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(Reuters) - TikTok users took partial credit for inflating attendance expectations at a less-than-full arena at President Donald Trump's first political rally in months, held in Tulsa on Saturday.
"Actually you just got ROCKED by teens on TikTok who flooded the Trump campaign w/ fake ticket reservations & tricked you into believing a million people wanted your white supremacist open mic enough to pack an arena during COVID," she tweeted on Saturday. "KPop allies, we see and appreciate your contributions in the fight for justice too," she added.
CNN reported on Tuesday that a TikTok video posted by Mary Jo Laupp, who uses the hashtag #TikTokGrandma, was helping lead the charge. The video now has more than 700,000 likes.
originally posted by: hopenotfeariswhatweneed
Seems to be the case, a bunch of kids outwitted trump and his campaign team. Maybe he should fire them all and hire the kids instead.
originally posted by: links234
The POTUS and VP both intended on speaking to an overflow crowd that was non-existent.
originally posted by: 99problems99
Think Biden could draw even close to that crowd?
originally posted by: whiteblack
Don't care about how many attendance at all, Trump made a HUGE, HUGE mistake for host a rally in Tulsa. Period. Covid-19 cases skyrocketed in Tulsa. Trump know it and don't give a #. What a covidiot.
But the Trump 2020 team said it had weeded out bogus reservations. Mr Trump had said he expected one million to come.
The team's campaign director said in a statement that "phony ticket requests never factor into our thinking" as entry to rallies is on a first-come first-served basis. "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 RSVPed [confirmed attendance] 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."
originally posted by: ConfusedBrit
Why did the kids ADMIT to what they'd done?
Wasn't that counter-productive to what they were trying to achieve?
Idiots.
originally posted by: carewemust
originally posted by: whiteblack
Don't care about how many attendance at all, Trump made a HUGE, HUGE mistake for host a rally in Tulsa. Period. Covid-19 cases skyrocketed in Tulsa. Trump know it and don't give a #. What a covidiot.
Since 99.96% of humans in the USA will die of something besides Covid-19, no rational person is more worried about this little virus any more than we are with the flu, pneumonia, hepatitis, or any other communicable disease.