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Presidential visit

Posted on July 24, 2024July 24, 2024 by Mike

Whaddya whaddya, the Trump Train has come to town.

Live updates: Trump rally at Bojangles Coliseum hears from Republican candidates, RNC chair
Crowds began arriving at Bojangles Coliseum in Charlotte hours before former President Donald Trump’s planned 6 p.m. campaign speech.

Doors opened for the event at 2 p.m. and Trump is scheduled to speak at 6 p.m.

Here are live updates from the scene:
5:30 p.m.

Trump’s plane landed in Charlotte just before 5:30 p.m., 30 minutes before he was scheduled to speak. Traffic surrounding Charlotte’s uptown has been at a standstill for hours.

That’s the most recent update as of right this minute. At 2:10P, Coliseum* officials announced that all designated event parking-lots were full. Photos of the crowd accompanying the CLT Disturber (a/k/a the Pravda Of The South) article are pretty danged impressive, I must say. Strangely, the Disturber having always been a staunch, dyed-in-the-wool shitlib propaganda rag, Red in tooth and claw, I see no mention whatever of the sundry Loony Left protesters outside the Coliseum, and I know for a certainty there are some. in fact, I can think of at least three (3) good friends of mine, females all, who wouldn’t have missed it for worlds, no way no how.

Uncomfirmed reports of today’s competing Biden/Harris/Whoever campaign event in the West Mecklenburg High School gymnasium drawing a well under half-capacity “crowd”—veritably all of this cpl-three dozen consisting not of Biden/Harris/Yehyehyehyeh supporters but of journolismists, hangers-on, campaign staff, security, and a rancid grab-bag of baglappers, knob-polishers, and rumpswabs—could not be verified as of presstime.

* This would be the same arena in which I saw KISS; Aerosmith; AC/DC; Da Nooge; Foghat; Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush; REO Speedwagon; Ronnie Montrose; Styx; Van Halen; WCW’s Slamboree; the CLT Checkers hockey team; Ringling Bros & Barnum & Bailey Circus; and many, many other notable events over my years as a callow youth. Jimi Hendrix opened for the Monkees and was booed off the stage there; I know a woman who attended that show, taken by her mom as a youngster, but it was well before my time, alas. Elvis Presley played there lots of times, including one of his very last shows only a few months before his sad demise. Local folks of my advanced years or older still call it “the old Coliseum” for simplicity’s sake, seeing as how the place changed names several times after the new ‘un had relegated it to second-class-citizen status, enough that the name-changes became something of a running joke. IIRC, the official capacity for most events is a bit over 18k, up to as much as 22k max depending on stage/seating/PA arrangements, advance ticket sales or lack thereof, etc. The acoustics are dreadful, the seating cramped and uncomfortable, the floor gummy with spilled beer, soda, and other such-like horrors

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