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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWho wants to go to Tulsa?
Really. I've been there. Given the virus and everything else, why would someone travel to Tulsa, OK to see Donald Trump praise himself? Tulsa?
Choosing that venue was a poor decision by Trump's campaign team. I was not in the least surprised to see that arena only 1/3 full. Nobody wants to go to Tulsa.
5X
(3,971 posts)Vogon_Glory
(9,084 posts)science fiction convention.
Since then I heard there were plans for a regional hobby meat (Assuming that the COVID 19 pandemic passes), but I can think of other cities of similar size that have more attractions.
Arkansas Granny
(31,483 posts)It should have worked out for him, but I think it reflects his waning popularity even among the base.
MineralMan
(146,192 posts)It's also the home of Oral Roberts University, for whatever that's worth.
LuvNewcastle
(16,820 posts)you should have met his cousin, Anal.
Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)I mean, really?
BannonsLiver
(16,161 posts)Im sorry you feel that way.
MineralMan
(146,192 posts)enough people to hear Trump speak from it's own population...
I'm not saying it's not a nice place to live, but why would anyone travel there to hear Trump?
I've been to Tulsa a couple of times. I'm not a fan of Oklahoma, though.
BannonsLiver
(16,161 posts)There were more than enough local Trumpers to fill that arena three times over. The most interesting question from the debacle to me is why didnt they show up.
TlalocW
(15,358 posts)Is that America is in uncertain times, and while their initial infatuation with Trump came from his ego and his (attempts at) owning the libs, the act hasn't changed. So now is it not only staid, but he's a one-trick pony that isn't actually doing anything to solve problems.
Also, it's tougher for someone like Trump to run against Joe Biden. He's an amiable grandpa type. He's not able to gin up the level of animosity he was able to with Hillary.
TlalocW
stopdiggin
(11,092 posts)and being an a**hole isn't nearly as funny with a virus, unemployment, BLM and a recession on the loose.
Even yahoos have to think once in a while.
brush
(53,469 posts)Last edited Sun Jun 21, 2020, 06:13 PM - Edit history (1)
his grift going, until now at least. I think he's gotten his last check after that debacle.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Though I'd suggest a 'new hobby', goalpost moving seems a waste of time that could easily take away from important things like staring down people visiting your neighbors (which isn't creepy at all).
5X
(3,971 posts)Tulsa is at least partially a liberal island in the state.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Who operates this Arena? Nuf said.
lame54
(35,137 posts)brush
(53,469 posts)downtown entertainment district with bars and restaurants around. And that new arena that trump failed to fill. I used to have a girlfriend there I'd go to see.
Mineral Man is full of SO₂
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)But its a real sport around here.
Arkansas Granny
(31,483 posts)which has, among other exhibits, a large collection of Native American artifacts on open display. You can easily spend a day there.
One of the best times I've had in Tulsa was seeing CSN (unplugged) at the Brady Theater. The accoustics are wonderful.
lame54
(35,137 posts)OKNancy
(41,832 posts)It's a little of the cultural hot spot in Oklahoma. First class ballet company, art scene, music scene.
It's also a gay-friendly town fwiw. Second largest Unitarian congregation in the US ( just behind Boston) if you want to bring up Oral Roberts.
One reason it flopped was because he did pick Tulsa instead of some redneck town.
dhill926
(16,234 posts)been there many times...cool town with cool people....
kskiska
(27,041 posts)late at night and couldn't even find a motel because there was a bowling tournament in town that took up all the rooms. I'd never seen it in daylight, and never had the desire or occasion to return.
Brother Buzz
(36,213 posts)The Woody Guthrie Center is dedicated to the work of one of the nations greatest folk singers and most influential songwriters. Born in Oklahoma, Woody Guthrie is best known for the ballad, This Land Is Your Land, which some people consider an alternative national anthem. But Guthrie penned hundreds of other songs, too, and one of them was about Trumps father, Fred Trump.
In 1950, Trumps father was Guthries landlord in Brooklyn. Guthrie didnt think much of Fred Trump when he wrote these unrecorded and unpublished lyrics, which were found in the Guthrie Centers archives in 2016 by Will Kaufman, a professor of American culture at the University of Central Lancashire in Great Britain.
I suppose
Old Man Trump knows
Just how much
Racial Hate
he stirred up
In the bloodpot of human hearts
When he drawed
That color line
Here at his
Eighteen hundred family project
The Trump development was called Beach Haven, a public-housing project for veterans built with federal loans. As a Merchant Marine, Guthrie qualified to live there.
A year into his stay, though, Guthrie began to understand that the curiously all-white neighborhood was by design. In the archive, Kaufman found notebooks Guthrie filled with what he wished the place had been, a community where a face of every bright color laffing and joshing in these old darkly weeperish empty shadowed windows.
TlalocW
(15,358 posts)There really isn't anything that screams, "Oh, gotta go to Tulsa... they're the only one that has <this>!" When friends visited me for the first time, I would jokingly take them to Oral Roberts University. His Prayer Tower has a self-guided tour of his life - six interconnected rooms in a circle. Its population is very open to religious grifters (yet there is a lot of progressiveness and a cool art/music scene) so the thinking was sound that the cult of Trump would have found success there.
It SHOULD have been Trump country, and if it had been 2016 when he was running against Hillary, he probably would have come closer to filling it just from the inhabitants.
TlalocW
onenote
(42,374 posts)ret5hd
(20,433 posts)Center For Reconciliation (pics below)
riversedge
(69,721 posts)Just turn on the tube--he is always praising himself.
I've no opine about Tulsa. Never been there
.....Really. I've been there. Given the virus and everything else, why would someone travel to Tulsa, OK to see Donald Trump praise himself? Tulsa?
Warpy
(110,904 posts)but perhaps if I lived in southern KS or southwestern MO it might look a little more exciting. Alas, I hail from Boston, NYC, and DC, among other places, and it's just not a place I find all that fascinating, and having Big Dummy there would be an added disincentive.
I have friends currently in the area who say it's the place to go to be seen by specialty medicine, but about all they say the area has to recommend it is cheap housing. It is, however, the bloody beating heart of conservative country, so if he can't draw an audience big enough to fill an arena that sold out for the Wiggles in 2011, maybe it's time to fold his tent and resign.