Trump Campaign Rejects Claim That TikTok, K-Pop Fans Sabotaged Tulsa Rally

President Donald Trump’s campaign said that media organizations are spreading false narratives about Trump’s rally in Oklahoma on Saturday after a smaller-than-expected crowd of people turned up, saying that the CCP virus and protesters were the reason why fewer attended.

“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,” campaign manager Brad Parscale told Fox News on Sunday. “Reporters who wrote gleefully about TikTok and K-Pop [Korean pop music] fans—without contacting the campaign for comment—behaved unprofessionally and were willing dupes to the charade.”

Parscale continued, “Registering for a rally means you’ve RSVPed 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. These phony ticket requests never factor into our thinking. What makes this lame attempt at hacking our events even more foolish is the fact that every rally is general admission—entry is on a first-come-first-served basis and prior registration is not required.”

It came after Twitter users claimed they sabotaged Trump’s rally by allegedly reserving scores of tickets online before failing to show up. The claims were highlighted by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), who said that teens on the Chinese social media app TikTok and fans of K-pop were responsible for the lower turnout.

President Donald Trump points at the crowd as he enters his first re-election campaign rally in several months in the midst of the CCP virus outbreak, at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Okla., on June 20, 2020. (Leah Millis/Reuters)

Media outlets repeatedly highlighted the attendance by publishing photos of empty seats at the top of the auditorium.

[[I’m really disappointed that I now cannot read entire articles from the Epoch Times until I open an account with them.]]

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Correct. Promises of millions of people wanting to go only to have barely 7 thousand looks terrible. Especially in a friendly state.

Someone has massively f*cked up, and considering how well his events are normally organized, it reeks of internal sabotage.

I like Brad, but he needs less air time and more time doing that which he is very qualified to do.

To the best of my knowledge TT is an Asian hosted “social media” which appeals to teens to 20 somethings.

They often have “Tik Tok challenges” in which the participants upload images or videos of them doing whatever stupid thing is the challenge de jour.

In March as the pandemic was erupting there was a TT challenge to lick a toilet bowl.

I’m sure other FReeper will provide some disgusting examples of other TT offerings.

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