The gathering, scheduled for Saturday, comes amid a recent increase in Covid-19 cases. FMTNews
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Monday rejected pleas from Tulsa, Oklahoma, not to aggravate coronavirus risks by holding a rally there, announcing he wants to triple the crowd to 60,000 people.
The arena that the Trump campaign has booked holds about 20,000 people, who would be packed closely together. He hadn’t previously mentioned plans to pack a second, bigger venue. The former real estate tycoon frequently exaggerates numbers, regularly claiming that as many as tens of thousands of people are outside the arenas, unable to get in, when that is not true.
He often turns the events into extended performances where he tells jokes, crudely insults opponents and veers repeatedly off script with crowd-pleasing stories – scenes unlike any other in top-level US politics. Adding to the sense that the campaign was being insensitive in its choice of city and timing, Tulsa is the site of a notorious massacre of black Oklahomans by white mobs in 1921.
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