He was stunned and yelled at aides about the blue seats:

[DURHAM D]

Link to tweet

[Beakybird]

1. Can you paste a few paragraphs for those of us behind the paywall?

[CatWoman]

3. ....

The President’s Shock at the Rows of Empty Seats in Tulsa

Inside the campaign, advisers believe disappointing attendance at the rally shows genuine fear of the coronavirus and the reality of Mr. Trump’s sliding poll numbers.

[CatWoman]

5. ....

President Trump and several staff members stood backstage and gazed at the empty Bank of Oklahoma Center in horror.

Mr. Trump and Vice President Mike Pence had canceled plans at the last minute to speak at an outdoor overflow rally that was almost entirely empty, despite claims of nearly one million people registering for tickets to attend the event in Tulsa, Okla., and the president’s false boast of never having an empty seat at one of his events.

The president, who had been warned aboard Air Force One that the crowds at the arena were smaller than expected, was stunned, and he yelled at aides backstage while looking at the endless rows of empty blue seats in the upper bowl of the stadium, according to four people familiar with what took place. Brad Parscale, the campaign manager who had put the event together, was not present.

[CatWoman]

6. ....

Mr. Pence spoke just after 6:30 p.m. in Tulsa and then left, the cue for Mr. Trump to come on. But there was a delay. Mr. Trump’s deputy chief of staff, Dan Scavino, peeked out from behind black curtains to scan the fan-free seats in the top rows.

Mr. Trump eventually entered the arena for a meandering performance in which he excoriated the “fake news” for reporting on health concerns before his event, used racist language to describe the coronavirus as the “Kung Flu” and spent more than 15 minutes explaining away an unflattering video clip of him gingerly descending a ramp after his commencement speech at West Point.

By the end of the rally, Mr. Trump’s mood had improved, advisers said. But after he left the stage, the fight seemed to have left him, at least temporarily. Leaving the arena, he wasn’t yelling. Instead, he was mostly muted.

[CatWoman]

7. ....

When he landed back at the White House and walked off Marine One, his tie hung untied around his neck. He waved to reporters, with a defeated expression on his face, holding a crumpled red campaign hat in one hand.

Exactly what went wrong was still being dissected on Sunday. But a broad group of advisers and associates acknowledged to one another that Mr. Trump had not been able to will public opinion away from fears about the spread of the coronavirus in an indoor space. And they conceded that myriad polls showing Mr. Trump’s eroded standing were not fake, and that he might be on course to lose to former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr, the presumptive Democratic nominee, in November.

[Raine]

10. THANK YOU so much for putting up the article 👍🙂

I couldn't have read it otherwise.

[CatWoman]

11. ....

[Hekate]

12. Thank you, CatWoman!

[CatWoman]

17. ....

[Beakybird]

22. This article is a shot of adrenaline. Thanks!

[Lifelong Protester]

56. Thank you!

That helped a lot.

[Nasruddin]

25. Sad

That is one pathetic attempt at lipstick and a fur coat.

[Cha]

30. Such a Shame..

.. BLOTUS had not been able to convince Cult45 that the CV was a "Dem/Media Hoax".

Thank you for the added excerpts, Cat!

[2naSalit]

32. Thank you!

[mountain grammy]

46. Thank you.

[eppur_se_muova]

51. "Exactly what went wrong ..." is that the jig is up. nt

[bdamomma]

60. I loved watching

that video of tRump of him disheveled and defeated, hmm.....maybe of visions yet to come, but I rather see him in a orange suit.

[SoonerPride]

8. Donny Dumbfuck haz a sad

[TheBlackAdder]

16. You know what that means?

.



.

[SoonerPride]

21. Hahahahaha

[Lucinda]

18. Don't know if it is true, but Twitter said Pence left right after he spoke

and didn't stay for the end of Donnie's speech - Hope so!

