Tik Tok "Tulsa"'ed Trump's parade. Again. Inflated ticket requests
TikTokers Are Claiming Credit For Trump’s Parade Attendance
Across social media, people claimed to have reserved tickets en masse to Trump’s birthday parade with no intent of showing up. Last time this happened, Trump tried to ban America’s most popular app.
“I got 10 tickets here in Australia. Whoops, my bad, won’t be there,” wrote one. Said another, “We Europeans couldn’t use our tickets here. Solidarity from Scotland!”
In 2020, at the height of Trump’s first (and failed) reelection campaign, he kicked off a rally tour with a large event planned for Juneteenth in Tulsa. Users across social media — including, notably, kpop stans, who command a large and organized following online — implored their followers to get involved, reserving tickets to the rally with the intent of leaving the stadium open and the president high and dry. When the president did, in fact, speak to a half-empty stadium in his comeback rally, online teens claimed credit for the paltry crowd (although COVID surges in a pre-vaccine era might have done as much or more to explain it).
https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2025/06/14/tiktokers-are-claiming-credit-for-trumps-parade-attendance/