The city's paper and public health director have urged the president to postpone his rally scheduled for June 20.
The leading newspaper in Eastern Oklahoma and the health director of Tulsa urged President Trump to not hold a scheduled campaign kickoff Saturday in a 19,000-seat arena in that city of 400,000 — his first in-person rally since the pandemic shutdown began in March.
The Tulsa City-County Health Department director, Dr. Bruce Dart, expressed a similar sentiment in an interview with the World on Saturday, although he used more measured words. Tulsa County marked record high numbers of coronavirus infections on Friday and then again on Saturday. Dart said he didn’t believe the figures reflected an increase in testing. According to tracking information from the New York Times, Oklahoma is currently one of 22 states where cases are rising. More than 115,000 Americans have died from the virus, the most of any nation, and cases in the U.S. are rising while they fall in other major countries.
The Trump campaign has been promoting the rally, with campaign manager Brad Parscale claiming over the weekend that 800,000 RSVPs had been received. On Monday morning, Trump said “almost one million” had requested tickets. Those attending the rally have been asked to sign a liability waiver acknowledging the “inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19.”
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