‘We had a better light show!’ Blue Wiggle Anthony Field shares photo of The Wiggles’ sell out concert at the 19,000-seat BOK Center – after just 6,200 turned up to Donald Trump’s rally at the same venue
The Wiggles’ performer Anthony Field has shared a photo of their sell-out show at the 19,000-seat BOK Center – the same venue where Donald Trump held his rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday.
On Monday, Anthony, 57, retweeted a post made by a fan, which showed The Wiggles’ full house at the venue in 2009, as part of their Go Bananas Live Tour.
Beside it was another photo, showing the sparse room at Trump’s Tulsa rally, to which just 6,200 people turned up.
Cheeky: The Wiggles’ performer Anthony Field (pictured) has shared a photo of their sell-out show at the 19,000-seat BOK Center – the same venue where Donald Trump held his rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday
Anthony captioned his retweet with the cheeky comment: ‘To be fair, we had a better light show!’
The comparison led to The Wiggles trending on Twitter, and Blue Wiggle Anthony marveled at the turn of events.
He tweeted a second time, writing: ‘First time in Wiggle History we have trended in Politics! Free Fruit Salad for everyone is our message!’
Compared: On Monday, Anthony, 57, retweeted a post made a fan, which showed The Wiggles’ full house at the venue in 2009, as part of their Go Bananas Live Tour. Beside it was another photo, showing the sparse room at Trump’s Tulsa rally, to which just 6,200 people turned up
Hot potato! The comparison led to The Wiggles trending on Twitter. Anthony tweeted a second time, writing: ‘First time in Wiggle History we have trended in Politics! Free Fruit Salad for everyone is our message!’
The Wiggles are an Australian children’s music group formed in 1991, who are popular around the world.
The group’s current members are Anthony Field, Lachlan Gillespie, Simon Pryce, and Emma Watkins.
Ahead of Trump’s rally on Saturday, he and his campaign manager Brad Parscale bragged that one million tickets had been requested.
Claims: Ahead of Trump’s rally on Saturday, Trump (pictured) and his campaign manager Brad Parscale bragged that one million tickets had been requested
Turn out: However, the 19,000-seat BOK Center had just 6,200 people in attendance on the night, according to Tulsa officials
Fake tickets: Trump’s campaign has privately admitted that as many as 300,000 of the people who signed up for Saturday’s rally in Tulsa were online tricksters
However the 19,000-seat BOK Center had just 6,200 people in it on the night, according to Tulsa officials.
The high number of requests led the campaign to plan for an outdoor event to handle the expected overflow crowd – only have to cancel it at the last minute when people did not show up.
Trump’s campaign has privately admitted that as many as 300,000 of the people who signed up for Saturday’s rally in Tulsa were online tricksters.
Popular: The Wiggles are an Australian children’s music group formed in 1991. The current members are Anthony Field (second from left), Lachlan Gillespie (far left), Simon Pryce (far right) and Emma Watkins (second from right)