Tickets for the upcoming stadium tour with disgraced ex-Fox News personality Bill O’Reilly and disgraced, twice impeached one-term President Donald Trump are not selling as well as the crowd size obsessed former president would like.
O’Reilly and Trump announced their joint ‘History Tour‘ last month saying it would launch in December with events in four cities, Sunrise and Orlando, Florida and Houston and Dallas, Texas.
In their statement at the time both men hyped the event with O’Reilly saying it “will not be boring,” and Trump promising “fun, fun, fun, for everyone who attends!”
But, the hype is not translating into ticket sales. Tickets to hear both men speak have been on sale for more than a month and thousands of seats still remain.
“There’s still a lot of tickets open,” an employee at the 20,000-capacity Amway Center in Orlando told Politico. “We have concerts that are doing a lot better than this.”
The employee did not specify just how many seats are left but by comparison, tickets for a Bad Bunny concert at the same venue sold out within two days, despite the fact that the concert will be held next March.
It is a similar situation in Dallas where a stadium employee at the 20,000–seat American Airlines Center said a “large number” of seats are still available. In Houston an employee with access to ticket sales information at the 19,000-seat Toyota Center, estimated that “60 to 65 percent of seats remain unsold.” And a box office employee at the BB&T Center in Sunrise said that they would have expected sales for the Trump-O’Reilly event there to have been “definitely higher” by now.
“It hasn’t been [selling] like crazy,” the person added, noting that events for comedian Katt Williams and podcast star Joe Rogan have done “significantly” better than the Trump-O’Reilly duo thus far, Politico reported.
O’Reilly told Politico that tickets for Sunrise, Florida event is 75 percent sold out and that not all of the 19,000 seats in Houston will be used. He said the reporting about lackluster ticket sales in Orlando is “bullshit.” Asked how many tickets have been sold so far at the venue, O’Reilly said he did not know.
A Trump aide told Politico that the former president hasn’t promoted the events very much since they went on sale, and that “many tickets” haven’t yet been made available.
