# Donald Trump — "Be there, will be wild!" > [!quote] "Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!" > — Donald Trump, Twitter, December 19, 2020 (1:42 a.m.) > > *Posted in the same thread as his claim that it was "Statistically impossible to have lost the 2020 Election."* ## Context Sent at 1:42 a.m. on December 19, 2020, hours after a contentious White House meeting in which advisers refused to back Trump's stolen-election claims. The [[January 6 Capitol Attack]] Select Committee called it the "tweet heard around the world," documenting how it galvanized far-right groups and ordinary supporters to converge on Washington for January 6. Pro-Trump forums treated "will be wild" as a call to action. ## Why this matters **1. The summons.** The Committee identified this post as the specific signal that organized the January 6 crowd — the moment a diffuse grievance became a dated, located mobilization. Multiple criminal defendants later cited it as why they came. **2. Stochastic mechanism at scale.** "Be there, will be wild!" ordered nothing explicitly, yet functioned as permission-and-coordination for what followed — the defining structure of [[Stochastic Terrorism]], here operating as mass mobilization rather than single-target marking. ## Verification - **Wording**: "Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!" — verified via the [[J6 Committee]] final report, The Hill, CREW, Democracy Now. - **Timestamp**: 1:42 a.m., December 19, 2020. - **Committee framing**: "tweet heard around the world"; central to the incitement case. ## See also - [[Donald Trump - 2020-12-19 - be there will be wild]] — paired Social Post entry - [[Donald Trump - 2021-01-06 - pence courage tweet]] — the next escalation, posted during the attack - [[January 6 Capitol Attack]] - [[Twitter]] — the venue