A Gay Teen Tweeted to Reserve Tickets to Trump Rallies & NOT Show Up (Guess What Happened..?)

The Borg battle cry in the Star Trek films was

“resistance is futile”

But today’s #resistance finds a way.

Seventeen-year-old Noah sent off a few tweets as a joke. (Trump likes a good “joke” at his rallies, right?) But those resisting took him seriously. On Twitter earlier this month, he wrote,

“Hey everyone you totally shouldn’t go on trump’s website and reserve tickets for his rally and not show up so that there’s empty seats (the tickets are free) but you should definitely not do that!!”

And the responses started coming in shortly ,

“I TOTALLY didn’t get 10.”

Many chimed in and Noah’s tweet got around 40,000 retweets.

And, according to reports at a reelection rally, even though there were many empty seats inside,

“thousands of Trump supporters were locked out of the SNHU Arena in Manchester, New Hampshire.”

#EmptySeatMAGATour started trending on Twitter.

Why? There were thousands of seats reserved for people who didn’t show up.

Noah told Out magazine,

“My coworker was talking to me about how weird Trump’s website is. It’s kind of… not like cult-y but sort of Utopian looking? I decided to go on there because I had never been, and I wanted to see what was there. I see that they are having a rally and you could buy tickets. So I wondered how much they cost. When I went to the ticket website it said that they were free and I was like, “Oh?” Like … anyone with an American phone number can reserve a ticket. I posted about it on Twitter as a joke, saying that it would be horrible if people bought tickets and didn’t go.
I really didn’t know if it would work or not, but according to articles I saw, there were all these empty seats, but they weren’t letting anyone in. My only logical conclusion is that it’s because of this, that since we had all these reserved seats, they couldn’t let people without a ticket in, even if they were true fans.
Even when it was blowing up, I didn’t think it would happen. I just thought it was a joke that the Trump PR people would have to read all of these tweets. I was sort of trolling them.
I got some DMs:

‘Oh, you’re such an idiot. That’s not ever going to work.’

But honestly, I never expected it to work. I just thought it was funny. I kind of expected people who were Trumpers to come after me, but I really only had maybe 10-ish mean DMs. This one guy DM’d me and said,

‘You need to go kiss your boyfriend and get off Twitter.’

And like, that was so brave of him to assume that I’m dating someone. I’m so single. You think I’m cute enough to have a boyfriend? Thank you for saying that! Otherwise, it was people trying to insult me for being vegan and being gay, so those really cheap insults.
I post political stuff on Twitter sometimes, and it’s sort of serious, sort of joking. Because Trump sucks and I just want people to be happy and laughing.”

“I get really sad about Trump being president all the time, so I wanted to post something for people to find something funny in a shitty situation.”

Me too, Noah. You really shouldn’t go to Trump’s website and reserve tickets and not show up. That would be rude.

#resist

hey everyone you totally shouldn't go on tr*mp's website and reserve tickets for his rally and not show up so that there's empty seats (the tickets are free) but you should definitely not do that!!!
— noah🏳️‍🌈 (@noahforchange) August 10, 2019