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By Sean Murphy TULSA, Okla.©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
69 Comments
kurisupisu
Let’s see all those out on the street mask up and use commonsense to protect each other!
oldman_13
Six of Trump's staffers for this event have already popped hot for covid-19.
I'm sure many more will be sickened from this Tulsa rally.
ZENJI
Why are there Armed Soldiers?
David Varnes
Well, looks like Oklahoma's going to be having new record numbers of cases for the foreseeable future. Maybe they can hand out doses of hydroxycloroquine or whatever at the entrance, it'll make everyone feel better, right?
dbsaiya
Obese, high blood pressure, heart problems, high cholesterol, diabetic, combined with MAGA covidiot = high risk group. Thanks for now making Tulsa arguably the highest risk city in the U.S.
PTownsend
Trump's latest rally is another attempt by him and the Republican Party to further divide the nation. Divide and conquer: an age old tactic of despots.
The only parts of the country Trump's trying to unite are his fellow 'elite faction, and those from his demographic. But as the deaths from Covid19 continue to increase, as his economy continues to crumble, as more people remain unemployed, as more people come to realize the US economy will never again have the stability it had during President Obama's terms, as riots continue, it can be expected his base will become even more of a minority of the population than ever.
kyronstavic
Expect mass violence from the far left. They don't understand reason and evidence and they hate free speech, so they have to resort to acting like kids chucking a mass tantrum to get their infantile point across.
And they're only making a Trump victory more likely in November.
PTownsend
Unfortunately the rally will probably attract far right groups like the Boogaloo Bois, 3%ers, Proud Boys, KKK among others from the other 900+ white supremacist, national socialist groups in America, many with hqs and chapters nearby. These groups are known to instigate violence.
Trump and the Republicans are fully aware of the potential for ugliness to occur. They're throwing fuel on the long burning fires in their ongoing attempts to further divide the nation.
The Avenger
I think it is no accident that this would-be dictator and his motley crew are holding this rally, in this city, where all this death and destruction occurred against the peoples of color. This **** dictator , his supporters, and his Republican party are racists and oppressors. May they be replaced , all of them, in November to save our Democracy from this nightmare that is just going to get worse.
stormcrow
"Why do you assume only white people will be there?"
Assume?! Just turn on your TV and look for yourself.
kyronstavic
What, on CNN, MSNBC etc? Ha! They'll have to be editing the footage to make sure nobody sees them. And what about rallies of Black people for Trump? They don't exist?
My previous comment stands.
David Varnes
Okay, now this is hillarious. Seems that all of those '1,000,000 ticket requests' are as fictitious as just about everything Trump's claimed over the past 3 years:
https://us.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/06/20/trump-overflow-crowd-speech-phillip-sot-nr-vpx.cnn
Wolfpack
Extremism is running rampant in America- let’s hope Antifa and the militia types keep their distance.
Unless he leads the crowd in a chant of “White Lives Matter” you have nothing to fear. But the Bidets will surely be continuing to use race to divide America - its been the Democrat parties modis operandi for 240 years. Slavery, the KKK, Jim Crow, segregation, redlining, etc. It’s what they do. They blame it on America to shift the blame off themselves. Gaslighting works - they have convinced blacks they will help them but nothing ever changes.
ulysses
The trump campaign was advertising for minority actors on Craigslist. So I’m sure a few will turn up, after all they are paid to do so.
rcch
i,d say probably four, five thousand will get infected... but the funny thing is, they don,t care... how stupid these people can be huh...
ulysses
Those were the demonstrators against racism!!!
N. Knight
because... America
ulysses
right wing quoting Factcheck, hilarious!!!!!
Any reason you suddenly believe them now
Speed
"Make America Dumber Again"
bass4funk
Liberals get the celebs that No one takes seriously: Swift, Cheadle, Evans, Midler? You joking? Smh....
Except when it's reverse racism, then it's acceptable...oddly.
