You’ve likely heard by now that Donald Trump‘s heavily hyped MAGA rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Saturday was an epic failure.
Prior to the event, the Trump campaign bragged that over 1 million people had RSVP’d, and that it expected 20,000 indoor attendees, plus another 40,000 outdoor attendees. It was going to be HUGE!
But according to the Tulsa Fire Department, the final total ended up being closer to 6,200 attendees. That number includes Trump’s campaign staff, secret service, stadium employees, Trump supporters, and, yes, lots of paid actors.
The Trump campaign pushed back on this total and said 12,000 people went through the metal detectors at the rally. But, honestly, we believe the Fire Department.
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Afterwards, widely shared video of Trump returning the White House around 1 AM early Sunday morning showed him looking tired, disheveled, and defeated.
Tears of a clown pic.twitter.com/L9iCguYtBb
— Dave Matt (@davematt88) June 22, 2020
The low turn out has been partially attributed to TikTok users and K-pop fans launching a coordinated online effort to get people with absolutely no plans of attending to RSVP to the event, according to The New York Times.
Of course, we’re sure Trump fatigue, dissatisfaction with his failed leadership, a crumbling economy, rampant racism, and, oh yeah, the deadly coronavirus also may have had a little something to do with it.
And now, the tweets…
A door count placed the Trump rally officially placed crowd at 6,116. Of those, 2,837 were paid gig actors & 986 were Trump Campaign 2020, 532 were WH/Trump propaganda machine employees, 183 were plainclothes security meaning: 1,578 WERE TOTAL REAL ATTENDEES!
— Mr. Resister™ (@ByeByeTrumpy) June 21, 2020
#TrumpRally photo as furnished by the campaign. pic.twitter.com/Pv3SjfdF3n
— Will (or Liam) Sterrett #MaskOn🎙️ (@OnAirWill) June 21, 2020
zoomers, teens on tiktok, and kpop stans coming together to ruin trump’s tulsa rally pic.twitter.com/wYyHw65LMJ
— emma (@ptrickjane) June 21, 2020
I think I sold that same place out in five minutes. 😹 #donkeyshow pic.twitter.com/JNOwjIQ3hB
— P!nk (@Pink) June 21, 2020
Told ya’ll he exaggerates about the size of things.
— Stormy Daniels (@StormyDaniels) June 21, 2020
This crowd is really regretting risking their life for this #TrumpRally #TrumpMeltdown pic.twitter.com/D2mDzSKkE0
— Sam Zee (@SamZComedy) June 21, 2020
That silent majority must be invisible huh? #EmptySeatMAGATour pic.twitter.com/cI6TWE0L4D
— Adrienne Reddick (@AsRed1913) June 21, 2020
6,200 people at Trump rally in Tulsa. Acts that had bigger crowds at the same venue in 2019:
– Sha Na Na
– The Pips (w/o Gladys Knight)
– Loverboy
– John Tesh
– The West Virginia Touring Company of La Traviata— Al Franken (@alfranken) June 21, 2020
FUN FACT: The actual official crowd count at Trump’s failed Tulsa rally was only 1,578 attendees — after you exclude paid gig actors, Trump campaign staffers, White House employees and plainclothes security.#TrumpRallyFail
— Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 (@joncoopertweets) June 22, 2020
I need to stop laughing about the Tulsa fiasco and get on with my day. Tick tock, time to be productive!
TikTok…haha hahahaha
Ok, for real, time to rally.
Rally…Hahaha!
Oh crap, laughing again!
