ABC Mocks Trump’s Tulsa Rally for ‘Noticeably Empty Seats’

Nicholas Fondacaro | June 21, 2020
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After the liberal media spent weeks decrying President Trump’s Saturday campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma as a possible “super spreader” of coronavirus and some kind of racist get together, since it was originally scheduled for Juneteenth, ABC’s Good Morning America kicked off Sunday’s newscast by mocking how there were “noticeably empty seats in the arena that he [President Trump] promised would be packed,” as co-anchor Dan Harris did.

While NBC’s Sunday Today host Willie Geist did poke fun at the “smaller than advertised” crowd, ABC acted more as an opposition press that was gleefully pouncing on an embarrassing moment.

“It was President Trump's first time back in front of his supporters in more than 100 days. He promised there would not be a single empty seat in the arena behind me. His campaign bragged that they received more than a million ticket requests. But campaign sources tell us they oversold it,” ABC correspondent Rachel Scott told Harris.

As the video portion of her report began, Scott joked that Trump’s rebooted campaign was “getting off to a bumpy start.”

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