No empty seats, but plenty of shills and stooges.
Hollering, whistling, and excitement over even most banal Trump statements. Someone wanted to make sure the "interruption/applause" count would be high.
Like I said, it was a show. Like dubbed in laughter on TV.
Alex
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
-- Isaac Asimov