all set to retweet this tonight https://t.co/Y1nIyw6le7— George Conway (@gtconway3d) June 20, 2020
President Trump tells @axios he won't wear a mask at tonight's Tulsa rally.— Nicole Sganga (@NicoleSganga) June 20, 2020
"You know how many people I've met? I've met a lot, a lot of people. And so far, here I sit, right? Here I sit."
Later in the interview, Trump adds, “It's the most contagious virus anyone's ever seen."
Watching thousands of die-hard, non-social distancing Trump supporters pour into the BOK Center in Tulsa for tonight's rally is like watching passengers board the RMS Titanic in 1912 if they had known in advance that the great ship was going to slam into an iceberg and sink. pic.twitter.com/enM5N1gDIa— Stephen Schwartz (@AtomicAnalyst) June 20, 2020
HE ATTRACTS ONLY THE BEST VOTERS
"I get political prophecies. God showed me. He [Epstein] was choked out by the muscle man, bigger than the Incredible Hulk... his first cellmate."— Andrew Kimmel (@andrewkimmel) June 20, 2020
Johnny Rice is running for Congress. #TrumpRallyTulsa pic.twitter.com/d5d4r9vcUg
"I don't support him [Trump]... not exposing [Bill] Gates financing it with Soros. The money going to Wuhan Lab. Fauci, as the leader of the NIH, sending the money to the Wuhan Lab as a biological weapons scientist who has the patent to HIV & that HIV was in the COVID-19." #Tulsa pic.twitter.com/ctEmfMUQ1c— Andrew Kimmel (@andrewkimmel) June 20, 2020
I asked Johnny if plans on wearing a mask in the rally.— Andrew Kimmel (@andrewkimmel) June 20, 2020
"You don't need to wear the mask. It doesn't block the COVID-19... It's a nanotech bioweapon... It's all about shutting us up. 'Don't Talk. Put the mask on. Stay in your houses.'"#TrumpRallyTulsa pic.twitter.com/XfKAmvYKok
No, we have an enduring and profound stupidity problem.— Jon Crowley (@plaidphoenix) June 20, 2020
”The HIV is in the Covid-19"— Speculawyer 🇳🇴-American (@speculawyer) June 20, 2020
Can someone autotune this into "put the lime in the coconut"? 😁
COVIDIOT!
At the Trump rally, Brian Clothier, 61, is wearing an adult diaper over his pants that reads “Scientists say [farts] spread the virus. I COVID my ass to stop the spread.” pic.twitter.com/2Ljok0vKKe— robertklemko (@RobertKlemko) June 20, 2020
Someone bought the domain for the website on this guy's diaper, and it now tells people to wear masks and vote Bidenhttps://t.co/9OtmFSLija— Betsy Woodruff Swan (@woodruffbets) June 20, 2020
Checks out pic.twitter.com/5kTGsaEMOW— NoMaiden (@no_maiden) June 20, 2020
His phone number was fairly easy to find by Googling, if anybody wants to text him good natured-ly and report back.— Tim Macinta (@macinta) June 20, 2020
TRUMP LIES WITH AN UMBRELLA!
Trump on firing of Geoffrey Berman: "I'm not involved." (AG Barr says Trump gave the order to fire Berman.) pic.twitter.com/EVv6k5g9Zv— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 20, 2020
TRUMP: "The US economy is doing amazingly well ... the numbers that we're doing are record-setting numbers. We have record-setting job numbers."— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 20, 2020
The unemployment rate is over 13 percent! #UpIsDown pic.twitter.com/l0Rg1Dz2Jv
LIES ABOUT WHY ONE MILLION PEOPLE DID NOT ATTEND!
