Donald Trump arrived in India on Monday, starting 36 hours of tightly choreographed pomp and circumstance…Indian style.

Trump and first lady Melania Trump landed in Ahmedabad, in western India, and after being greeted warmly by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the two leaders traveled to the world’s largest cricket stadium for a huge rally.

The cricket stadium held 100,000 people, making it the largest rally of Trump’s political career. “The boisterous scene featured soldiers on camels, a mix of songs from Bollywood hits and Trump’s campaign rally playlist, including an Elton John hit that seemed to puzzle most of the crowd,” The Associated Press reports. Trump spoke for nearly half an hour, and “toward the end of the speeches, there were many empty seats, especially in the upper part of the stadium, in the sections facing the sun,” noted AFP’s Jerome Cartillier, the White House pool reporter.

mister president sir now show everyone the video where crowds are rushing out of the stadium IN DROVES as you drone on and on, I love that one pic.twitter.com/4A3I1pgLCt

— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) February 24, 2020

Some in India suggested that people were paid to attend the rally:

It's a standard practice in India to arrange hourly paid (unemployed) crowd for such (especially political) gatherings. They must have been leaving because the hours might have exceeded the pay.. (not sure if this true but it happens a lot during peak election seasons here)

— Yash Kahandole (@realYashK) February 24, 2020

Trump also visited Mohandas Gandhi’s humble home and planned to visit the Taj Mahal before flying to Delhi for the business part of his trip, as well as some vegetarian meals.

Modi provided Trump a lot of imagery the Trump team expects to use in his re-election campaign, AP reports. “Trump’s motorcade traveled amid cheers from a battery of carefully picked and vetted Modi loyalists and workers from his Bharatiya Janata Party who will stand for hours alongside the neatly manicured 14-mile stretch of road to accord the president a grand welcome on his way to the newly constructed stadium. Tens of thousands of police officers were on hand to keep security tight and a new wall has come up in front of a slum, apparently to hide it from presidential passers-by.”

Trump also had a bit of an embarrassing moment, when he told a joke during the rally, and well, it just didn’t land.

Take a look:

This was supposed to be a joke pic.twitter.com/6R1R4Rwt5r

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 24, 2020