Not only are musicians declining to perform, but people themselves are refusing to buy tickets to attend President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, leaving scalpers with the now grim and real possibility of having to attend the event themselves.
With the lowest approval rating of any of the last four presidents – only 44 percent of Americans – according to a recent Gallup poll, Trump is finding it hard to fill out seats at the inauguration ceremony, which has already been marked for disruption by activists and protesters around the country.
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Scalpers who bought tickets to the event in the hopes of reselling them to wealthy Republicans are therefore running into difficulties finding people to take them off their hands. Yossi Rosenberg, a Democrat who bought a pair of tickets for $700 from a woman in New York, is one of those scalpers.
"Nobody wants to buy them," he told The Daily News. "It looks like I'm stuck with them, I might even have to go."
Rosenberg bought the tickets hoping to make extra money on them given that many Trump supporters are wealthy. But after initially getting offers for them, he said, “everybody balked.”
He first tried selling them through Facebook and through Craigslist, all to no avail. He then tried peddling the tickets in white supremacist websites given that many of them have come out in fierce support of Trump and his racist, bigoted policies.
They, too, showed no interest.
He finally tried selling them at his office, where he got a $200 offer, far below what he was looking for or even what he had paid. "I guess his approval ratings aren't that high, right?" Rosenberg mused to The Daily News.
All this means that if nobody buys Rosenberg’s tickets, he said he might just bite the bullet and go to the event once and for all, as many others probably will have to do as well.
"I never intended on going, I really thought I'd see some profit," he told The Daily News. "If I don't sell them for what I paid within 72 hours, I'm just going to go."