Protesters gathered on the streets in Tulsa, Oklahoma, ahead of President Trump’s campaign rally. Pres. Trump held his first campaign rally in months, despite widespread warnings from health experts.
Health experts around the country, including in Oklahoma, have raised concerns about the president packing thousands of supporters, who have to agree not to sue the campaign or the president if they get sick, inside for a rally as COVID-19 cases rise in the state.
"We built the greatest single economy in the world, and then we -- and they never challenge me, so I guess they are right," he said."We have the best numbers anybody has ever had. We have the best employment numbers. We have the best employment numbers in history, the best stock market numbers in history."according to the latest economic dataTrump claimed other world leaders, including kings and educators, have praised him for his work on the economy during the pandemic.
He brought up a report where protesters decapitated a George Washington statue, wrapped it in an American flag and lit it on fire. Trump called on legislation that would jail someone for a year if they desecrate the flag. He criticized governors and local leaders for their handling of the Black Lives Matter protests that took place after George Floyd was killed. He particularly singled out Seattle, where protesters took over a police precinct and a section of the city.U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at a campaign rally at the BOK Center, June 20, 2020 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
President Donald Trump supporters cheer as they attend a campaign rally at the BOK Center, Saturday, June 20, 2020, in Tulsa, Okla. "We learned this past week, we need more conservative justices on the Supreme Court of the United States," Pence said. In a last-second change, the president's campaign staff announced he was canceling a speech to the overflow crowd outside the arena due to lower-than-expected turnout.
Boxes of hand sanitizers were available outside the BOK Center in Tulsa, Okla., as attendees entered a rally for Donald Trump's reelection campaign on June 20, 2020.Posters were also put up warning the attendees of their risks of catching the virus and by entering, they wouldn't hold the president or his campaign staff liable if they got sick.
Tulsa officials in the lead up to Saturday's massive campaign event, which is expected to draw around 100,000 people to the area, even recommended to the president that he postpone the event out of fear the gathered wouldn't be safe as data shows a spike in cases.
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