RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel Dismisses Trump Rally Social Distancing Concerns: ‘They’ll Be Full’

Hours before President Donald Trump took the stage last Saturday at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for his first rally in the COVID-19 era, arena workers were busy labeling thousands of seats with “Do Not Sit Here Please!” stickers to promote social distancing, part of a new safety protocol at the arena known as VenueShield. Campaign

A musical retelling of Sleepless In Seattle starring Jay McGuiness and Kimberley Walsh will open in the UK in September with a socially distanced audience wearing masks, it has been announced.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorKevin Mayer offered his first public comments Thursday about his stunning exit from Disney and his outlook for TikTok’s path to further growth. He took over June 1 as the fast-rising company’s CEO and COO of its parent, ByteDance.“There comes a time in everyone’s career where you need to make a choice,” he said.

Ted Johnson A New York judge has dismissed a legal motion brought by Donald Trump’s brother Robert to try to stop the release of an upcoming tell-all memoir from Mary Trump, the president’s niece.The judge in Queens County Surrogate’s Court, Peter Kelly, ruled that the case was filed in the wrong jurisdiction.

Donald Trump's supporters who stayed away from Saturday's campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, were instead: they were home watching it on television. Fox News Channel, which aired Trump's speech live, had the biggest Saturday night audience in the network's 24-year history, the Nielsen company said.

Also Read: CNN to Capitalize Both 'Black' and 'White' in Reference to RaceThe appetite for news was strong overall this week: All three major cable news networks held the top spots in the top five basic cable channels from June 15 to 21, both in total day and primetime.Fox News was in first place with an average of 3,798,000 average primetime viewers for the week and 1,766,000 average total-day viewers.

What was touted as a massive campaign rally for Donald Trump with a million ticket requests for the event turned out to be a bit of a bust. Instead, the president's gathering at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Okla., on Saturday (June 20) was attended by a little more than 6,200 people in a 19,200-seat stadium, according toForbes.

approximately 6,200 supporters actually showed up, less than a third of the maximum capacity of the 19,200-seat BOK Center where the event had been held. An outdoor stage had been set up for Trump and Vice President Mike Pence to speak to overflow crowds, but those speeches were canceled.Wallace brought campaign spokesperson Mercedes Schlapp on the show to ask what had happened.

Jordan Moreau K-Pop fans and TikTok users may have been behind all the empty seats at President Trump’s rally on Saturday.The chairman of Trump’s re-election campaign, Brad Parscale, tweeted that the Tulsa, Okla., rally had more than a million ticket requests, but The New York Times and many reporters noted that attendance was significantly lower.The Times reports that a plan to register for free tickets but not show up to the rally was organized by users on the app TikTok and social media

Forbes.All the empty sets in the upper level, the cancellation of president and vice president's outdoor speeches to "overflow" attendees, and general low turnout may be in part thanks to fans of K-pop and TikTok users, according to multiple reports.Per The New York Times, after the Trump campaign announced on TikTok that supporters can get free tickets to the rally by registering via their phones, K-pop fans shared the information and urged others to sign up and be no-shows.In a TikTok video

Donald Trump rally in Oklahoma this weekend.Trump held a gathering in Tulsa yesterday (June 20), reporting before the event that a million people had registered for tickets.The event was poorly attended, though, and as the New York Times report, the discrepancy of ticket requests to attendees likely came from an undercover campaign by K-Pop fans to sabotage the event.kpop stans really ruined trumps rally… i LOVE this song pic.twitter.com/sZXYUO5EtM— lily⁷ (@lilynotlilly) June 21, 2020The report

Ted Johnson As President Donald Trump was about to take the stage at his much publicized rally in an indoor arena in Tulsa, OK, the pre-media focus turned to empty seats and the cancellation plans for an outdoor speech for an overflow crowd.“Smaller than expected crowd trickles into Tulsa rally,” CNN’s chyron read on Saturday evening, as anchor Wolf Blitzer focused on the empty seats in the upper deck of the BOK Center, which holds almost 20,000 people.The crowd was still large for a campaign

Mötley Crüe along with their fellow heavy metal cronies, Def Leppard, Poison and Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, are back after a weekslong postponement of their summer Stadium Tour due to the coronavirus pandemic -- and the makeup dates have been announced for 2021.

Ted Johnson A major topic at the White House press briefing on Wednesday was President Donald Trump’s plans to hold an indoor rally in Tulsa on Saturday amid concerns of further spread of the coronavirus.CNN’s chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta asked Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany whether the president will take responsibility if people get sick.McEnany said that the campaign will be taking precautions such as temperature checks, hand sanitizers and masks.But Acosta continued to press

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaMagnolia Pictures will premiere “John Lewis: Good Trouble,” a new documentary about the Civil Rights icon and congressional leader, in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Juneteenth.

Evil Dead film is on the way, with Lee Cronin taking over as director — as chosen by Sam Raimi himself.A new Evil Dead movie was confirmed last year, and the franchise’s longtime lead and now-producer Bruce Campbell has shared further details on the shape of the upcoming release.“We’re just getting off the phone with Lee Cronin, who is writing and directing the next Evil Dead,” Campbell told Empire on the future of the franchise.“It’s called Evil Dead Now.

The White House abandoned social distancing for reporters attending President Donald Trump’s Rose Garden event Friday because “it looks better,” according to the aide who ordered it.

Even as some states lift their stay-at-home orders over the coronavirus crisis, people across the country and around the globe are keeping themselves and others safe by confining indoors when possible.