Exclusive: Trump plots virus-era, made-for-TV mass festival
Source: Axios
President Trump's campaign plans to turn this weekend's Tulsa rally into a massive pro-Trump festival complete with musical acts, and it's flying in high-profile backers and camera crews to show the world the fervency of his supporters.
Details: Organizers are leasing a jet to fly in surrogates the night before and multiple film crews are being brought in to record the event, people familiar with the plans tell Axios. Watch for these scenes to be quickly converted into TV ads.
Why it matters: The June 20 "Great American Comeback" event is partly a kickoff for a comeback tour amid the coronavirus pandemic. It's also a giant commercial for Trump's re-election campaign, an answer to protests outside the White House and a trial run for Republican National Convention events in Jacksonville this August.
* Temperature checks are being planned on site and masks and hand sanitizer were to be handed out, according to people familiar with the planning.
* The Trump campaign says 1 million people have signed up a data grab for the campaign and of those, tens of thousands are expected to attend.
* The Bank of Oklahoma (BOK) Center, where the indoor event will be held, holds 19,000 people, and the area next to it where the second stage will be set up can hold tens of thousands more.
The big picture: While Trump is scheduled to speak inside the BOK Center, additional staging is to be set up outside for other speakers and performers.
* These speakers, performers and surrogates will appear both inside and outside the arena, and Trump plans to speak at both the indoor and outdoor stages, according to a source with direct knowledge of the plans.
* The Trump campaign announced that more than 50 campaign surrogates plan to attend the Oklahoma rally, including at least a dozen Republican House members and Sens. Jim Inhofe, James Lankford and Tom Cotton.
* The event will be expensive. But the campaign says it raised $14 million on Sunday by promoting the Tulsa rally as well as the president's birthday.
Read more: https://www.axios.com/trump-tulsa-rally-mass-crowds-convention-test-f2fd68a6-6427-4908-ae84-6f25ac0ccd1f.html
NRaleighLiberal
(60,018 posts)barbtries
(28,808 posts)smh
Delphinus
(11,840 posts)William Seger
(10,779 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)No way are any of those clowns gonna be organized enough to make it work.Esp. in the heat.
riversedge
(70,270 posts)tanyev
(42,594 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(60,018 posts)louzke9
(296 posts)LOSERS
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)irisblue
(33,018 posts)FrodosNewPet
(495 posts)Between the coronavirus pandemic, extremist a-holes (left AND right), and the false flag temptation that Trump (or at least Miller and Co.) must be feeling, I feel sorry for the people of Tulsa.
irisblue
(33,018 posts)The health care providers in Tulsa & Oklahoma have to be nauseated.
Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)Would make up for Austin City Limits
bucolic_frolic
(43,249 posts)This event must seem like a Rapture in the desert of 2020. No one can stop them or talk sense to them.
barbtries
(28,808 posts)Merlot
(9,696 posts)Which of course means it 's a lie.
when it's over he'll claim 2 million showed up
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,567 posts)Pro tip for owners of the jet: get payment in advance, in cash.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,567 posts)louzke9
(296 posts)to be Trump knuckle draggers!
Hotler
(11,440 posts)Bengus81
(6,932 posts)Just keep any of those knuckle draggers 100 miles away from me.
FrodosNewPet
(495 posts)Me? I am a softie. Don't want people to die over their beliefs. I just wish they'd get their minds and their hearts right. Learn a little mercy, compassion, and pay-it-forwardism.
A lot of them will survive. That will be their "See? I'm alive, barely felt anything" ammunition against common sense. But the people they pass it on to, all around Oklahoma and all around America, won't.
Bengus81
(6,932 posts)at Trump rallies, that was well before the Pandemic. But this is serious shit now. Already saw a tent full of people from Kansas on NBC News, so how many of them could bring something back here?
pstokely
(10,530 posts)and many of these MAGAts follow tRump from rally to rally like he's Jerry Garcia
Roy Rolling
(6,925 posts)Cmon, production professionals. Nobody needs work that bad, tell Trump to take a hike.
Every one of us cast/crew professionals are out of work because of Trump since March 13.
Let Ivanka work the camera and have Jared do audio. Its a Trump production, only the best non-union production personnel.
dalton99a
(81,565 posts)hatrack
(59,592 posts)Burning Men (And Women And Children)
Intubation Nation
El Camino De Douchebagio
Bonnaroops!
Glastonburial Festival
louis-t
(23,296 posts)Bengus81
(6,932 posts)Hmmm...a Republican with a brain. Going to meet Trump where he lands and that's it. He'll live and be in good health for another day.
louis-t
(23,296 posts)while yer at it, asshole. The circus is in town.
NNadir
(33,538 posts)The mortality rate is highest among old men.
hermetic
(8,310 posts)will be there. He has tested POSITIVE for CV. But he's still going?
BarbD
(1,193 posts)This will be their proof that Democrats are persecuting poor Donny and the pandemic is a hoax.
skypilot
(8,854 posts)*
hatrack
(59,592 posts)Prussian Blue, alas, is no longer performing.
Darn.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_Blue_(duo)
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)pstokely
(10,530 posts)Branson doesn't even have hasbeen country acts anymore