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.
I would have been disappointed in them if they had showed up. We saw Canada, and we saw them pretend the truckers weren't fucking up 495. I