saturday after a smaller-than-expected crowd of people turned up, saying that the CCP virus and protesters were the reason why fewer attended.

“Leftists and online trolls doing a victory lap, thinking they somehow impacted rally attendance, don’t know what they’re talking about or how our rallies work,” campaign manager Brad Parscale told Fox News on Sunday. “Reporters who wrote gleefully about TikTok and K-Pop [Korean pop music] fans—without contacting the campaign for comment—behaved unprofessionally and were willing dupes to the charade.”

Parscale continued, “Registering for a rally means you’ve RSVPed with a cellphone number and we constantly weed out bogus numbers, as we did with tens of thousands at the Tulsa rally, in calculating our possible attendee pool. These phony ticket requests never factor into our thinking. What makes this lame attempt at hacking our events even more foolish is the fact that every rally is general admission—entry is on a first-come-first-served basis and prior registration is not required.”

It came after Twitter users claimed they sabotaged Trump’s rally by allegedly reserving scores of tickets online before failing to show up. The claims were highlighted by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), who said that teens on the Chinese social media app TikTok and fans of K-pop were responsible for the lower turnout.

President Donald Trump points at the crowd as he enters his first re-election campaign rally in several months in the midst of the CCP virus outbreak, at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Okla., on June 20, 2020. (Leah Millis/Reuters)

Media outlets repeatedly highlighted the attendance by publishing photos of empty seats at the top of the auditorium.

agree-I saw the tweet from Trump about almost a million tix request, I think the campaign was had-lefties will stop at nothing- when i saw that i said can’t be right the entire population of Tulsa is only 400,000 people, the entire state has less than 4 million-45% are dems and so they shouldn’t have let Trump brag that 25% of the state was travelling to Tulsa to see Trump-does Parscale not have a clue about this? He is trying to cover himself now. Just admit it,learn and move on, denying it sounds foolish cuz campaign put out that they had over 800,000 request

and so yes, something is wrong-they need to charge $1 a tix, so if it happens in the future the campaign would reap a million bucks- need smarter people managing this

Before you accuse me of being a never-Trumper... far from it. Check my comments. I WANT President Trump to succeed! We all need him to succeed and win in November.

That Tulsa venue with its capacity of 19,000 people should have been packed to the rafters last night. I still haven't heard a specific reason from Parscale and the campaign why it wasn't.

There were probably a variety of reasons why there were so many empty seats last night, plus pretty much no one showed up at the big venue outside. Let's hope the next rally is handled better.

As I said in a previous post, the good news here is that millions of people watched the rally online and on TV last night.

They are scared out of their minds if they have to put in this effort. Soliciting a teen campaign to sabotage his rally. And talking about it all day. If they weren’t threatened by knowing he will win, they wouldn’t even put on the effort.

I’ll say it again. It was a fantastic rally. Mission accomplished. Voters are pumped.

I agree with you... to me, the crowd looked to be 10,000 - 12,000 or so. However, every article I've read so far said that the "tickets scanned (bar codes) at the door" was 6,200.

If you or anyone else has some evidence of the exact number of people that attended the rally last night, I'm all ears. I really don't know, other than what I've read in several articles.

Whatever the number, yes... it was a GREAT crowd!

Millions watched online. And the live YT comments was pure Trump enthusiasm. Lots going on between the virus and Cary violent maniacs. It turned out great. Hopefully you watched it. If so, you’ll know that.

Hubby and I watched every minute of last night's great rally, starting with the speeches by Lara and Eric Trump. We watch every Trump rally.

Whatever happened last night with the *unfortunate* empty seats (and no-shows at the outside rally venue)... the good news is that many millions of people watched the rally online, and on Fox News, C-SPAN and OANN.

Possibly other TV stations, too? Not CNN nor MSNBC from what I heard.

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