Trump Rally Has Tulsa on Edge
Lurching toward a divisive cultural moment of his own making, President Trump will arrive in Tulsa, Okla., on Saturday night to try to jump-start his re-election campaign and rally his supporters, even as his desire for a big show on Juneteenth weekend threatens to anger many Americans who are focused on protests over racism and concerns about the coronavirus.
In coming to Tulsa, the president ignored pleas from local officials, shrugged off warnings from health advisers and dismissed the grim historical symbolism of restarting his rowdy “Make America Great Again!” campaign rallies in a city where a white mob massacred hundreds of black residents 99 years ago.
On a steamy Saturday afternoon in Tulsa, thousands of Mr. Trump’s most fervent supporters — many without masks and not standing six feet apart — were lined up for the rally even before doors had opened. The campaign was set to conduct temperature checks and hand out masks to rallygoers, yet health experts remained concerned that the event could serve as a dangerous incubator for the virus, rapidly spreading it from one cheering Trump supporter to the next, carried by the building’s recirculated air.
A few hours before the event, the campaign disclosed that six Trump campaign staff members who had been working on the rally had tested positive for the coronavirus during a routine screening. Mr. Trump, who was made aware of the sick campaign aides before departing for the rally, was incensed that the news was made public, according to two people familiar with his reaction.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elections-2020/trump-rally-has-tulsa-on-edge/ar-BB15LsJW?li=BBnb7Kz
Good maybe Trump will get it.
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Donald not mad that folks were exposed... Just that it was made public.
