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Temple Regular Member
Posts : 7317 Join date : 2014-07-29
| Subject: Trump Rally Empty Seats Closed Arena's 'Top Bowl' Sat Dec 11, 2021 5:18 pm | |
| 12-11-2021
Trump rally features 'many empty seats' — prompting closure of arena's 'top bowl'
Donald Trump's event with former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly on Saturday had so many empty seats that organizers closed the top bowl of the stadium.
"Thousands of people donned their red baseball caps or favorite Donald Trump T-shirts in the FLA Live Arena in Sunrise Saturday afternoon to see the former president and conservative darling Bill O’Reilly," the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports.
The crowd chanted, 'Let’s go, Brandon' while waiting for the two to appear. ... Many seats remained empty in the cavernous arena. The top level was closed and ticket buyers were 'upgraded' to the lower bowl."
Saturday's event was the first of four that are part of Trump's "History Tour" with O'Reilly. The tour continues Sunday in Orlando, where ticket sales have also reportedly been slow, before moving on to Houston and Dallas next weekend.
Tickets for the "History Tour" reportedly started at $100 for upper deck seats and ran into the thousands of dollars for VIP packages. The VIP packages included “floor seats, a 45-minute reception before the show, and photos with Trump and O’Reilly.
According to the Sun-Sentinel, Saturday's event featured Trump "deriding the current president, claiming the election was stolen, and portraying the country under Joe Biden as a crime-ridden, inflation-plagued mockery overrun by foreign criminals."
"Trump had few comments that veered from what he has often said publicly," the newspaper reports. "But he made the occasional unrehearsed comment. When the microphone failed and O’Reilly went silent, Trump said he thought something had happened to him."
“I thought he went down, which frankly would have been very exciting," Trump said.
The newspaper also notes that "members of the Proud Boys white nationalists — a group that has resorted to political violence to achieve its ends — were present."
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| | | The Wise And Powerful Admin
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| Subject: Re: Trump Rally Empty Seats Closed Arena's 'Top Bowl' Sat Dec 11, 2021 10:24 pm | |
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- "Thousands of people donned their red baseball caps or favorite Donald Trump T-shirts in the FLA Live Arena in Sunrise Saturday afternoon to see the former president and conservative darling Bill O’Reilly," the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports.
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| | | Temple Regular Member
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| Subject: Re: Trump Rally Empty Seats Closed Arena's 'Top Bowl' Sun Dec 12, 2021 12:06 am | |
| - The Wise And Powerful wrote:
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- "Thousands of people donned their red baseball caps or favorite Donald Trump T-shirts in the FLA Live Arena in Sunrise Saturday afternoon to see the former president and conservative darling Bill O’Reilly," the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports.
Donating did not fill all seats, as planed. It was to be a blow-out full house. Trump rally features 'many empty seats' — prompting closure of arena's 'top bowl'
Donald Trump's event with former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly on Saturday had so many empty seats that organizers closed the top bowl of the stadium.
Many seats remained empty in the cavernous arena. The top level was closed and ticket buyers were 'upgraded' to the lower bowl."
((((Trump failed to fill it up, greatly-)))
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| | | The Wise And Powerful Admin
Posts : 111040 Join date : 2014-07-29 Age : 101 Location : A Mile High
| Subject: Re: Trump Rally Empty Seats Closed Arena's 'Top Bowl' Sun Dec 12, 2021 1:33 am | |
| You couldn't fill up a bathtub all the way to the top, Temple. |
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| Subject: Re: Trump Rally Empty Seats Closed Arena's 'Top Bowl' Sun Dec 12, 2021 4:08 pm | |
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| | | Grackle
Posts : 2495 Join date : 2017-09-09
| Subject: Re: Trump Rally Empty Seats Closed Arena's 'Top Bowl' Sun Dec 12, 2021 9:18 pm | |
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| Subject: Re: Trump Rally Empty Seats Closed Arena's 'Top Bowl' Thu Dec 16, 2021 3:32 pm | |
| 12-16-2021
Trump-O’Reilly event was less than half full despite predictions of a sellout.
Videos circulating online Sunday suggested that Donald Trump's event with Bill O'Reilly in Orlando came up well short of the sellout crowd that organizers predicted.
Now, there are hard numbers to confirm it.
The Orlando Sentinel reported; Thursday that former president Trump and former Fox News host O'Reilly's event at the Amway Center sold 5,406 tickets, according to city records.
"The listed capacity for the event of 8,700 didn’t include vast swaths of the upper bowl covered with a tarp before the event started... despite tickets for those seats being listed as available all the way until Sunday morning," the newspaper reported.
The Amway Center's normal capacity for "an end-stage concert" — which is the setup that Trump and O'Reilly used — is between 12,500 and 17,000, the Sentinel reported. And hundreds of seats were listed as available in the upper bowl on the morning of the event.
"But when doors opened at noon, people who bought tickets to an upper bowl seat, including an Orlando Sentinel reporter, were told they had been upgraded to empty seats in the lower bowl," according to the newspaper.
The tour began Saturday in Sunrise, Florida — where the "top bowl" of the FLA Live Arena was also reportedly closed due to an abundance of empty seats.
When Politico reported in July that ticket sales for the "History Tour" weren't going well, O'Reilly threatened to sue the site's reporter.
Trump spokeswoman Liz Harrington told Politico, “Come December, the sold-out shows will be a memorable night for all.”
Aubrey Jewett, a political science at the University of Central Florida, said of Sunday's attendance: “I guess it does show that there’s a limit to his popularity. He’s still influential and still popular within the Republican Party. But a lot of his fans apparently were not willing to pay 100 bucks a crack to hear him talk for two hours.”
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| | | Grackle
Posts : 2495 Join date : 2017-09-09
| Subject: Re: Trump Rally Empty Seats Closed Arena's 'Top Bowl' Thu Dec 16, 2021 7:14 pm | |
| Let's say we believe that the whole upper deck was empty.. That could possibly save you from pasting multiple articles that say essentially the same shit |
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