Instead, the President was left “incandescent” after he walked into Tulsa’s BOK Centre only to be greeted by a half-empty arena.
With his poll numbers in decline, a teenager-led campaign flooded Trump’s re-election team with fake ticket reservations, duping him into believing a million people wanted to see him.
It later emerged TikTok users and K-pop fans, known as Generation Z or Zoomers, had reserved thousands of tickets with no intention of attending.
Political strategist Steve Schmidt, a Trump critic, tweeted: “My 16-year-old daughter and her friends in Park City Utah have hundreds of tickets.
“You have been rolled by America’s teens. Donald Trump, you have been failed by your team. You have been deserted by your faithful.
Savage
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