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) June 21, 2020
Hey 2020, 2017 called. They want their weird obsession with crowd size back.#Emptyseats #CrowdSize #TulsaTrumpRally
— Ian G Haworth (@ighaworth) June 21, 2020
Before & After… The Tulsa Rally pic.twitter.com/WvloFx8KrS
— Paulie Jones (@eburgpaulie) June 22, 2020
They say a picture says a thousand words. This one says 6200… #TrumpRallyFail #TrumpMeltdown #TulsaFlop #Oklacovid #Coronapalooza pic.twitter.com/WAh0J1iXlz
— Andy Ostroy (@AndyOstroy) June 21, 2020
Next Klan rally I believe is in Phoenix. Scoop up two free tickets and never show up. #emptyseatmagatour
— Joey Poirier 🇺🇸 (@realjoeypoirier) June 20, 2020
Now, how about some memes?
Cam
One correction Queerty. You said…
“The low turn out has been partially attributed to TikTok users and K-pop fans launching a coordinated online effort to get people with absolutely no plans of attending to RSVP to the event, according to The New York Times.”
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The Trump campaign wasn’t limiting tickets when they hit a certain number. So TikTok users ordering tickets wouldn’t have prevented anybody else from coming, all it would do is hide the actual low numbers of real attendees from the Trump campaign. Remember, the campaign was saying a million people were showing up, so they didn’t stop anybody from ordering tickets.
okbye
True. I was thinking that the only thing inflating the numbers could do was keep them from making up some excuse to cancel when they saw the dismal ticket sales, hiding the lack of interest.
Mister P
I’d like to think that his supporters are magically getting some brains and abandoning him in droves. Unfortunately, brains are in short supply with that group.
dhmonarch89
I wonder how many girls he’s sent on the ‘Walk of Shame’….well, now he knows what it feels like.
GayEGO
Tee hee! Donnie loses again. He hates to lose so much I keep imagining that he will be afraid of losing the election in November, so he will resign and claim his victory of the last 4 years as the POTUS. Then he will go back to being a cheating businessman!
ShiningSex
He’s a loser and so is his KKKlan members. Get rid of the fake news creator, Donald Duck Trump.
IanHunter
Just admit that is fanatics are sobering up and finally realizing that he is an insane fool.
TonyPSP
Trump is such a size queen. Obama’s still bigger than Trump.
MISTERJETT
he’ll just blame it on Obama.
sillyme
I’m laughing hard after just reading the comment section in this one today after that fiasco for a tampon rally yesterday in fact, damn it’s all funny.
WSnyder
Trump has done nothing to bring people to support him. Almost everything he’s done has cost him support except to his core base of racist/bigoted supporters. He’s going to lose in November and it will be by a landslide. The GOP will loose more House seats and they will lose the Senate also. I’m not a avid Biden supporter, he’s not my first or even third pick. But compared to Quaffed, Narcissistic Cheeto, he will be a vast improvement.
The ONLY downside to Trump’s failed rally is the people who get sick and god forbid, those who die from it. And I’m not talking about the idiots who attended and ‘waived’ their rights in attending. I’m referring to the people who didn’t ‘sign a waiver’ but who get sick from coming into contact with those idiots who did. The innocent grocery store clerk working overtime to support their families. The EMT having to respond to yet another call that could’ve been avoidable. The ER Nurse, overworked, tired, and not able to wear PPE because their hospital can’t get enough. All because cowardly #BunkerBoy needed a fix of cheers during a pandemic.
Kangol2
Almost as delicious as that more than 2/3rds empty arena is the fact that Don the Con had Air Force won fly low over the rally site so that his team could see the thousands of MAGAts they were sure had gathered in the overflow area, but saw instead almost no people, and then, once he’d landed, he had to shut down that entire area because no one still would show up. Couldn’t have happened to a worse treasonous rapist who should never have become President of the US!
LumpyPillows
Here’s to covid and Darwin.
ricdardc1
It was an OMEN of Things to Come, Donnie…. The WAVE of BLUE empty seats outnumbered The Cult of Kool-Aid drinking Moonshiners at your Piss-ass Rally !…..
okiloki
Trump wants them to literally drink the Kool Aid. Looks like some of his die hard supporters aren’t quite ready to die for him yet. This was about the time when Jim Jones had his most loyal followers force the reluctant ones to drink their poisoned Kool Aid.