Trump’s True Crowd Size Exposed in Embarrassing Video – Donald Trump always insists he has the biggest crowds. The truth looks a little different.

https://newrepublic.com/post/186758/donald-trump-crowd-size-exposed-video

45 Comments

  1. Very few are even showing up at his rallies nowadays. And apparently, those who do are mostly leaving early

  2. The big gaps in the crowd in the bleachers show that he couldn’t even fill the small space he was in. I’m actually kind of shocked.

  3. Didn’t he just say they had to turn away 50,000 people at his earlier event. When he’s only got ⅓ of a school gym.

  4. -misanthroptimist on

    History’s first Non-Character Player is a shallow little man who knows he’s inadequate in every meaningful way. He tries to make up for his total lack of anything positive by bellowing how great he is and hoping no one looks behind the facade.

  5. And no one would care if he hadn’t constantly made a big deal out of crowd sizes over the past 8 years.

  6. I just hope no one deludes themselves into thinking the absentees aren’t still voting for him in droves. This just means they know his shtick by heart.

  7. We can extend this truth. Small and unenthusiastic rallies sounds similar to a pathetic ground game other than people you hire to wander around. Relatively anemic fundraising, especially from small donors, fits with almost no endorsements to speak of, and plenty of Republican counter endorsers. This is a campaign, headed toward life support.

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  9. NeverSayNever2024 on

    Pics like these are the reason I don’t believe the poll nbrs. tRump is all about perception. I’ve seen it by me with the truck convoys for tRump.

  10. I’m waiting for Mango to claim this is just AI, that crowd there was actually 50,000.

  11. Impressive-Pizza1876 on

    A little ? Train tracks don’t lie as hard as Trump does. I say throw him under a train.

  12. To be fair, Saginaw Michigan is a small town far from a major city, and this was at 3:00pm in the afternoon. There is zero chance he sets foot in a place like Ann Arbor, Lansing, or Detroit.

    Trump doesn’t need large crowds. He can lie about that later without shame. He just needs *adoring* crowds in that moment. His narcissism can ride that wave of adoration for a while.

  13. If Donny says the crowd is large,it’s small. If Donny says the crowd is small, it’s YUGE. Trumpian Rule of Opposites.

  14. What’s hilarious is that no one cared about crowd size until trump’s fragile ego came along but now he’s eating crow almost every day

  15. “The low turnout is significant for a candidate who has frequently attacked his political opponents for their inability to draw as many people …”

    Because he’s always lied about how many show up for him, and he’s always lied to downplay how many showed for his opponents.
    If you didn’t get that from watching his inauguration streamed live where he called it the largest ever where everyone saw it’s poor attendance clearly, and then he later put out doctored photos, then there is no hope for you.

  16. TwistedMemories on

    He has SS hold people outside at checkpoints until he gets close to speaking. This way, you see a big crowd waiting to get, and a mostly empty audience jus before he speaks.

    Once he has them released to go inside, he keeps tight shots of the crowwd as it’s still not enough to fill the venue.

  17. Trump is simply a road show. A con man selling his snake oil like they did 100 years ago. He is an actor that will tell you anything so you will buy his brand. The crowds keep getting and so do his donations. Everyone if figuring its the same old same old.

  18. The Harris campaign needs to keep this kind of attack up, this hits Trump where it hurts the most, his ego. He cannot let stuff like this slide.

  19. He is now blaming the White House by not providing his team enough security.

    Reality is that very few places will rent to him for events as the campaign doesn’t pay .

  20. EconomistSea1444 on

    Why do people act like this is new for Trump or even news?

    He has been doing this same act forever and you have to have been born yesterday to be surprised (or post) about it.

  21. I can’t believe press has to take his bullshit at face value and trot out these articles like its some grand epiphany.

  22. Only those who believe rules, regulations, and legislative constraints do not apply to them support Trump. That’s all you need to know about the MAGA cult.

  23. omg, the world wasn’t obsessed with crowd sizes prior to 2016.

    This shit is so stupid and gets so much coverage. Can we as a society not see the damage and brain rot that 45 hath wrought upon us.

    The fact that people care about crowd size at rally’s SO MUCH now because an old orange moron made such a stink about it 8 years ago is frankly embarrassing.