How 'Plaid Shirt Guy' Got Prime Seating at a Trump Rally [View all]
Internet, meet Tyler Linfesty.
He’s a 17-year-old high school senior at Billings West High School. Though he identifies as a social democrat, he said he didn’t want to miss the chance to see a speech by the president of the United States. So he and some friends signed up to attend Mr. Trump’s rally on Thursday.
That morning, Mr. Linfesty said, he got an email saying that he had been selected for V.I.P. status, which meant that he would get to meet the president and have access to premier seating. He said that he did not apply for the status and that he believed he was chosen by chance.
He got to take a brief picture with the president before the rally and asked organizers whether he and his friends could sit together behind the stage. In fact, their seats could not have been more prominent.
“I think it was basically random that we got placed right behind him and on television,” Mr. Linfesty said on Saturday.
Mr. Linfesty said organizers instructed the crowd to clap and cheer, but he said he could not bring himself to applaud for things that he did not agree with. He said he did not know he was so visible until friends texted him in the middle of the speech.
“That was not me trying to protest,” Mr. Linfesty said. “That was just my honest reactions to the things that he was saying.”
At one point during the speech, he put on a pin showing support for the Democratic Socialists of America. Finally, a woman slid into the aisle and whispered something to him. He walked off and she replaced him in the crowd: a new face, now smiling pleasantly in the background.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/how-plaid-shirt-guy-got-prime-seating-at-a-trump-rally/ar-BBN56T6?li=BBnbcA1
They must play this at Trump rallies.
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