Monty
I am not an american and I dont clearly understand Americas political situation, but I have the feeling that Trump will be elected again for President.
ulysses
https://www.factcheck.org/person/donald-trump/
I suggest reading rest of FactCheck about trump and his daily dose of lies. If we believe the one about Craigslist ads we should believe the others too right???
ulysses
Battle of wits with the far right is an oxymoron.
bass4funk
But we have to tolerate the lack of intellectual dishonesty of the left??? Why?
Which seems to be helping him at these ever growing rallies.
ulysses
Care to point out facts???
Do you think flying the confederate flag, with its history of racism, is acceptable???
ulysses
ROFL, ever growing rallies.
That should end the discussion about dishonesty!!!
Bernard Marx
2020 is his to lose. I mean, if Joe Biden is the best they can come up with to run against him, there’s almost no point in having the election.
ClippetyClop
Trump's VirusLieFest live on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THmEyiBhbRM
He's babbling about CNN already, the lies are coming thick & fast
bass4funk
Whites under assault, getting fired if they don't submit to BLM or the cause, any white person that says: ALL LIVES MATTER, having an opinion on race relations, if you think you're being discriminated against, if you complain about being a target of racism and on and on whites are basically told to shut up, bow and submit or risk losing their jobs, careers, livelihood, so now we see a rise in reverse racism and now whites have to submit move out of that steamrolling train or else.
It's a part of Southern history, I don't have a problem with it, but having said that, if people find it a sensitive issue, then have a discussion, a debate, but don't be a vigilante and push your will and rip it down. Each of these Southern States should discuss the issue. I don't care because I'm not from a Southern State.
stormcrow
It’s like watching a bunch of people playing Russian roulette at the same time, but they’re completely ignorant of it.
Jimizo
On the subject of children, did you see the video Trump retweeted? It was a very nice anti-racist video featuring black and white toddlers but Trump retweeted a doctored version of it to attack the media. It stunk Twitter out. The parents of these very decent kids were disgusted.
If only protesters followed Trump’s example of reason, evidence and mature debate, things could be much better. I hope he doesn’t ask his followers to check out a non-existent sex-tape of these parents who attacked him. Maybe Trump can create a video of him hitting them with a golf ball.
Reason, evidence and maturity must be the order of the day.
ClippetyClop
Trump talking about steel ramps, leather shoes and wobbly walks right now. Been on about it for about 10 minutes, making it sound like he was scaling Everest. It's all so weird.
funkymofo
The lemmings are walking themselves off the cliff.
bass4funk
As if she is the only white person in the US.
Of course not, white or black
Jimizo
You brilliantly blew this idea out of the water. Your still unnamed non-partisan historians who regard the Bush 2 years as a success see him as a good president despite the economy flying off the cliff on his watch. You also regarded Obama’s handling of the economy as terrible and yet he thrashed Romney in 2012 and left office with higher approval ratings than Bush 2 who you and your still unnamed non-partisan historians regard as a success. The economy clearly isn’t the only metric for you.
As for the Fox News poll, the average of the polls now has Trump at under 50% approval on his handling of the economy. He’s been heading south for quite a while. I think it’s better to stick with averages rather than trusting a part of the fake news MSM, don’t you?
ulysses
Maybe the police officers in George Floyd or Rayshard Brooks killings.
Doesnt look like it.
ClippetyClop
Trump saying that he's having an average night. The crowd look really bored. Not enough 'He's behind you" ghost stories to get them baying. The mob need some Wall & Hillary stuff to wake them up.
ulysses
Dear president, trump seems to be at his racist best today.
Looks like the only person he can demolish in a debate is himself.
bass4funk
Thanks to China and all the lib governors and mayors that pushed for a lockdown, but at least the markets are happy now that it's almost over and are confident that Trump can turn this around and it has been at an astonishing rate, surprisingly.
Yes. regulations, lack of incentive for small businesses, corporate tax rate and more....
But they also have him at 59% when it comes to overall trust in the economy, so there is a difference and on that, he's in very good standing.
