Posted on 06/21/2020 10:34:55 AM PDT by lionstar
President Trump’s campaign promised huge crowds at his rally in Tulsa, Okla., on Saturday, but it failed to deliver. Hundreds of teenage TikTok users and K-pop fans say they’re at least partially responsible.
Brad Parscale, the chairman of Mr. Trump’s re-election campaign, posted on Twitter on Monday that the campaign had fielded more than one million ticket requests, but reporters at the event noted the attendance was lower than expected. The campaign also canceled planned events outside the rally for an anticipated overflow crowd that did not materialize.
Tim Murtaugh, a spokesman for the Trump campaign, said protesters stopped supporters from entering the rally, held at the BOK Center, which has a 19,000-seat capacity. Reporters present said there were few protests.
TikTok users and fans of Korean pop music groups claimed to have registered potentially hundreds of thousands of tickets for Mr. Trump’s campaign rally as a prank. After the Trump campaign’s official account @TeamTrump posted a tweet asking supporters to register for free tickets using their phones on June 11, K-pop fan accounts began sharing the information with followers, encouraging them to register for the rally — and then not show.
The trend quickly spread on TikTok, where videos with millions of views instructed viewers to do the same, as CNN reported on Tuesday. “Oh no, I signed up for a Trump rally, and I can’t go,” one woman joked, along with a fake cough, in a TikTok posted on June 15.
Thousands of other users posted similar tweets and videos to TikTok that racked up millions of views. Representatives for TikTok did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Oh my! I didn’t realize it was THAT nasty. Thank you for letting me know.
I think I like the southerner translation lol. Thanks.
All your awe are belong to us.
This is just practice for actual voter fraud on Nov. 2.
What do you think they’re going to do with the metadata? Is Parscale’s IT team going to erect a vast blacklist if the same people try to register for the next rally?
THAT is the “dream world” scenario, IMO.
Anonymously is the only way I would attend a Trump rally.
A requirement that I provide valid personal information to obtain a ticket would be unacceptable. I don't want to be doxxed, and I don't want to be drowned in obnoxious funding requests (as the RNC once did to me).
What happened at this rally will not happen again. We now know that the left will try to inflate the probable attendance at Trump rallys, so people believe they have little chance to get in. We now understand that we should ignore those numbers and just go to the rallies.
All week they've been fearmongering about COVID19 spreading in the arena!!!
People wanting to be on the safe side just decided not to go! Duh!
I'm sure that was a significant factor, but I bet the main disincentive to attending was the expectation that about 50 people would be competing for each indoor seat at the rally.
Why attend a Trump rally in which you can only see Trump on your phone while you stand in a huge outdoor crowd? You have all the COVID risk with no benefit.
Why bless you heart darl’in...
Why attend a Trump rally in which you can only see Trump on your phone while you stand in a huge outdoor crowd? You have all the COVID risk with no benefit.
Too bad for the media, MAGA Voters will come out in full force on Election day! They have no idea how HUGE it will be!
95% of those Gary Johnson #NeverTRUMPers will SHOCK the media with TRUMP winning PA, MI & WI handily
rallys > rallies
To be honest, they rae trying to take credit where credit
isn’t due > IMO.
This is like the Arabs all piling on to take credit after
a terrorist incident.
Ok I’ll register repeatedly for tickets for all Joe Biden rallies. Two can play at that game. Me and my friends Haywood Jablowme and I.P. Frehley will be at every Sleepy Joe event!!!
Yoe! Right back atcha, darlin’.
over 6 million online i think, and that doesn’t include tv viewers
[If you have submitted some form of contact information,
you are then traceable. If you harm someone in the
audience, they have a better way of tracking you down.
You did something.
No no, i wasn’t even there.
Here’s your ticked request contact info.
Here’s the video of you entering the event.
Well here’s your photo harming someone.
What do you mean you weren’t there?
With these loons ANTIFA and BLM screwing around, we
can’t just ignore strong security and a method of
recourse.]
Thanks for your follow-up response.
love that kpop. lol
these people are pretty, pretty dumb.
[Thanks for your follow-up response.]
Note that he did talk about phone numbers.
I know that’s true, because I ordered two tickets. I wanted to bump the numbers.
They responded with a code for verification.
That to me was all that was needed.
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