Tulsa, Okla. – Tensions were high on June 20 as President Trump held one of the largest indoor campaign events since the COVID-19 pandemic had swept the country, resulting in the death of 121,000 Americans due to restriction not being fully enforced.
The president pushed for the election campaign to take place after being accused of trying to cover up the auspicious event in Tulsa known as “Juneteenth” that had sparked up the ire of the many anti-rally protesters in light of President Trump’s campaign date sitting on top of the week where the Tulsa Race Massacre had occurred marking the infamous burning of Greenwood, also known as “Black Wallstreet” in June 1, 1921.
Juneteeth is the celebration of the date when slavery was abolished in American history, bringing much critiscism for choosing that date and time in the Oklahoma city. Protests from Black Lives Matter anti-rally protesters were in staunch opposition implying the President had wanted to put his shadow onto the expected celebratory event that had many BLM supporters and residents in opposition to the campaigning event.
The CDC also gave strong directives to restrict people from attending such potential rallies which evidently ended with 6 members of the building crew for the event testing positive for COVID-19 and a whopping increase in of 352 new cases that came about on Friday alone from crowds preparing for Trump’s arrival to the indoor venue with many no wearing masks before and during the televised campaign speech.
“I think it’s an honor for Tulsa to have a sitting president want to come and visit our community, but not during a pandemic,” Tulsa Health Department Director Brad Dart said as he told The Tulsa World Weekly on how most of the residents felt of President Trump pushing for re-election in the midst of the harrowing COVID-19 pandemic gripping the nation.
The speech was filled with many tropics that ranged from President Trump and his campaign spokesperson blaming protesters for the lower numbers in attendance to the president blaming former President Barack Obama for the U.S-Iran Deal that resulted in Iran’s frozen assets being liquidated and released back to the country. The president spoke about the West Point Ramp walk over pressing matters of mounting numbers of COVID-19 positives blanketing the issue with the statement “I have done a phenomenal job with it. I saved hundreds of thousands of lives.”
The campaign is still fresh and many worried U.S Citizens wonder if the campaigns would take precedent over the still unresolved COVID-19 pandemic as the CDC, Health Departments within states try to come up with solutions amidst the diaspora of the BLM movement, the protesters to the COVID restrictions and the virus itself ravaging the country.
