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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Ellie Harrison

Pink mocks Trump over thousands of empty seats at Tulsa rally: 'Donkey show'

Pink has mocked Donald Trump after his Tulsa rally failed to draw in anything close to the one million people the president had claimed would attend.

The event took place in the 19,000-capacity BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where there were thousands of empty seats.

“I think I sold that same place out in five minutes. #donkeyshow,” tweeted Pink, who has played at the venue in the past.

The rally was held against the advice of Trump’s own coronavirus task force, which had urged White House officials to cancel it amid fears it could spread coronavirus.

Attendees had to sign a waiver protecting the Trump campaign from responsibility for any illness. Six staff members involved in organising the rally tested positive for coronavirus.

“Don’t hurt the people that love you,” tweeted Pink. “I would never ask people to come to an arena right now. No good person would.”

The crowd was so underwhelming in size that a planned speech to the “overflow” crowd outside the centre was abandoned, because the overflow didn’t exist.

At the rally, Trump told supporters he had asked for the rate of coronavirus testing to be slowed down because there were so many positive cases being found in the United States.

He also called the virus “Kung Flu” in a xenophobic reference to its origins in China.

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