[SoonerPride]

20. I think by law he had to leave

Can’t be in the same place when a bomb goes off in case it kills both of them

And he could tell Twitler was bombing

Bigly

[Beakybird]

23. Ha ha!

[Dixc]

37. True!

Ha! and Ha!

[Lucinda]

38. LOL

[Canoe52]

39. Because Nancy would then be President!!! and they don't want that...

[Mr.Bill]

24. Trump fans afraid of the Coronavirus?

That's just crazy talk.

[demmiblue]

13. Good on you for asking... most people don't read beyond the tweet.

Or care to post snippets.

Sigh.

[chia]

2. It's ironic that if they'd made the slightest attempt at social distancing they could've

made the stadium look less empty up top. But that would've required a conscience and some brains.

[mwb970]

28. Wow, good insight.

[sarge43]

34. Put amateurs in charge and you'll have an amateur outcome. n/t

[Demovictory9]

4. hee!

[Newest Reality]

9. Gadzooks!

This is an interesting crux when it appears that they are falling for their own delusions and lies. Wow.

It's like that coke dealer that starts snorting lines and gets a habit for the product. That does not work out well for business, one way or another.

It's a GOTCHA! That's nice for a change since they have been pulling one over on the country for far too long and the lack of creative variety is also making their Barnum thing go very stale very fast.

All of us, including the followers and their fealty, are rather cashed out, tired, in danger and facing personal instability and these filthy, stinky sphincter clowns want to continue to play on the wave that Obama created even after they killed it literally? It's over. You can't pretend that it is yours when it fizzles out. It's pretty much gone and now we face a world of troubles.

Pride goeth before a fall. Everything eventually comes to an end. This cycle is coming full circle and what goes around does come around.

[sop]

14. Had Trump taken the COVID-19 virus seriously from the very beginning, not dismantled plans

to contain pandemics created by the previous administration, followed CDC epidemiologists' recommendations, tested and quarantined like other countries, mandated social distancing and masks in public spaces, he wouldn't have killed over 120,000 Americans and crashed the economy.

Today he'd be likely be ahead in the polls, enjoying his disgusting Nuremberg rallies and possibly even looking forward to a second term. But, then, that would have made him a decent, competent president, not the despicable, murderous bungler he actually is.

[JudyM]

49. Exactly this.

So succinctly stated and so true. In a sweet irony, rejection of all things Obama is what will get him in the end. 🤞

[hkp11]

52. drop the mic Obama

that's what you get when you mess with the most admired 1st black President!!!
Drumpf's rejections of all Obama will go down in history as the most evil, narcissistic, non-human, liar, piece of shit non-prez in history!!!

[lame54]

15. Democratic Blue

[sakabatou]

19. Trump is always the petulant child

[Yavin4]

26. Wait until he sees the blue states in November.

He will blow up like Mt. Saint Helen.

[ChazInAz]

35. Careful, there.

The way this year is going, we don't want to give volcanoes any ideas.

[BigmanPigman]

27. I liked these two comments in the article...

"For days before the rally, Mr. Trump was giddy about his first arena outing since March 2, telling one interviewer after another how big it would be based on the numbers that Mr. Parscale had cited publicly."

"Outside advisers to the president said his team was fielding calls from nervous donors and Republican lawmakers, who were asking whether the poorly attended rally indicated problems that were too big too fix with just over four months until Election Day."

[Lock him up.]

40. "asking whether the poorly attended rally indicated problems that were too big too fix"

Really?? Are they dumb or something?

120,000+ dead (going to 200,000+) without one sincere word of compassion...?
without a nationwide effective plan (even worse: doing everything to twart it off)?
40,000,000+ out of work and going back to work is nowhere in sight before a year or more?
$1,200 for 3 months? That's 12 weeks: They can't divide 1,200 / 12 = $100 per week in 2020?
and then WHAT???

Plus:
Where are their orangevirus tax filings he promised to release 5 years ago? Then 4 years ago?

On which outer planet do these utter morons live??

Lock em up.