Almost One Million people request tickets for the Saturday Night Rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 15, 2020
Shot, chaser pic.twitter.com/wzXWIFWwGb— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 20, 2020
NEW: Trump Campaign releases statement blaming “radical protestors” and “relentless onslaught from the media” for keeping supporters from attending. #NBCNews pic.twitter.com/rlZzkuhCYT— Morgan Chesky (@BreakingChesky) June 20, 2020
Wut? the National Guard is literally there and you're telling me that a couple hundred protesters are preventing 900,000+ people from going into the rally?— Րυɱ૦Ր Һคς ɿ੮ 🏴 (@BrandiLynn4Ever) June 20, 2020
That silent majority is really silent..— Root4resistance (@asianmullet) June 20, 2020
Lots of social distancing at #TrumpsCoronavirusRally pic.twitter.com/ewTEJAaGb7
— Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 (@DemWrite) June 21, 2020
Compilation of people bragging about a million people signing up for the rally pic.twitter.com/X9EHPSvv8Z— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) June 21, 2020
#FLASHLOL - I have a head count for bodies inside the BOK arena, Tulsa tonight for Trumps 'rally'.— JΞSŦΞR ✪ ΔCŦUΔL³³°¹ (@th3j35t3r) June 21, 2020
An unprecedented 6,611 suckers.
That's the number this sitting president, in a red state, in an election year could drum up. pic.twitter.com/gJvbRNZsFE
Can’t stop picturing Brad Parscale explaining “TikTok teens and K-pop stans” to the president. https://t.co/kpdqzK4BPl— Matt Ford (@fordm) June 21, 2020
INVISIBLE PROTESTERS BLOCKING THE DOORS!
Campaign confirms the outdoor remarks have been cancelled. Statement per pooler @jdawsey1 pic.twitter.com/Tf72AGhJlW— Courtney Subramanian (@cmsub) June 20, 2020
VERY MAD! I'M IN AIR FORCE ONE! Just flew over MY rally in Tulsa! STREETS EMPTY! WHERE IS EVERYBODY? I'M SUPPOSED TO HAVE BIG CROWDS! ERIC TRUMP PROMISED ME A MILLION PEOPLE! HE SAYS 1000s of seats are empty in the arena! ERIC IS AN IDIOT! #TulsaTrumpRally #TrumpsCoronavirusRally— Donald J. Trump ᵖᵃʳᵒᵈʸ (@realDonaldTrFan) June 20, 2020
THE PARKING LOT IS LYING!
This is what overflow looks like at the Trump rally in Tulsa right now. Pence is scheduled to speak out here in about 10 minutes. People still streaming in but not nearly the number the campaign said they were expecting. pic.twitter.com/hbypfviOxv— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) June 20, 2020
I'll save him the trouble and fix this for him! pic.twitter.com/Eu4QJh4IlY— Carlisa (@2bCarlisa) June 20, 2020
THE OUTDOOR STAGE IS LYING!
Perfect chyron pic.twitter.com/s0gpiJNeen— VickiAnn (@VickiAnn57) June 20, 2020
No shit . #TrumpMeltdown pic.twitter.com/Pe16ylkeMl— angelica maria🇵🇷 (@7rhapsody7) June 21, 2020
Secret Service has moved crowd back from the overflow stage so it can be broken down. pic.twitter.com/iIxXfnpOPn— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) June 20, 2020
Even I (a Red Sox fan since '75) smiled at this.— allan wood (@allanjameswood) June 21, 2020
Live from Tulsa: Milli-Vanilli 2020 pic.twitter.com/cDkjh4NpcZ— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) June 20, 2020
THE ARENA SEATS ARE LYING!
As others are reporting, looks like attendance here in Tulsa is well below campaign's expectations. Here's the main floor at the arena currently pic.twitter.com/EASfSHL5nN— Steadman™ (@AsteadWesley) June 20, 2020
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) June 20, 2020
Inside the arena for President Trump’s rally in Tulsa. pic.twitter.com/ioCzsX29AB— Jeff Mason (@jeffmason1) June 20, 2020
Tour of empty seats. #TrumpRally pic.twitter.com/UNPDHl43kG— Stephen Rodrick (@stephenrodrick) June 20, 2020
I’ve been to minor league hockey games with more fans, and the tickets weren’t free https://t.co/O1fNeTHR1y— George Conway (@gtconway3d) June 20, 2020
How embarrassing for the President pic.twitter.com/6g1qTlZrTv— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) June 20, 2020
D-LIST TRUMPS LIE!
