Social media users are claiming that teens across the country reserved thousands of tickets for Donald Trump’s Tulsa rally on Saturday night with no intention of attending, tricking his campaign into believing people actually wanted to attend the rally.
Political strategist Steve Schmidt trolled the president, tweeting on Saturday night: “My 16 year old daughter and her friends in Park City Utah have hundreds of tickets. You have been rolled by America’s teens. @realDonaldTrump you have been failed by your team. You have been deserted by your faithful. No one likes to root for the losing team.”
He then added: “This is what happened tonight. I’m dead serious when I say this. The teens of America have struck a savage blow against @realDonaldTrump. All across America teens ordered tickets to this event. The fools on the campaign bragged about a million tickets. lol.”
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez followed with her own tweet praising the Zoomers and K-pop allies involved in reserving tickets.
MsDee replied: “My 18 yr old granddaughter and everyone she knows did the same :)”
“My 15-year old and her friends in Denver also purchased an obscene amount of tickets. I knew teens were smarter than Trump, but I had no idea they could outwit his campaign staff,” PennyMoxie added.
The Oklahoma rally was intended to be the largest indoor gathering in the world during the coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 120,000 Americans, put 40 million more out of work and upended Trump’s reelection bid.
Trump’s campaign, for its part, declared that it had received over a million ticket requests.
But in the hours before the event, crowds seemed significantly lighter than expected at the 19,000 seat BOK Center. Campaign officials scrapped plans for Trump to first address an overflow space.
Brad Parscale, campaign manager for Trump’s 2020 campaign, claimed on Twitter that “radical protestors… interfered with @realDonaldTrump supporters at the rally. They even blocked access to the metal detectors, preventing them from entering.”
It prompted Rep. Ocasio-Cortez to respond: “Actually you just got ROCKED by teens on TikTok who flooded the Trump campaign w/ fake ticket reservations & tricked you into believing a million people wanted your white supremacist open mic enough to pack an arena during COVID Shout out to Zoomers. Y’all make me so proud.”
She added: “KPop allies, we see and appreciate your contributions in the fight for justice too.”
Take a look at the Tweets below:
This truly made my weekend.
