Exclusive: Trump plots virus-era, made-for-TV mass festival

[brooklynite]

Source: Axios

President Trump's campaign plans to turn this weekend's Tulsa rally into a massive pro-Trump festival complete with musical acts, and it's flying in high-profile backers and camera crews to show the world the fervency of his supporters.

Details: Organizers are leasing a jet to fly in surrogates the night before and multiple film crews are being brought in to record the event, people familiar with the plans tell Axios. Watch for these scenes to be quickly converted into TV ads.

Why it matters: The June 20 "Great American Comeback" event is partly a kickoff for a comeback tour amid the coronavirus pandemic. It's also a giant commercial for Trump's re-election campaign, an answer to protests outside the White House and a trial run for Republican National Convention events in Jacksonville this August.
* Temperature checks are being planned on site and masks and hand sanitizer were to be handed out, according to people familiar with the planning.
* The Trump campaign says 1 million people have signed up — a data grab for the campaign — and of those, tens of thousands are expected to attend.
* The Bank of Oklahoma (BOK) Center, where the indoor event will be held, holds 19,000 people, and the area next to it where the second stage will be set up can hold tens of thousands more.

The big picture: While Trump is scheduled to speak inside the BOK Center, additional staging is to be set up outside for other speakers and performers.
* These speakers, performers and surrogates will appear both inside and outside the arena, and Trump plans to speak at both the indoor and outdoor stages, according to a source with direct knowledge of the plans.
* The Trump campaign announced that more than 50 campaign surrogates plan to attend the Oklahoma rally, including at least a dozen Republican House members and Sens. Jim Inhofe, James Lankford and Tom Cotton.
* The event will be expensive. But the campaign says it raised $14 million on Sunday by promoting the Tulsa rally as well as the president's birthday.


Read more: https://www.axios.com/trump-tulsa-rally-mass-crowds-convention-test-f2fd68a6-6427-4908-ae84-6f25ac0ccd1f.html

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. funny, I mis-read it as "mass funeral" !!!

[barbtries]

7. those come later, a week or 2.

smh

[Delphinus]

11. So did I!!

[William Seger]

12. Probably because "mass festival" is a weird phrasing

[dixiegrrrrl]

33. I'm predicting Fyre Festival Part 2.

No way are any of those clowns gonna be organized enough to make it work.Esp. in the heat.

[riversedge]

20. ha ha. my first fast read that it was some sort of Catholic mass.

[tanyev]

2. Coronachella!

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. Covidapalooza!

[louzke9]

36. A Lot of a lot of ....

LOSERS

[lagomorph777]

9. Thread winner!

[irisblue]

13. CoronaFest 2020, Livin' on Tulsa Time

[FrodosNewPet]

15. Wonderful Song - Terrible Tragedy brewing

Between the coronavirus pandemic, extremist a-holes (left AND right), and the false flag temptation that Trump (or at least Miller and Co.) must be feeling, I feel sorry for the people of Tulsa.

[irisblue]

16. Me too. I have liked that song since I first heard it, alooong time past

The health care providers in Tulsa & Oklahoma have to be nauseated.

[Dopers_Greed]

19. Tulsa Hospital Limits

Would make up for Austin City Limits

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Trump is Kool-aid to them

This event must seem like a Rapture in the desert of 2020. No one can stop them or talk sense to them.

[barbtries]

5. 1 million people signed up. sure. nt

[Merlot]

29. That really jumped out...sounds exactly like something trumpft would say

Which of course means it 's a lie.

[barbtries]

30. yep

when it's over he'll claim 2 million showed up

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. "Organizers are leasing a jet...."

Pro tip for owners of the jet: get payment in advance, in cash.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

8. Tulsamberg!

Source: https://floridapolitics.com/archives/195896-martin-dyckman-as-rhetoric-descends-up-pops-evil/nuremberg-rallies-large

[louzke9]

35. Too Organized.....

to be Trump knuckle draggers!

[Hotler]

39. And too many... nt

[Bengus81]

10. CV in Oklahoma up 62%. Go for it MAGOTS!!

Just keep any of those knuckle draggers 100 miles away from me.

[FrodosNewPet]

17. Sadly, that is the trouble

Me? I am a softie. Don't want people to die over their beliefs. I just wish they'd get their minds and their hearts right. Learn a little mercy, compassion, and pay-it-forwardism.

A lot of them will survive. That will be their "See? I'm alive, barely felt anything" ammunition against common sense. But the people they pass it on to, all around Oklahoma and all around America, won't.

[Bengus81]

24. Their beliefs don't extend to possibly killing others. I used to just laugh at these kooks....

at Trump rallies, that was well before the Pandemic. But this is serious shit now. Already saw a tent full of people from Kansas on NBC News, so how many of them could bring something back here?

[pstokely]

22. likely to be a superspreader event

and many of these MAGAts follow tRump from rally to rally like he's Jerry Garcia

[Roy Rolling]

14. Multiple Camera Crews?

C’mon, production professionals. Nobody needs work that bad, tell Trump to take a hike.

Every one of us cast/crew professionals are out of work because of Trump since March 13.

Let Ivanka work the camera and have Jared do audio. It’s a Trump production, only the best non-union production personnel.

[dalton99a]

18. It will be terrific, must-watch television

[hatrack]

21. Derpstock

Burning Men (And Women And Children)

Intubation Nation

El Camino De Douchebagio

Bonnaroops!

Glastonburial Festival

[louis-t]

26. Stupidpalooza.

[Bengus81]

23. Republican Mayor of Tulsa wil NOT be attending

Hmmm...a Republican with a brain. Going to meet Trump where he lands and that's it. He'll live and be in good health for another day.

[louis-t]

25. Yeah, might as well kill off some musicians and street performers

while yer at it, asshole. The circus is in town.

[NNadir]

27. It would be grand if that old piece of shit Inhofe infects himself.

The mortality rate is highest among old men.

[hermetic]

28. Article says Tom Cotton

will be there. He has tested POSITIVE for CV. But he's still going?

[BarbD]

31. There's no holding back Trump's supporters.

This will be their proof that Democrats are persecuting poor Donny and the pandemic is a hoax.

[skypilot]

32. Dying to see who the "musical acts" will be.

*

[hatrack]

34. I think Lee Greenwood's still alive . . .

Prussian Blue, alas, is no longer performing.

Darn.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_Blue_(duo)

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

37. Just some poor suckers who won't get paid in the end. nt

[pstokely]

38. some cover bands from Branson

Branson doesn't even have hasbeen country acts anymore