[crickets]

48. Reality is just too ugly to ignore this time around.

There's no amount of political tinsel to hide the disaster and trump's inability to deal with it at all. Not only has he been no help, he has actively done things that led to the deaths of tens of thousands who did not have to die. He should rot for the rest of his days in prison for that alone.

[MyOwnPeace]

62. You got THAT right!!!!!

"He should rot for the rest of his days in prison for that alone."

Don't know what is the worst thing he has done - just too many to begin to figure.
So, in honor of those that gave their lives for his ineptitude, I'll take your suggestion as the #1 "WORST THING HE DID!"

[czarjak]

66. Hey, 2.5 million of those jobs are back...

“Vaccine or no vaccine”!

[hkp11]

53. repukes & drumpf's fix is

closing down polling places, stopping vote-by-mail rights, dropping voting records due to incomplete info or non-voting history, putting in their people at the polling places to contest paper votes, get lawyers ready for any way to call out voting fraud or counts.

[tclambert]

29. It must be Obama's fault. Somehow, he brainwashed people into thinking Trump is boring.

Or Hillary used her evil email powers to convince them Trump is dull. It can't be that repeating the same old crap at every rally just makes the audience yawn.

Just like always, he'll try to blame someone else for his failure.

[unitedwethrive]

31. Quote from Parscale:

“Leftists and online trolls doing a victory lap, thinking they somehow impacted rally attendance, don’t know what they’re talking about or how our rallies work,” Mr. Parscale said. “Registering for a rally means you’ve RSVP’d with a cellphone number and we constantly weed out bogus numbers, as we did with tens of thousands at the Tulsa rally, in calculating our possible attendee pool.” ...
The adviser said that the data could be put into the system to “tighten up the formula used to determine projected attendance for rallies.”


So, they just have to take the number of RSVPs and multiply by 0.62% to get actual attendance estimates?

[trueblue2007]

33. AWESOME AWESOME .... I CAN'T STOP LAUGHING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Progressive Jones]

36. Thank You, "Deep State". You've done well ! nt

[Marie Marie]

41. This makes me happy. And these days, I need happy.

[yuiyoshida]

42. stupid fool

愚かな愚か者は皆殺されるでしょう。

[BBG]

54. What she said

Trusting in what yuiyoshida posted is relevant, timely and spot on yuiyoshida.

[yuiyoshida]

64. I said he will get us all killed

especially if he wins another term.

[LisaM]

43. It's always bluster and exaggeration with him.

I don't think people should have paid half the attention to this as they did. It'll be 2016 all over again.

[3catwoman3]

44. I really don't care why the attendance was so low.

I’m just delighted that is was.

[bdamomma]

61. me too

he looked like a spoiled brat a little bully who was given a slap down he needs more slaps.

[Ahpook]

45. Who are

The people "familiar with what took place" in these posts? I very well could be naive as hell, but I would imagine Trump would not act out in front of randoms. He certainly would not let the people close to him talk to any reporter about his temper tantrums.

Who are they?

[gratuitous]

47. Folks who talk to reporters on background

You're right; Trump doesn't give his people permission to talk to reporters, and reporters have gotten handy (too handy) at quoting sources (even sources that lie to them) on background or not-for-attribution.

[cstanleytech]

50. Donald didn't get that every blue seat is a Democrat giving him the middle finger.

[Mariana]

55. "...rows of empty seats..." Lie! Fake News!

They were looking at entire sections of empty seats!

[LuckyLib]

57. Musical artist Pink had the best take: "Lots of folks dressed up as seats!"

[Blue_Adept]

58. I'm sure it being Democratic blue didn't help either

Such a sensitive person.

[cstanleytech]

63. More like a prima donna. nt

[bdamomma]

59. you would think

how he gets upset and enraged all the time he would have a medical emergency. There he blows!!

[warmfeet]

65. He needs to stroke out.

Sooner, rather than later.

[Skittles]

67. aw F*** I WISH THERE WAS VIDEO

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