Trump rules out socially distanced rallies: "You can't have empty seats"

What he's saying: "You know, if I had five empty seats — for instance, they said, 'Would I do a rally, sir?' The reason I won’t do them [is] because, you can have one seat and then seven around that seat, sir, have to be empty," Trump told Fox News Radio.

"Oh, that'll look great. You know, you have one person and everything's empty around them. You can’t do that."

Of note: Trump's indoor campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in June attracted a smaller-than-expected crowd of 6,200 in the 19,200-capacity BOK Center, according to the city's fire department. The Trump campaign insists 12,000 people were in attendance.

• The Tulsa City-County Health Department said last month the rally and related protests "more than likely" contributed to the area's surge in coronavirus cases.
• His outdoor rally that was due to take place last month with people wearing face masks encouraged in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, was postponed because of a tropical storm.