Ticket sales for T---p's speaking tour with Bill O'Reilly are falling below expectations

[zuul]

Link to tweet

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/16/trump-oreilly-tickets-499795

Donald T---p is having trouble selling advance tickets for his upcoming speaking tour with conservative pundit Bill O’Reilly, according to interviews with ticketing officials for the venues.

Early last month, T---p and O’Reilly, the one-time top Fox News host, announced a joint “History Tour” featuring four stops in December. O’Reilly said his conversations with T---p “will not be boring,” while the former president promised “fun, fun, fun for everyone who attends.”

Tickets went on sale for the events on June 14. While most seats are priced between $100 and $300, a “VIP Meet & Greet Package” goes for more than $8,500 and includes getting pictures taken with T---p and O’Reilly and a pre-show, 45-minute reception. The events are not until the end of the year, T---p’s camp notes. But so far, the pace of purchases has been slow compared to other acts, arena officials say.

In Orlando, where the duo is hosting an event at the 20,000-capacity Amway Center on Dec. 12, a box office employee for the arena said, “There’s still a lot of tickets open.” The person, who like others for this story insisted on anonymity to share confidential sales data, added: “We have concerts that are doing a lot better than this.” A Bad Bunny concert being held next March recently sold out within two days, for example, and the majority of seats for a Dec. 3 Kane Brown concert have been sold already.

[hatrack]

1. At the Amway Center - how appropriate!

And the idea of paying - PAYING - $300 to listen to that bullshit. Beyond comprehension.

[Champp]

2. Republicans are begging their Russian buddies to buy the tickets

Many people might well be saying...

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

11. That ticket is flat-out hilarious!

Thank you for the laugh!

[sinkingfeeling]

3. "...compared to other acts" is the correct statement. It's just

entertainment for the masses.

[lagomorph777]

9. ...and those other acts are complete no-names.

[Demovictory9]

4. who wants to pay to hear Trump air his grievances?

[NCDem47]

6. We here at DU could WRITE the script!

For a man heralded as a marketing/PR "genius," TFG is loosing grasp of providing new material. Old. Tired. Predictable.

[Demovictory9]

7. yep. "I won! the biggest victory in history. The media won't tell you!!!"

[Blue Owl]

16. He can huff his own farts

[NanceGreggs]

5. They should have scheduled the tour ...

... for late August/early September.

I understand that "Puppet Show + Trump/O'Reilly Rally" type events are popular with the end-of-summer festival crowd.

[lagomorph777]

8. And they are even throwing in free COVID infections.

Sheesh, what's it take to fleece a MAGAT these days?

[mikeysnot]

10. The Serial Sexual Harasser tour

Coming to a shit hole near you!

[samsingh]

12. Who wants to hear two losers speaking and lying?

[Initech]

13. He really thinks he could still fill stadiums?

He couldn't even fill the Four Seasons Total Landscaping parking lot!

[struggle4progress]

14. "Come hear two noisy blowhards babble!"

[JHB]

15. Depends on whose expectations. n/t