Did you hear? Eleventy bazillion people showed up to hear Donald Vonshitzinpants drone on for hours about himself in Wildwood, New Jersey. Welp, Lisa Fagan, spokesperson for the city of Wildwood, is the one who guestimated that between 80,000 and 100,000 attendees were there, “based on her own observations on the scene Saturday, having seen ‘dozens’ of other events in the same space.” This really needs a 'Sure, Jan" gif. Trumpers ran with that number, but Fagan and I’m going to guess that she’s a Trump supporter, who knows, was way off.
The story has changed. Wildwood officials now say the 80K to 100K number was not the number on the beach at the rally but the total number of people “in our town,” including restaurants, bars, and other places. Imagine that.
Oh wow. The full time population of the town is just over 5000, but it’s full of summer homes and can get up to 250,000 in the summer.
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It is a huge tourist destination for New Jerseyans and Pennsylvanians (though Jerseyans don’t typically stay there over night, in my experience). It’s got the beach and the boardwalk, the latter of which is what most people go there for. Rides, carnival games, tourist shops, etc. Also a big drinking culture for the younger crowd.
That sounds like an incredibly annoying place to live, but fun to visit.
It’s actually not so bad because it’s quiet most of the year. Tourist season does suck, though.
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