Trump is on a half-full tour

Despite the fact that ticket sales began several months ago, there are still thousands of tickets available for Donald Trump’s “History Tour”.

Ahead of the weekend, President Donald J. Trump spoke of “Big Crowds!” In a press release. Talkshow hosts Bill O’Reilly chirp About “Big Crowds”. The two are currently touring together. It started this weekend and was called the History Tour.

O’Reilly is best known from the talk show “The O’Reilly Factor” on conservative television channel Fox News, which ran between 1996 and 2017. The show was then discontinued after the presenter was accused of sexual harassment.

In December, he will on four occasions interview Trump about his four years in the White House. “About all that he has achieved, but also about the challenges, through thick and thin.” This is how the event is described on the ticket pages.

NEWSWEEK Last week I reported thousands of tickets available for all meetings. Not everything was sold last week. According to local media, there were several empty seats during the first part of the tour.

Available seats and unused sections

The first public meeting was held in Sunrise, Florida. Here, the top of the arena has been sealed off, and those with tickets to that area have been “promoted” to the bottom of the FLA Live Arena, according to sun guard.

The paper’s journalist Brittany Woolman thinks it’s “half full or less” during the sunrise meeting and tweeted the following from the square:

Things didn’t go any better the next day in Orlando, Florida either. Also in Amway Center Orlando there were several vacant seats. Based on the setup most commonly used for this type of event, both arenas report a capacity of over 15,000.

Although the yards are not completely sold out, Trump and O’Reilly are making good money. according to independent More than 1,000 tickets for the two Florida meetings were sold. The cheapest tickets cost around 900 NOK, while the most expensive VIP tickets are said to cost tens of thousands of NOK.

The cheapest tickets were supposed to be available for 360 kroner in the hours leading up to the meeting in Orlando, according to reports Hill site.

The next two meetings will be held in Texas. according to NEWSWEEK There will be hundreds of tickets available for the December 18 meeting in Houston. It should be the same for the last meeting in Dallas the next day.

I already wrote this summer came the first reports of slowing ticket sales Politico. The former president didn’t do much to promote the tour. Not even on his site Save Americawebsite, the tour has been heavily promoted.

– One of the most profitable rounds of all time

But Trump’s spokeswoman, Liz Harrington, dismissed reports of tepid ticket sales.

– The History Tour has sold more than 50 million kroner tickets, and the enthusiasm and commitment it created is something we’ve never seen before. And when December comes, she said, the meetings that have run out of energy will provide an unforgettable evening for everyone Politico in July.

Later that month, O’Reilly claimed that the tour had already generated more than $60 million in ticket sales, thanks to good selling of expensive VIP tickets.

“This is going to be one of the most lucrative tours ever,” said the talk show host.

The first two meetings are still half yards full.

2024 Election Tip

Trump supporters who bought tickets to this weekend’s meetings greeted a former president in a good mood. He fueled the public’s enthusiasm by repeatedly claiming that the 2020 presidential election had been stolen from him.

Not surprisingly, he also hinted that he might run for president again in 2024.

– We won the first time, and the second time we won more clearly. Looks like we have to think a third time,” Trump said from the stage. He is also credited with US vaccines for the covid-19 virus, sending it around the world and “saving millions of lives”.

But not everything the president said fell into equally good ground. Among other things, he described Barack Obama as “intelligent and sharp.” The audience bowed as Trump responded that he “would not destroy a family” when O’Reilly asked if he would work towards an investigation of President Biden’s son Hunter.

Better harmony with “tyrants”

In a conversation with O’Reilly, the former president also said that during his presidency he got along better with “tyrants” such as Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un.

– They were the best I’ve worked with. For some reason, I was on good terms with Putin, the glorified Chinese President Xi, and Kim Jong Un in North Korea. Isn’t that good, Trump asked from the stage, isn’t it better than a nuclear war.

Trump also spoke about the riots in the Capitol on January 6, when many of his supporters stormed Congress to stop certifying Biden’s election victory. “There was love in the air,” Trump said of the incident.