Ticket sales for loathed Donald are total disaster. Sad!
DONALD TRUMP will take office as one of the most unpopular President-elects in recent history — and even scalpers are feeling the pain.
Some flippers, who acquired tickets to Trump’s inauguration with the intent of reselling them on the secondary market, are striking out in their efforts to peddle them and are now looking at big losses.
Yossi Rosenberg, 36, of upper Manhattan, told the Daily News he bought a pair of tickets to Friday’s Washington event from a woman in Westchester County for $700, thinking he could at least double his money.
But nobody’s biting. “Nobody wants to buy them,” Rosenberg said. “It looks like I’m stuck with them, I might even have to go.”
Rosenberg, who works in software sales, said he occasionally scalps tickets to make a little extra dough and figured, given the wealth of some of Trump’s prominent Republican supporters, he’d receive some interest. “I thought they would be in demand,” Rosenberg, a Democrat, said. “I got offers before I got them, but then I get them and everybody balked.”
Rosenberg bought the pair of tickets on Craigslist from a “Second Amendment activist” in Katonah last week and immediately listed them on his Facebook account, as well as back on Craigslist.
But after receiving no interest, he visited a handful of white supremacist websites, including
the Daily Stormer, where he posted listings for the tickets on the site’s message boards. Even then, nobody expressed interest. It could be that he is simply asking too high a price. Other Craigslist listings for inauguration tickets appeared Monday ranging from $175 to $400 per ticket.
He pinned them to a community bulletin board at his office, and “someone offered me $200 for the pair. I guess his approval ratings aren’t that right, right?”
A new ABC News/Washington Post released Monday found three-quarters of Americans think Trump should release his tax returns — including half of his own supporters — contradicting his recent comment that only the media cares about the issue. Americans were divided over whether his family is complying with ethics laws over his plan to retain ownership of his business interests in the form of a trust run by his sons.