Trump Threatens Protesters Who Plan To Show Up At His Tulsa Rally

President Donald Trump holds at the White House on June 5, 2020. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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President Donald Trump issued a vague threat on Friday to those who plan to protest at his campaign rally Saturday in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

“Any protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters or lowlifes who are going to Oklahoma please understand, you will not be treated like you have been in New York, Seattle, or Minneapolis,” Trump tweeted. “It will be a much different scene!”

Trump’s threat is a stunning escalation of his hostility toward demonstrators who have been protesting against him and police brutality for the past several weeks. The President’s infamous “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” tweet, which Twitter stamped with a warning label for “glorifying violence,” did not specifically mention protesters.

The upcoming rally has raised safety concerns with regards to not only COVID-19, but also potentially violent clashes between anti-Trump protesters, pro-Trump counter-protesters and the police.

Two-hundred-fifty Oklahoma Army National Guard soldiers with pepper spray and batons will be deployed at the rally.

Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum has set a 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew for the area surrounding the rally arena until Sunday.

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  1. Has anyone notified the Red Cross yet to start mobilizing?

    I’m sure the Pentagon has.

  2. When he’s heading RightWing and that’s all he has, what else would Trump say?

  3. I’m sorry. I only listen to Presidents who uphold the Constitution.

    (guess who didn’t learn the lesson of the Battle of Lafayette Park yet)

    See you at 25% approval, Donnie.

  4. Avatar for pshah pshah says:

    “Any protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters or lowlifes who are going to Oklahoma please understand, you will not be treated like you have been in New York, Seattle, or Minneapolis,” Trump tweeted. “It will be a much different scene!”

    So he just disinvited Don, Eric, and Jared publicly? That’s not nice, though he is accurate, I’ll give him that.

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