• Oklahoma: Trump obviates coronavirus pandemic with controversial Tulsa rally

Donald Trump has returned to the United States stage after 110 days of absence with an unexpected puncture. But it has not even remotely filled the 19,119 seats at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the place chosen for his return to the electoral arena.

The surprisingly low audience has been particularly striking because Trump tends to fill the premises where he gives his rallies to the flag. In fact, the one in Tulsa was going to be so massive that his campaign had foreseen that another 40,000 people would stay out of the BOK, for which he had prepared a special area in which the president was going to give another speech. But in that outer zone there was nobody. Trump had to settle for speaking only once.

The low audience is striking because Trump has a formidable capacity to attract an audience. And even more so in Oklahoma, a state that won by more than 30 percentage points in 2016. If this assumes that the president has popularity problems, as polls suggest, or is due to other factors - perhaps the fear of contagion from the coronavirus, despite the fact that nobody in the BOK wore a mask - it remains for the subsequent analysis.

But, if the Tulsa event was a public failure, it was not a critical one. Trump did not disappoint his faithful. In fact, he was more populist - more Trump - than usual. It was more theatrical than is normal for him, staging even conversations in what sometimes seemed more like a 'Comedy Club' style performance than a political act.

It was coarser, declaring how he called then- Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenberg "damned son of a bitch" to lower the price of the presidential plane (which Boeing did not drop), and stating that if he walked slowly on Saturday Spent at an event at the West Point Military Academy was not, as his critics pointed out, because I am losing faculties, but "because I thought:" There is no way I can go down this ramp without falling on my ass. "

Finally, he was more conceited than usual in talking about his "shoes with leather soles", his "silk ties", and informing those present that "I have bigger houses, better properties, and better hair "than its critics and, in particular, the media. Trump also gave a tip to the audience that sounds like something out of a Martin Scorsese movie: "Make sure you don't put anything in writing!"

The President of the United States has promised a law that will punish anyone who defiles an American flag with a year in prison, a complicated issue because in 1991 the country's Supreme Court declared it illegal to punish those actions. He also criticized "far-left violence," manifested in the wave of attacks on statues in the United States in the past 10 days. And, unsurprisingly, he insisted that his rival in the November election, Joe Biden, has his mental faculties diminished. It was a speech very much in the Trump norm. He himself called it "normal". The big issue was the relatively small audience that attended. The president began his speech by speaking of "the silent majority" whom he claims to represent. In Tulsa, more than silent, most were invisible.

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