I disagree, Trump doesn't just have support in the South, even in rural California or rural areas far from the ocean and beaches libs like to lavishly live in, you have a lot of Trump supporters that even I was taken back when I visited it.
Numan
@Bass
Proof please! Where is the evidence that whites are under assault? Let's compare your evidence to the actual evidence of Blacks being under assault. Especially, at a mostly white rally attended by a significant number of racists who support trump because he is racist in city famous for the assaulting and killing of 300 Blacks during a white riot on Juneteenth holiday (the celebration of the emancipation proclamation).
Let's not forget that trump campaign is using a Nazi symbol for their rallies and campaign which was removed from Facebook and other social media.
Jimizo
No build “Build the wa....erm, fence, erm....physical barrier” chants yet?
He should throw a knob joke in. That went down a storm in the past.
bass4funk
And?
bass4funk
Floyd was unjustified, Brooks was justified.
By you as well
ClippetyClop
He's finding it hard to push their buttons tonight. The mob don't seem to care much about Biden, China or supreme courts. Sounds like that drunk man in the corner of the pub babbling to himself. Just a random stream of tedious nonsense but without the wall / Hillary crescendos.
ulysses
Dear president, trump said that he has slowed down testing as that will reduce the number of cases.
Wonder what his beliefs are, other than racism, Ignorance, Stupidity....
Numan
@Clippety
He is made because not only twitter but also facebook is checking his BS.
The only way that trump can get his lies out to the public now is through rallies!
He will probably sell out the US to China to allow him to use TikTok as a platform to spread disinformation for the election. Facebook and Twitter has already removed thousands of fake Chinese accounts connected to spread misinformation.
funkymofo
'Too many people were testing positive, I told them to slow down the testing'
Donald Trump, today in Tulsa.
Sociopath.
Halwick
The leftists demand freedom of speech and the right to protest and hold their rallies. But they don't feel Trump and his supporters should have the same rights, have their rally and want to suppress it.
Interesting with all the "concern" over the Trump rally potentially causing a spike in the COVID cases, yet no concern when the BLM had their mass protests and George Floyd public funerals.
So Trump caused it? bwahahahaha
And Biden is only going to allow handpicked prescripted questions.
Busby
Gee, who could have predicted this? Maybe just Dr Fauci and the entire CDC, and medical experts everywhere. Well, one more perk for working for Trump - you get infected with COVID, then when you're let go, you'll be called a "wacko and liar". And all the Trump supporters attending get the accolade; "Super-spreader"...
This is like going for a walk when the tornado sirens are going off....
"Abruptly cancelled" - what Trump will be hearing about his term as President on Nov 3rd...
Serrano
The supporters won, the protesters lost. :D
Turnout at the rally was lower than the campaign predicted, with a large swath of standing room on the stadium floor and empty seats in the balconies
We're trying to social distance here, I would think you would approve of that. :D
Okay, now this is hillarious. Seems that all of those '1,000,000 ticket requests' are as fictitious as just about everything Trump's claimed over the past 3 years
Your evidence is a fake CNN video? Hahahahahahahahaha
Trump sounding more like band-on-the-run.
On the run to a landslide re-election victor, Baby! :D
umbrella
ALL LIVES MATTER!.
Anyone who says black lives matter is being a racist that the left amusingly love to bandy about.
Busby
What a complete and utter disaster - Trump rambling on incoherently while half the arena is empty...
Then six of his staff members are infected with COVID....
He has to be so humiliated that he'll slink back to the WH bunker and hide for the next two weeks...which should be just about right for him to start exhibiting symptoms...
Then its off to his next rally - at Chernobyl....radiation suits optional...
Jimizo
I saw a fake CNN video. It was footage of black and white toddlers who were playing together. Trump retweeted an misleading edited version of it to attack the media. The parents of these kids thought it was disgusting that the president of the US would use their kids in this way.
Facebook and Twitter correctly threw this pathetic trash out. It stunk.