The following is a compilation of notes taken live as Trump’s triumphant come back happened. First sour note — there were considerably fewer people than he thought would be there.
It’s a disappointing turnout for a major presidential rally.
But it’s a massive crowd for folks willing to endanger their lives inside, without masks in the middle of a pandemic.
All depends on your perspective.
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) June 20, 2020
A fuller view of stadium as program begins pic.twitter.com/xGdqTpwi1L
— Steadman™ (@AsteadWesley) June 20, 2020
I view this as a plus that fewer people than expected are willing to risk their lives, especially in light of the fact that six members of Trump’s campaign Tulsa advance team have tested positive for COVID-19.
However, Team Trump has already suffered one set back. The overflow crowd address has been cancelled because there is no overflow crowd.
Uh-oh… something appears to be going horribly wrong with Babyfingers' efforts to stage a Dimwit Woodstock during a pandemic.
The outdoor stage built to address an "overflow crowd" is now being disassembled unused because there is no such crowd…
4/https://t.co/Om4mWNyg4Z— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) June 21, 2020
Donald Trump’s address to his cult was as batshit as you might expect. He regaled them with stories of how America is being “ripped off” by everybody from Angela Merkel to Muriel Bowser. He relates a discussion with Merkel, who has a Ph.D. in physics, as though she were a simple minded deadbeat. But not to worry, Trump, that economic mastermind is on to all of them and he’s going to get you your cash, America.
Trump went on to tell a horror story of MS-13 “cutting up” two women with a knife. Trump characterized MS-13 as animals and said that Nancy Pelosi called them people. Trump is predicting that MS-13 will overrun cities in America if he’s not reelected.
He bashed Joe Biden’s career, which he characterized as one of “betrayal, calamity and failure.” Then he said Biden “wants you to provide free health care for millions and millions of illegal aliens.” Biden will “always cave to the radical left” and he “will never protect you or your family.”
Of course the media got bashed regularly. They never cover anything great that Trump does.
Trump bragged about “taking out” Soleimani, the “number one terrorist.”
The projection here is epic. Trump says that there are American officials claiming that if Democrats are elected and Trump defeated that Iran and foreign countries will own America. Maybe he’s thinking of selling us out to Russia.
Then he went to “after birth execution” and taking away guns.
The “forgotten men and women” “will lose everything.” Then he went on to say how he was much more handsome than “the elites” and had “nicer properties than them.”
“We actually won on DACA yesterday.” “It’s like gee, come on back, your paperwork’s no good.” So “we’re gonna be refiling.” Great. We’ll see what that looks like.
“Biden is fully controlled by the fringe of his party. He doesn’t know where the hell he is, let’s face it.” Then he went on to say how “our country will have no energy” because “Oklahoma, Texas and North Dakota will go out of business.” Then he talked about windmills.
“Our country will be destroyed, they don’t know what the hell they’re doing — some of them do, but in a sinister way.” Then this one was great, “Racial justice begins with Joe Biden’s retirement from public life.” Projection, much?
Then he called out “great warriors” in the “fake impeachment trial” by name.
Trump then said that dictators used to come into the Oval Office and congratulate him on the economy and “then the plague came” but then he got “the single greatest number in the history of our country” which is his spin on a less apocalyptic figure on unemployment filings than expected. This was an anticipated talking point.
And of course taxes are going to be quadruped and everybody is going to lose their 401Ks if they don’t vote for Trump.
“You’ve always been a loser but under president Trump you’ve become such a great financial mind,” is a quote from Trump role playing two spouses talking about how they “don’t have the guts to vote against Trump.”
Trump claims that people were being lifted “from poverty to prosperity” at an incredible rate “before China sent us the plague. Thank you very much.” Then he went on to “we will finish the wall. 212 miles which is built and beautiful.” The length of the border is 1,954 miles.
Then Trump waxed Kennedy-esque and said that “the United States will be the first country to land on Mars.” Good. Take the red hatted people to the red planet and go there yourself, Donald.
Lord, this is boring.
Trump now rage-reading through the scripted prompter lines.
It is just so. effing. trite.
It's white noise. Boring as shit. A dumb, drunken piano man playing his one stupid ditty that was a minor hit years ago.
