Empty seats are one of the most devastating things that can happen to him. He does it for the attention. The fear of people looking the other way, ignoring that gaudy tenants squeezer from Queens, is what he fears most. And it happened. By a long shot.
It is said that some K-Pop fans cobbled up all the tickets they could get. Of course he didn’t question that a million (think Dr Evil) people wanted to come and see him. For him it was just a surefire expression of the love of the people for their leader that so many of his righteous followers could not find a place in the BOK dome. His org was equally clueless. They planned for out door events. A day before the day people started to camp in line. Breitbart had a reporter live stream meandering up and down the white trash that conjugated with the sidewalk in the Oklahoma sun. More flags than in a home less camp, but maybe just a fews Mnuchin checks away from that final state of the American middle class.
Nobody questioned how all those K-pop fans suddenly turned into activists. How they all acted so swiftly and precisely and with intention. Egg on his face? Thats cool and enjoyable. New grass roots thing somewhere? Awesome. Something like this didn’t happen before. The fact that it worked so well should be noticed. The platform of choice of the organizers was Tiktok. Social media systems do not reveal how they guide attention. How they effectively manipulate people. Google search was the last time a social system (yes, it is that as well) was under some public scrutiny while it grew: Links are something one can discuss. And back in the 2000s there was enough tech literate public Internet left that actually had a voice. People don’t understand how they are being prodded by FB and others. Tiktok does so too. Probably a whole lot better. Its video based meme cauldron is complete opaque. And it is entirely AI based. Clearing the seats in Tulsa could have been just a test. To see what is possible. A dangerous experiment, since the results would be so publicly visible. Or maybe that was the actual experiment: how much manipulation can you yield without people noticing what happens.