When NYC put 7000 police officers on extra duty, put up barricades, but the Trumpsters failed to show up. The made for TV, staged fiasco of 100,000 snarling Trump fans crashing police barricades wasn't going to happen.
The optics of no one showing up for the event would be even worse.
for me, this one was a huge confirmation trump was part of the swamp.
he was busy signing pardons requested by Kim Kardashian
Trump also deferred all responsibility to Pence.
Trump pussed out, told his supporters to protest and then split, and blamed Pence for why Trump bitched out and allowed mass scale scam mail voting and never took charge of the fucking justice department and let jews run the fucking nation into the ground.
He should have listed 50 cities to protest in, told people he would be randomly selecting a few, select a few, then switch it up, then cancel after resources were wasted.
In every situation like this there are people who know it's just a party and people who take everything very seriously, it's amusing unto itself but a significant majority of Trump's popularity came from autistic memelords on 4chan, you'll notice way less pepe frogs and pede references in pro trump communities ever since the party has been over
The whole game is to make people afraid to protest. And if they do protest, to frame them for crimes and delegitimize the protested issue.
It is a "head I win, tails you lose" setup.