AOC: Trump Got Pranked by Teenagers Using TikTok Into Thinking His Tulsa Rally Would Be HUGE
June 21, 2020
Trump, in better times for his political theater, at Nashville rally in 2018. (Tabitha Kaylee Hawk)
Oh, Brad. Sad, sad Brad. This had nothing to do with protesters.
As he began speaking at his first political rally since the country largely shut down three months ago because of the novel coronavirus, Trump immediately blamed, without evidence, protesters and the media for scaring away his supporters.
“I’ve been watching the fake news for weeks now, and everything is negative. Don’t go, don’t come, don’t do anything. Today, it was like I’ve never seen anything like it. I’ve never seen anything like it,” Trump said. “We had some very bad people outside. We had some very bad people outside. They were doing bad things.”
He later referred to the protesters outside as “thugs.”
There was one major protest group at one of the three entrances after the vast majority of people had already entered the outer perimeter. The protesters blocked an entrance for about 15 minutes.