One of the highlights of my Father’s Day celebration was reading press coverage of President Trump’s colossal bust of a campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Was it the rows and rows of empty blue seats?
Or that one leader of the TikTok rebellion was Mary Jo Laupp, a 51-year-old Mayor Pete supporter from Fort Dodge, Iowa, who had this vision of the “19,000-seat auditorium barely filled . . . leaving Trump standing there alone on the stage”?
About 6,200 people attended the rally, according to the Tulsa fire department, even though the arena can fit 19,000.
I realize that a central tenet of MAGA is that the pandemic is a hoax created by Democrats, China, and the mainstream media to turn the country against Trump.
As in the following discourse on COVID-19, which comes directly from the transcript:
