The American president had announced a huge crowd for his first meeting since the start of the coronavirus epidemic. "Over a million people asked for a ticket to the Tulsa, Oklahoma meeting on Saturday evening!" », Had enthusiastic Donald Trump on Twitter four days earlier.
But the event which was to relaunch its campaign finally brought together only a few thousand people and left many vacant seats in the hall planned to accommodate 19,000 participants.
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On TikTok, Internet users were delighted to see the half-empty room, according to them a sabotage operation launched on the social network a few days earlier. Hundreds of teens have booked tickets by the dozen in never intending to go there.
According to Forbes , if the real impact of their movement is difficult to assess, only 6,000 people went there on Saturday, a figure much lower than that expected by the White House.