Trump & RNC r scrambling to ensure July4th turnout to avoid crowd size controversy!

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So many agencies and Republicans could have put a stop to this spectacle.







'They started this too late': Trump officials and allies anxious about July 4 fest

Trump and RNC aides are scrambling to ensure turnout at the event and avoid another controversy about crowd size.

07/03/2019 01:17 PM EDT


The White House and Republican National Committee have spent the last week scrambling to distribute VIP tickets to President Donald Trump’s Fourth of July speech at the Lincoln Memorial.

Now, White House officials and allies are wringing their hands over the risk of the hastily arranged event morphing into Trump’s Inauguration 2.0, in which the size of the crowd and the ensuing media coverage do not meet the president’s own outsized expectations for the event.

“They started this too late and everyone has plans already,” said Dan Eberhart, a Republican donor and chief executive officer of the drilling services company Canary, LLC. “Everyone will be there in spirit, but in reality, people planned their July 4th activities weeks ago.”

Less than 36 hours before the event, White House aides were crafting Trump’s speech while administration and Republican National Committee officials finalized the guest lists.

A White House official declined to explain the system for handing out tickets or the various tiers of VIP access, except to say the reserved seating area – extending from the steps of the memorial to the middle the reflecting pool — will feature veterans, Trump family and friends and special guests. The First Lady, vice president and second lady, and a number of Cabinet officials are expected to attend as well as several senior White House officials — though the aide stressed this, too, was still coming together.

“They are creating this thing from scratch, and I do not know if anyone knows how it will go off,” said another White House aide. “There are questions about the ticket distribution and who will show up. The weather might be bad. Heads are spinning.”.................................







Two Bradley Fighting Vehicles are parked nearby the Lincoln Memorial for President Donald Trump's "Salute to America" event. An informal survey of more than a half dozen Trump donors and allies showed that none plan to attend. | Andrew Harnik/AP Photo

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[Zambero]

1. VIP Vacation In Progress

Having fun somewhere, just not on the Mall listening to the Dotard!

[Leghorn21]

2. This is the same pack of LOSERS who couldn't find the light switches in the WH, Jan. 2017

so, yeah, of course it’s a fubar

LOSERS

[3catwoman3]

3. Is this, mayhap, why Pence had...

...to come back?

[Atticus]

4. Me! Me! I'll go! (But, they won't like my tee-shirt or my attitude!) nt

[TlalocW]

5. I guess the tanks aren't actually going to be in the parade but are just stationary?

Does Trump think that's cool? I've lived in several different places that had some sort of veterans or military building with a non-working tank next to the flag pole. Once you're past the age of 11, it's not that exciting.

I'm sure he's pissed off that he's not able to get the tanks to be in the parade, no large missile on the back of a truck-trailer rig, etc. What will his BFFs Kim and Putin think?

TlalocW

[Vinca]

6. It's going to be hot, rainy and generally shitty. He'll be lucky if the cult shows up.

[smirkymonkey]

7. I predict a major fiasco that will cause him serious embarrassment.

But he will spin it like it was the greatest success ever. In other words, the usual.

[smb]

9. Napoleon Boneyspurs Is Incapable Of Feeling Embarrassment nt

[smb]

8. Whaddya Mean, I Can't Get A Ticket?

I've got my kazoo and my vuvuzela and my USS John McCain T-Shirt and my Baby Trump balloon and everything!

[fishwax]

10. started too late? he's been talkimg about this sinec about day one