A Trump supporter-turned-truck convoy organizer is being trolled after his plan to “choke” Washington D.C. with a massive truck caravan to protest COVID mandates completely flopped.
The MAGA truck convoy was scheduled to arrive in the D.C. metro area around noon, with the hopes of causing a gridlock blockade like the Canadian anti-vaccine mandate trucker demonstration that caused chaos in Ottawa,” The Daily Beast reports.
The organizer, Pennsylvania-based trucker and fervent MAGA advocate Bob Bolus, vowed that his makeshift “freedom convoy” making a beeline from Scranton, Pennsylvania to D.C. this week would “choke” the nation’s capital like a boa constrictor in protest of vaccine mandates, according to The Beast.
But on Wednesday, when his overhyped convoy turned out to be a piddly procession of one, forcing Bolus to backtrack on this initial threat.
“We’re not putting a chokehold on D.C. today,” he told the Daily Beast by phone shortly after noon, before quickly getting his hopes up again about one day disrupting Beltway traffic: “Not to say that it wouldn’t happen in the very near future. It’s just going to be an idea of what’s to come.”
“We’re going to go with the flow. Today we’re going to go with the flow of traffic,” a defeated Bolus told the Beast. “If they go at two miles an hour, we will be at two miles an hour.”
As of midday, there was a single 18-wheeler —driven by Bolus— followed by two SUVs and a pickup filled with Trump flags as reported by Reuters producer Julio-César Chávez, who has been traveling with the Bolus convoy.
Bob Bolus is on the highway headed down to DC.
We have driven up and down the line, His 18 wheeler is the only one in the convoy followed by four or five pick up trucks and SUVs (that we can tell). All other 18ws passing him
His claim of having 25 trucks driving down is false pic.twitter.com/xvEeqxobnm
— Julio-César Chávez (@JulioCesrChavez) February 23, 2022
