TikTok users troll the Trump campaign on the Tulsa rally

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Most of those who want tickets may troll the President in a stunt, mostly organized through the social media platform TikTok.
Last week, Trump tweeted “Almost One Million people asked for tickets for Saturday Night Rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma!” and a local official said they expected 100,000 to appear near the arena. But on Saturday, registered participants did not fill Tulsa’s Oklahoma Central Bank arena, which confessed the rally players on the first come first serve basis, and the Trump team left their plans to speak outside the “overflow” area for the President arena.

On the days leading up to the Trik Saturday Saturday rally, a coordinated effort was made on TikTok and encouraged people to sign up and not appear online for the free event. TikTok is normally considered as a platform for young people to dance, not necessarily political action.

A Trump campaign official, in a statement to CNN, pushed back the suggestion that these articles played a role in participation. “We had 300,000 Republican legitimate records that voted in the last four elections. These are [TikTok] children. I was afraid of violent protests. It is open with the lack of families and children at this rally. We normally have thousands of families. “

While TikTok’s efforts may seem overwhelmingly of interest to young people and other young people, a 51-year-old grandmother, Mary Jo Laupp, who lives in Fort Dodge in Iowa, seems to have played a central role in encouraging people to go to Trump’s website, sign up. attending the event – and not attending.

“All of us who want to see this 19,000 seat auditorium barely full or completely empty, buy their reserve tickets now and leave it alone on the stage,” Laupp said. told He has about 1000 followers on TikTok.

And then, besides choreographed dances, comedy courage and schoolyard jokes, her grandmother’s request was a challenge in her own right. Inspirational users have begun to broadcast videos showing that they are also registering for the event. Similar posts on Instagram and Twitter speeded up thousands of likes.

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A video with over four million views called South Korean pop music fans in particular to join the troll campaign. Fans of music known as K-pop are a force on social media – they just posted over 6 billion tweets last year. And they have a history of action for social justice cases.

Earlier this month, K-pop fans gathered around the Black Lives Matter movement, strangling “Lives Matter” and other anti-Black hashtags.

Laupp said that Mayor Pete Buttigieg was working in former South Bend, Indiana during his campaign in Iowa last autumn, and told CNN that he made the first appeal when the rally celebrated the end of slavery in June 19th. In the United States.

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The Trump campaign rejected this effort last week. Erin Perrine, deputy communications manager for the Trump campaign, told CNN on Tuesday, “The leftists do this all the time. They think they are registering for tickets that will leave empty seats. This is not the case. Always asking for more tickets. It gives us access to all their contact information.”

Saturday night, as the images show empty sections of the BOK Center, LAUPPE and the young people at TikTok celebrated. “Gen Z is unstoppable,” said a teenager. TikTok wrote on.
Democratic Republic of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted “You tricked the TumpTok flooding the Trump campaign with fake ticket bookings and making you believe that a million people will pack enough to pack an arena during COVID,” says Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale.
Steve Schmidt, a Republican strategist who manages John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign, tweeted“Teenagers in America hit a brutal blow against @realDonaldTrump. Teenagers all over America ordered tickets for this event. The fools in the campaign boasted about a million tickets. Lol.”

Owned by a Chinese company, TikTok previously attracted the attention of US lawmakers.

Last year, Sens. Chuck Schumer and Tom Cotton urged the US intelligence community to assess the national security risks of TikTok and other China-owned platforms.

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