"This is the president of law and order," Lara Trump just said, minutes after the crowded cheered for extrajudicial punishment https://t.co/24IvakQ7DA— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 20, 2020
In a minute and a half he does this, talks about how the Trumps are preserving the “moral fiber” of America and does the War on Christmas bit https://t.co/GqdDmEYCkS— K. Thor Jensen (@kthorjensen) June 20, 2020
The logic of @EricTrump— Emmett Till (@JusticeTill) June 21, 2020
Apparently protesting for equal rights makes you an animal, but refusing to provide your DNA to exonerate you from raping a 13 year girl is respectable.#TrumpMeltdown #TulsaDeathRally pic.twitter.com/lhkqWlHCZA
Eric Trump doing a live shot on Fox News talking about the incredible enthusiasm for the campaign & how the polls are wrong, with a view of thousands of empty seats behind him pic.twitter.com/OFhjZVyVAd— Roland Scahill (@rolandscahill) June 20, 2020
PENCE LIES!
and then what happened pic.twitter.com/HILqM98FlW— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 20, 2020
Pence just packed multiple lies into one claim in saying that "before we had a single coronavirus case in the US, President Trump closed down all travel from China."— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 20, 2020
Travel restrictions came after Covid cases were reported in the country & did not ban "all travel" from China. pic.twitter.com/DfO8GiiLC0
PENCE: "We will always put the health of America first."— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 21, 2020
Attendees literally had to sign a waiver stipulating they wouldn't hold the Trump campaign responsible if they contracted Covid at this rally. pic.twitter.com/cNN8u4AR4o
TRUMP LIES!
JOHN ROBERTS: "The BOK Center is about two-thirds full."— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 21, 2020
JESSE WATTERS: "Looks packed and definitely sounds packed." pic.twitter.com/HqMf7ZA6gT
Trump begins his speech in Tulsa by goading his audience into booing "the fake news" for pointing out that going to this rally amid a pandemic is risky pic.twitter.com/7ySuYMd0kY— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 21, 2020
With the economy in ruins, Trump's top-line first term accomplishment is now how many judges he's appointed pic.twitter.com/H7xXWVzKuV— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 21, 2020
Trump takes credit for Veterans Choice legislation that was actually signed into law by President Obama in 2014 pic.twitter.com/tBKNlR13pU— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 21, 2020
Trump conflates peaceful protesters with "thugs." He then pivots to bashing and mocking CNN. pic.twitter.com/K1MjZwovnD— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 21, 2020
— PolitiFalse (@badstokpix) June 21, 2020
"Minnianapolis" -- Trump still can't say Minneapolis pic.twitter.com/Z97Qc17hJD— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 21, 2020
Trump on Seattle: "It's probably better for us to just watch that disaster." (He still has no concept that he's supposed to be president of all the states, not just states that support him.) pic.twitter.com/zdFCv5nyn5— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 21, 2020
"Cove-ed" pic.twitter.com/jBHScfMgwj— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 21, 2020
Trump on coronavirus, which has now killed 121,000 Americans: "I have done a phenomenal job on it." pic.twitter.com/SkX9NS7PLA— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 21, 2020
"Here's the bad part: When you do testing to that extent, you're gonna find more people, you're gonna find more cases. So I said to my people, 'slow the testing down please!'" -- Trump pic.twitter.com/m5MOV9je70— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 21, 2020
Trump: When you do testing to that extent, you’re going to find more people. You’re going to find more cases. So I said to my people slow the testing down please. pic.twitter.com/RalPJeVH0F— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) June 21, 2020
no way this is in the prompter....— MacKenzie #AmericaOrTrump 🇺🇸🇿🇦 (@run_mac_run) June 21, 2020
By the same logic, if police stop arresting people there would be no crime.— Self Isolated Rock Lobster (@HakusanLad) June 21, 2020
Here's Trump downplaying the coronavirus as "sniffles" pic.twitter.com/lKZwqOsqwG— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 21, 2020
Good seats are available pic.twitter.com/23iiLMNJSS— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 21, 2020
Trump defends the Confederacy: "The unhinged left-wing mob is trying to vandalize our history, desecrate our monuments. Our beautiful monuments." pic.twitter.com/jfbe7qunXx— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 21, 2020
The President uses the term “Kung flu” pic.twitter.com/yMlGLCRix3— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) June 21, 2020
