Donald Trump holds 'tele-rally' in campaign first amid coronavirus pandemic

[RandySF]

President Donald Trump says his reelection campaign will hold telephone town halls to speak to supporters as the coronavirus pandemic has made holding large, in-person campaign rallies more difficult.

Trump held what was described as his "first ever TELE-Rally" on Friday, delivering 23 minutes of stream-of-consciousness remarks on a variety of topics, including his administration's Covid-19 response to criticisms of presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden.

"I wanted to be with you, and this is really replacing our rallies that we all love so much," Trump told supporters dialed into a telephone call, noting that, given the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, "we're doing really well with the therapeutics and vaccines, but until that gets solved it's going to be tough to have those big massive rallies, so I'm doing telephonic rallies, and we'll call them the Trump rallies, but we'll do it by telephone."

The decision to hold a tele-rally comes on the heels of a Trump campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that saw depressed turnout and forced the campaign to scrap outdoor remarks from the President at the last minute when supporters failed to materialize.



https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/18/politics/donald-trump-telerally-campaign-event/index.html

[Nevilledog]

1. Hope some reporter called in and recorded it.

[Takket]

2. more like they are trying to get around the fact no one wants to go........

but i'm 100% behind this since a phone rally doesn't give the media the chance to give him free airtime.

[KPN]

3. Lol! "We'll call them Trump rallies." ....

What an asshole!

[Squinch]

4. People are bored to tears when they attend. Imagine listening to it on the phone?

[JDC]

5. 'Cause he is so good on the phone

[chriscan64]

6. It will be a perfect phone call.

Hold on for Don Jr. as he hits you up for money.