bleachers thinning, and benches entirely empty : the photographs do not lie. The meeting as expected by Donald Trump in the last three months of confinement, on Saturday night in Tulsa (Tulsa, Oklahoma), has not met the crowd expected. On the approximately 19.000 seats for the BOK Center – arena Tulsa – the venue of the rally, about one-third were unoccupied. A surprise for the campaign team of the american President, who had predicted a record number of visitors, referring to more than one million tickets distributed.
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What happened to explain such a flop ? The controversy over the risks of the spread of the Covid-19 was she carried away ? Or protesters “radicals”-have they deterred the supporters of the presidential candidate next November, as mentioned by a spokesperson of Trump, to justify this messed up ?
On the social networks, another explanation has the wind in its sails, made by a number of adolescents who are anti-Trump : they claim to be themselves the origin of this lack of attendance. According to their account, they would deliberately “leak” the meeting of the republican candidate by booking online tens of thousands of tickets… with the intention not to go there. A real operation “sabotage” the meeting also took place on the social network TikTok, acclaimed by the age of 20 years, and in the networks of fans of music groups in K-pop (pop Korean).
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On TikTok, throughout the week, calls to order tickets to scuttle the meeting of Trump are indeed multiplied ; some of the videos garnering millions of views. In a viral sequence, this teenager explains with irony how to reserve seats to leave empty seats in signing up for free telephone number, and zip code of the Tulsa area :