Trump calls the coronavirus "Kung flu" and then says, "many call it a flu." (Nobody with a working brain says that.) pic.twitter.com/2Wlmv7L4na— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 21, 2020
He’s got more names for Covid than people who showed up for his rally!— Rogue Barkeep - Mask Wearer! (@roguebarkeep) June 21, 2020
"The stage was higher than this one ... I'm weather leather-bottom shoes ... it was like an ice-skating rink" -- Trump whines at length about the media pointing out the obvious and noting that he had a hard time walking down a ramp last weekend at West Point pic.twitter.com/cv6rjY9zmg— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 21, 2020
"I said, 'general, there's no way I can make it down that ramp without falling on my ass, general. I have no railing.' It's true! ... I didn't really want to grab him ... I can't fall with the fake news watching" -- Trump is still whining about coverage of his ramp incident pic.twitter.com/hMMv6AmCFC— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 21, 2020
Here's Trump mocking himself for the way he walked down a ramp at West Point last weekend. He's been talking about this for about 6 or 7 minutes now. pic.twitter.com/dsj0cDFxfY— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 21, 2020
"I don't want to get water on the tie" -- Trump is now whining that people noticed that he seemed to have a hard time drinking water out of a glass at West Point last weekend. He then drinks water with one hand to prove he can do it. pic.twitter.com/MC3u3FR7RT— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 21, 2020
Trump admits that he shook hands with people at West Point last weekend, even though health experts say it's not a smart thing to do during a pandemic pic.twitter.com/f6rOA6Qw1Z— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 21, 2020
"We ought to come up with legislation that if you burn the American flag you go to jail for one year ... if somebody wants to burn the American flag and stomp on it, but just burn it, they go to jail for one year" -- Trump pic.twitter.com/sbETQDwUkp— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 21, 2020
Trump pleads with Jay Inslee to ask him to bring in the military to crush protests in Seattle pic.twitter.com/ZDemVC4bfF— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 21, 2020
Trump claims that if Biden gets elected, "money itself will be worthless" 😂 pic.twitter.com/Dhe8j3IDFc— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 21, 2020
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 21, 2020
"Our people are not nearly as violent, but if they ever were, it would be a terrible day for the other side. Because I know our people." -- Trump pic.twitter.com/1xDAPPixSy— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 21, 2020
While his audience sits in awkward silence, Trump brags about how he made the call to install new TVs in Air Force One pic.twitter.com/tHY8hmonXj— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 21, 2020
"Don't you understand, you dumb son of a bitch" -- I challenge you to try and make sense of this Trump rant pic.twitter.com/LJnS4W9oVn— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 21, 2020
Trump is always the victim and the hero in all his stories. 🙄— Kelly (@Kelly71892510) June 21, 2020
We've arrived at the doing Putin's bidding part of Trump's speech pic.twitter.com/3d28Ue64kR— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 21, 2020
Trump refers to 2020 as "two-twenty" pic.twitter.com/Lz01c0BTJc— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 21, 2020
"They get rid of the worst scum on earth" -- Trump hails ICE for brutalizing people pic.twitter.com/qBfu6gNxM2— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 21, 2020
Trump claims that pro-choice Democrats want to legalize "afterbirth execution." (That sort of thing is called murder.) pic.twitter.com/WrX0g1Y6y8— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 21, 2020
"I look better than them. Much more handsome. Got better hair than they do. I got nicer properties, I got nicer houses, I got nicer apartment, I got nicer everything." -- Trump compares himself to the "elite." #populism pic.twitter.com/9kA91zb4I3— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 21, 2020
Trump refers to Ilhan Omar as "Eehan" pic.twitter.com/NLepz0qDk8— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 21, 2020
"I think we're going to have a big victory in the state of Minnesota, because they have had it" -- a poll released yesterday found Biden up by 16 points in Minnesota https://t.co/7PEsi9VSIs pic.twitter.com/3w204ZnX26— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 21, 2020
Trump veers so quickly from wild blood-speckled racist fear-mongering to vapid self-aggrandizing reassurance I don’t think even his crowd is following.
