President Trump returned triumphant — and angry — to the rally stage on Saturday night, telling a smaller-than-expected audience in in Tulsa, Okla., that they’re putting a basement-cowering, anarchist-coddling Joe Biden to shame.
“Joe Biden is silent in his basement in the face of this assault on the values of this nation,” the president crowed of his presumptive Democratic opponent, to cheers.
Trump earlier Saturday had mocked the former vice president‘s rally from Wednesday, attended by some 20 supporters.
“You are warriors,” he told the Tulsa attendees, who braved COVID-19 fears and a circling crowd of protesters to not-quite-fill the 19,000-seat BOK Center.
Trump — who had to cancel a planned speech to the “overflow” crowd when no overflow materialized — blamed the huge swaths of empty seats on the media for declaring, “don’t go, don’t come, don’t do anything.”
“We begin our campaign,” he said as he addressed his first rally in some three months.
“I stand before you today to declare the silent majority is stronger than ever before.”
