Social media users claim that they broke a full house at the Trump rally: how did they succeed

Users of the Tik-Tok social network and lovers of South Korean popular music K-Pop claim that it was thanks to their efforts that the audience at the first recent rally of US President Donald Trump was not as large as expected. Representatives of the US president disagree with this theory. Writes about it with the BBC.

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Saturday, June 20, in the evening Trump had a meeting with his supporters at the BOK Center stadium in Tulsa (Oklahoma), accommodating about 19 thousand people. However, the audience was not completely filled, and some of the seats remained empty. The Tulsa City Fire Brigade reports that 6 people attended the rally, but Donald Trump’s campaign representatives say there were many more.

Because of the quarantine introduced to combat the spread of coronavirus, the last time Trump held a rally about three months ago.

According to political strategist Steve Schmidt, teenagers across the United States ordered tickets to an event with Trump, although they did not actually plan to attend - and did this on purpose so that there would be empty seats in the hall. Schmidt, a well-known opponent of the current president, said that his daughter was among those who took part in the action.

In response to the Trump campaign's tweet that 800 tickets had been given out for the rally, Schmidt wrote: “My 16-year-old daughter and her friends...received hundreds of tickets. American teenagers made you!”

There are a lot of comments under this tweet, the authors of which confirm the words of Schmidt and say that their children did the same. Some, however, note that people of different ages participated in the action.

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“It wasn’t just teenagers. I’m 60 and have 300 tickets,” wrote social media user Teresa Moore.

Congresswoman Democrat Alexandria Okasio-Cortez also wrote that young people and K-pop fans have flooded Trump's campaign with fake ticket orders.

Before the rally in Tulsa, Trump said that millions of his supporters intend to take part in it.

“False ticket requests never affect our calculations,” tweeted Trump presidential campaign chairman Brad Parscale. He explained that people are allowed into Trump rallies on a first-come, first-served basis, and blamed the lack of a full house on demonstrators and journalists who discouraged people from going to the rally amid the pandemic.

The leftists and online trolls who celebrate victory thinking they somehow influenced turnout don't even know what they're talking about or how organizing our rallies works,” Parscale said. — If you register to participate in a rally, you need to confirm this using your mobile phone number, and we are constantly calculating fake numbers. It was the same with the Tulsa rally, where we got rid of tens of thousands of numbers and calculated our possible audience.”

One of the campaigners on social media, Elijah Daniel, explained that many opponents of Trump booked tickets to overestimate the possible audience of the rally and thus make fun of the president, who often likes to talk about the huge number of his supporters.

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“A big campaign that engaged the K-pop community and Tik-Tok users was to show him bragging about his numbers, including fake numbers that were obviously artificially inflated by Tik-Tok.” , said Daniel.

It's unclear how many of the hundreds of thousands of rally applications Trump cited were fake. However, just one Tik-Tok video posted on June 12, which encouraged people to make false bookings for tickets, received more than 700 likes.

First, Trump headquarters announced that the rally would be held on June 19. On this day, the African American community in the United States celebrates a holiday called Juneteenth and marks the final abolition of slavery in the United States.

After numerous protests by politicians and activists, Trump's election headquarters nevertheless agreed to reschedule the event until June 20.

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