— Dan Froomkin/PressWatchers.org (@froomkin) June 21, 2020
Trump on the media: "They want the stock market to go down, even if it costs them money. And they don't even know why. You know what? They're smart, and they're vicious. But they don't know why. I'm telling you -- they don't know why." #wut pic.twitter.com/7dvA6wuB2z— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 21, 2020
"We saved million of lives. And now it's time to open up, get back to work." -- Trump on coronavirus pic.twitter.com/f2Tp63ATed— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 21, 2020
Trump shits on blue cities: "The murder rate in Baltimore and Detroit is higher than El Salvador, Guatemala, or even Afghanistan. How are they doing, the Democrats running those cities? Your whole country will be like that." pic.twitter.com/1eid65zPgV— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 21, 2020
Trump, who has repeatedly proposed cuts to safety net programs & health care coverage, packs multiple lies into a single statement by saying, "We will protect Medicare & Social Security for our great seniors. And we will always protect patients w/ preexisting conditions, always." pic.twitter.com/X2cSBIJPML— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 21, 2020
Trump on recent protests across the country: "We will defend ... the right to keep and bear arms. And when you see those lunatics all over the streets, it's damn nice to have arms." pic.twitter.com/ND35MaD2RO— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 21, 2020
With the economy in ruins and a pandemic ravaging the country, Trump has dropped the "keep America great" line and is back to closing his speeches with a vow to "make America great again."— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 21, 2020
His speech in Tulsa is in the books. pic.twitter.com/6e42bgGYri
THE PHOTO CROPPING IS STRONGER THAN EVER BEFORE! #MORON https://t.co/WbmEidMFra— Spiro Agnew’s Ghost (@SpiroAgnewGhost) June 21, 2020
Before the rally and after the rally pic.twitter.com/GkN45452aR— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) June 21, 2020
WOMEN SCARE TRUMP!
— MeidasTouch.com (@MeidasTouch) June 20, 2020
This man is very misogynistic and views women as objects. He belittles women, but for what reason? Maybe he’s scared of the powers women withhold. #WomenScareTrump pic.twitter.com/IQFxD6jTTM— $ $ $ (@cashwayx) June 20, 2020
OTHER LIES!
Trump told the Wall Street Journal that he couldn’t have entered St. John’s Church because “they had a lot of insurance reasons.”— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 20, 2020
Episcopal bishop tells me: “There were no insurance reasons.”https://t.co/imYgwCWnIV
He needs the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs to act as his bodyguards?— digby (@digby56) June 20, 2020
Why not have the full cabinet form a phalanx surrounding him, with Bill Barr leading the charge through Lafayette Park holding the BIble aloft and screaming "Freedom!" https://t.co/rrkMgPMeCs
This Column was hilarious, disturbing, entertaining, sad, frightening & laughable all at once !!!
ReplyDeleteIn the end you are just thankful that you are a long way from Oklahoma ......