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HUMILIATING: Trump and O’Reilly Having Huge Trouble Selling Tickets to Their Speaking Tour

Trump hates to be embarrassed, perhaps more than any other emotion and so it sounds like some MAGAs might want to prepare to hear an announcement about some unexpected “business issue” or “conflict” which prevents the Trump-O’Reilly speaking tour set for later this year. One immediately thinks about “Tulsa” looming in the back of Trump’s mind. It would be very embarrassing to speak to a cavernous arena.

According to Politico:

Donald Trump 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.

The embarrassment is one thing, but it sounds like they could both take a serious economic hit if this doesn’t succeed:

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 Trump and O’Reilly and a pre-show, 45minute reception.

And at this point, all four members of U2 have fallen off their chairs in laughter. Those are U2 prices and one gets a hell of a lot more entertainment and energy at one of their “events.” That sound you just heard was Springsteen’s head hitting the table.

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.

Bad Bunny? If someone doesn’t get word into the Trump camp that he’s getting worked by Bad Bunny we need to start revoking some citizenships. Incidentally, we have never heard of Bad Bunny but they just became one of our favorite bands. If we haven’t heard of them, neither has Trump, which means he’s getting his ass kicked by a bunny.

For Trump’s Houston event with O’Reilly at the 19,000-seat Toyota Center, home to the NBA’s Houston Rockets, 60 to 65 percent of seats remain unsold, an employee with access to ticket sales information estimated. And in Sunrise, Florida, a box office employee at the BB&T Center said that they would have expected sales for the Trump-O’Reilly event there to have been “definitely higher” by now.

To be fair, there are some serious conflicts with each event keeping some people out, things like “dinner,” Netflix binges, and the like.

Bad Bunny. Tulsa here we come.

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Jason
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