Donald Trump Campaigns at Cumberland Valley High School

Daniel Zampogna, PennLiveRepublican presidential candidate Donald Trump campaigns at Cumberland Valley High School in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania on Monday August 1, 2016. Daniel Zampogna, PennLive

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If there's one thing President Donald Trump loves, it's big crowds.

But if a North Carolina mom has her way, Trump's Saturday rally in Harrisburg will be full of empty seats.

According to multiple reports, the mother, Susan Mayo, has launched a campaign to snag as many seats as possible to the event and then leave them empty. Mayo said she got the idea from this meme, which she saw circulating online.

Tickets are required to attend Saturday's rally inside the 7,300-seat Farm Show Complex, although it's unclear if empty ones could be filled by standby fans waiting outside.

According to BuzzFeed, Mayo's stunt first drew attention online after her daughter posted a screenshot of a surprise notification she'd received on her phone confirming her seats for Saturday's rally. It was followed by a message from her mother explaining why.

"You're gonna get an email thanking you for registering for a Trump rally," the follow-up message read. "I'm registering as many people as I can so there'll be empty seats."

Mashable.com quotes the daughter, Becca Mayo, as saying: "It seriously made me realize how much I'm like her because this is some next-level petty that I would 100 percent also think of doing."

Others on Twitter were similarly supportive of the effort, which recalls a nearly identical ploy launched by Trump opponents before one of his rallies in Kentucky last year.

That event was still heavily attended by Trump fans, or, as the Lexington Herald-Leader reported, "a large, enthusiastic crowd that lined up around the Kentucky International Convention Center hours ahead of time to cheer for the businessman-turned-candidate."

But the rally did include a number of protester ejections, many called for by Trump himself, and part of the empty seats protest there involved Trump opponents claiming their seats before emptying them mid-event.

But there are key differences between the Kentucky rally in March of last year and Saturday's rally in Harrisburg, namely the fact that Trump was a candidate then and is now president of the United States.

In fact, Trump's Harrisburg rally will coincide with his 100th day in office, and his new position means tighter security is all but guaranteed.

Meanwhile, Susan Mayo told PennLive of a two tickets-per-email address limit for the event, but said she hoped others would follow her lead and reserve tickets they never planned to use.

"I wish I could say I claimed a thousand. ... I was merely trying to do my part to make sure at least a few chairs were empty," Mayo said via Facebook. "Many of my friends hopefully did the same."

As of Saturday, it was unclear if any of Mayo's friends had followed her lead. Also unclear was whether their efforts would have any appreciable impact on attendance at the Farm Show Complex.

If similar campaigns in the past are any indication, however, the answer is likely no.

UPDATE: This article has been updated to include comment from Susan Mayo.