President Donald Trump attends a reelection rally in New Jersey in January 2020. | Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Trump’s campaign said 300,000 have requested tickets for what it called “the hottest ticket ever.”

President Donald Trump boasted about the size of the crowd at his upcoming Tulsa, Oklahoma, campaign rally on Friday, as Dr. Anthony Fauci and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued strong warnings about congregating in large groups.

“We have already had ticket requests in excess of 200,000 people,” the president wrote on Twitter, as he announced the event would be postponed by a day to keep it from falling on Juneteenth. “I look forward to seeing everyone in Oklahoma!”

Trump’s presidential campaign manager Brad Parscale later boasted that the number of registrations had topped 300,000 people, calling the rally “the hottest ticket ever.”

But hours before, Fauci, the