Trump Campaign Denies K-Pop Fans, TikTok Users Caused Sparsely Attended Tulsa Rally

The Trump campaign denied a report that K-pop fans and TikTok users were to blame for the president’s sparsely attended rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Despite Trump’s claims that over 1 million people had requested tickets for his June 20th rally amid a pandemic, the president’s speech at the BOK Arena was attended by well-below the venue’s 19,000-person capacity.

As the New York Times reported, the low attendance came amidst a viral campaign allegedly orchestrated by TikTok users and K-pop fans to flood the Trump campaign with ticket requests for the Tulsa rally and then no-show the event, resulting in a significantly under-filled arena. However, on Sunday, Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale denied those reports.

“Leftists and online trolls doing a victory lap, thinking they somehow impacted rally attendance, don’t know what they’re talking about or how our rallies work,” Parscale said in a statement. “Reporters who wrote gleefully about TikTok and K-Pop fans – without contacting the campaign for comment – behaved unprofessionally and were willing dupes to the charade.”

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