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) June 21, 2020
Frankly, I’m amazed that anybody came or stayed. But one good thing. The crowd was cheering perfunctorily and probably on cue. None of the real vitriol like when Trump would hit a vein of hate in 2016 and the rage and vitriol would geyser to the surface. Trump may have lost his bite. He sounded more like an old fool than a dangerous demagogue tonight. We soon shall see.
I saw the crowd, or lack of. I laughed.
As stated, the fact that anybody showed up during a pandemic is remarkable. I would love to know the actual amount of tickets sold.
My educated guess is that the crowd was around 7,000. I worked a lot of arenas that size when I was a music photographer.
Official numbers by the local fire department peg the crowd at a little under 6,300. Yeah, this was a clustereff.
The fire Marshall said 6,200 …..people
I think we just turned the corner on trump. He hasn’t had a rally in months, and this is the excitement for him, and his “message.” This is a major humiliation for him. I hope brad parscale gets fired.
Trump needs to blame somebody so he might blame Parscale. But, OTOH, that would put Jared in charge and Jared doesn’t want daddy-in-law to crucify him. Presumably Jared has to live with Trump the rest of Trump’s life, Parscale does not. Parscale can take the Ferreri and run.
But Jared knows nothing about running a campaign so … He was just Parscale’s sidekick in 2016.
Jared knows nothing about ANYTHING! That makes him the PERFECT man to be the “expert” on everything in Trump’s cabinet. GO Jared, run the campaign, dude!
On such equations, Ursula, has many an interfamial homicide been the result. That goniff Jared probably lacks the stones for such, mind.
“Goniff”? Wow, Bare-dude. I never figured you for someone spouting yiddish, and yet, your usage could NOT have been more perfecter. I’m telling you pal, when all this Covid-shit is over and I can come to the States again, Ursula has to put you and I together so I can teach you all the yiddish you need to know to insult ALL Republicans. When I finish with you, even the Lubavitch will think you’re one of us!
I know bits and piece of Yiddish, Bryan, mostly insults. And let’s face it, a hardcore thief like Jared deserves to be called nothing less.
We turned that corner last week in Lafayette Square, Cmae. All that happened in Tulsa was Trump getting his face rubbed in how much has changed.
Mae, are you kidding? I LOVE Brad!!!! He’s conning the con! He’s stealing money by the boatload from the man who’s stealing money by the boatload from ALL Americans! Are you kidding?! Go Brad go. Let him continue to scam the scammer til AFTER the election. And all those people giving Trump money for his campaign? What could be more beautiful than all their money going to an ever bigger con than Trump, to support his lifestyle??!!! I LOVE Parscale. The immoral thief stealing from the other immoral thief. Karma a is beautiful !!!
I heard that Kpop fans signed for a lot of the tickets. [laughter]
I noticed that they steered enough people into the upper deck right behind Himself that Fox could pretend it wasn’t half-empty.
Hoarse Whisperer said that at the end of the rally Fox News was panning across the empty seats. There’s some rationale for that and it can’t be a good one. It won’t get them any points with his nibs, that’s for certain.
The same size crowd as ‘The Wiggles’
And the same size intellects.
Further point of comparison: the Eagles sold out the place in 25 minutes. A basketball team with a 6-23 record got more people.
Although the Wiggles crowd’s intellect will expand and flourish over the next few years, the Trump crowd’s intellect will not…
As also noted by Hoarse (who deserves hazard pay for suffering through the whole rally), the Wiggles and a now-defunct basketball team with a 6-23 record got more people in BOK. Heads will roll over this.
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Welp, thank you for writing this of course, but even more so for having had the tenacity and stomach to sit through this monstrosity so those like me who couldn’t bear it just took themselves to bed and read our books instead of having to stifle our disgust lest we explode. Good info here; and seemingly matched now this afternoon by the reporting on MSNBC.
oh please Ursula, you make Merkel out to be so much smarter than she really is. She does NOT have a PhD in Physics. It’s in Quantum Chemistry, which is a teensy but more chemistry than physics, ergo she is NOT technically a physicist but a chemist. Like I said, nowhere near as smart as a physicist. A mere, humble, quantum chemist. Heck, anybody could get a doctorate in THAT!
Translation: She’s fucking brilliant!!!
Translation of translation: She might even be smarter than Trump???
Even the TRumpsters can’t lie 6,200 into the “Million MAGAt March”!