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“It’s just chaos, absolute chaos,” one social media post states. Sheriff’s deputies give some people rides.
Some who attended former President Donald Trump’s rally outside Coachella on Saturday, Oct. 12, needed rides from sheriff’s deputies to get back to their cars amid reports of rallygoers being stranded in the dark miles from their vehicles after shuttle buses stopped running.
There also were reports of Trump supporters being overcome in the 90- to 100-degree desert heat as they waited for the 2024 Republican presidential nominee to speak.
Also, Trump suggested a heckler would get “the hell knocked out of her” during a speech that demonized migrants and threatened to withhold wildfire money from California if Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom doesn’t abide by Trump’s wishes on water policy.
Buses ferried thousands of rallygoers from three off-site parking lots to the early evening rally at Calhoun Ranch just outside Coachella’s city limits. Trump, the Republican 2024 presidential nominee, started speaking shortly after 5:30 p.m. and wrapped up his remarks shortly before 7 p.m.
People on X, formerly known as Twitter, reported being unable to catch a bus from the ranch back to where they parked. The three lots — one at the Riverside County Fairgrounds in Indio, another near the Spotlight 29 casino and a third near a gas station — were roughly 5 miles away from the venue.
“Apparently the buses are no longer coming,” a man said in a video posted on X by @58bugeye, which showed a line of people in the dark amid the flashing lights of Riverside County Sheriff’s Department vehicles.
“There used to be, like, 20 buses when we were being brought here, but now there’s only, like, three buses operating,” the man added. “It’s just chaos, absolute chaos. All of us are stranded here, everyone is stranded here.”
Let's all bask in the warmth of confidence we all certainly must share in knowing that America could end up in no more secure hands than those of such an organizational genius as Donald Trump. Shall we.....?
