Trump Campaign Roasted Over Smaller Than Expected Crowd at Tulsa Rally

In the days leading up to President Donald Trump’s first campaign rally in months, he touted a reported 1 million ticket requests despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. 

But many on social media were quick to point out that the BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was not filled to capacity.

Check out some of the pictures below:

Birdseye view of the more than half-empty Trump rally…pic.twitter.com/4JtbdCQpoO

— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) June 20, 2020

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. ☺️ https://t.co/jGrp5bSZ9T

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 21, 2020

The Coalition of the Decent is attacking and winning. Trump has been stripped bare. He stands naked and exposed for all to see. He is a failure. He is going down.

— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) June 20, 2020

You don’t build an outdoor stage for the overflow crowd unless you think you’re getting an overflow crowd. https://t.co/UuBv2qpa6Q

— Eli Stokols (@EliStokols) June 20, 2020

They cancelled Trump’s outdoor overflow speech and taking down the overflow stage at #TulsaTrumpRally because there isn’t even enough people to fill the inside LMFAOO https://t.co/aLPeup9Ppa

— elijah daniel (@elijahdaniel) June 20, 2020

https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1274484402899337216

https://twitter.com/molly_knight/status/1274480282352025600

Trump’s campaign manager, Brad Parscale, offered an explanation for the smaller than expected crowd size in a tweet, “Radical protestors, fueled by a week of apocalyptic media coverage, interfered with [Donald Trump] supporters at the rally. They even blocked access to the metal detectors, preventing people from entering.”

Radical protestors, fueled by a week of apocalyptic media coverage, interfered with @realDonaldTrump supporters at the rally.

They even blocked access to the metal detectors, preventing people from entering.

Thanks to the 1,000s who made it anyway!https://t.co/eM2nohMEy6

— Brad Parscale (@parscale) June 20, 2020

Trump later claimed that “a bunch of maniacs” who were “very violent people” had contributed to the smaller crowd sizes and overflow location.