One of the many things Trump lies about is the size of his crowds.
Shortly after Trump began his occupation of the White House in 2017, he sent spokesgoon Sean Spicer out to talk to the press about what?… About the size of his inauguration crowd.
All predictions that Trump was going to be a horrible president (sic) were confirmed on his first day in office when the most pressing matter to him was the size of his inauguration. Most specifically, he needed to argue that the attendance for his inauguration was larger than the one for President Barack Obama’s crowd.
Trump had a much larger attendance than President Obama if we’re counting tractors.
Spicer argued with the press that Trump’s crowd was larger than Obama’s, which was a huge lie. When you look at photos of the two crowds for comparison, there is no doubt who had the larger crowd. It’s Obama. When you look at the photos, there’s a lot of empty space for Trump’s inauguration.
Before this, we never even thought to compare the sizes of crowds. But Trump had to be a baby about it. In fact, he’s still being a baby about it.
By the way, Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden were all at Trump’s inauguration. Trump was too much of a coward to extend the same courtesy to President Joe Biden during his inauguration. Trump was on a plane to Florida with a lot of stolen classified documents during President Biden’s inauguration. Mike Pence did attend because, for him, it was nice to be around a crowd that wasn’t trying to hang him.
Fairly recently, Trump claimed he had a larger crowd in New Jersey than Bruce Springsteen ever had. Fans of Trump said the attendance in Wildwood, NJ was even larger than the crowd for Taylor Swift at Met Life Stadium, which is also in New Jersey.
Swift had recently played three nights at Met Life with an attendance of around 72,000 for each night. Springsteen had similar numbers the last time he played Met Life. Trump has never held a rally where the attendance was even near 72,000.
By the way, I’m loving the locations for Trump rallies. Yes, rally in the Bronx and New Jersey, two states that are not in play. Please continue to rally in Montana where you lead Harris by 15 points. Don’t take those 15 points for granted. In fact, Trump should spend less time in the so-called swing states of Nevada, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina, and Georgia. Trump should spend more time in Idaho, the Dakotas, Mississippi, Wyoming, and Arkansas. He needs to lock those states down.
The people who counted the attendance in Wildwood didn’t just count the Trumpers, they counted everyone in town, residents and tourists. I doubt Trump had 15,000.
Team MAGA claimed the crowd for his Bronx rally was 25,000, and then they upped it to 35,000. That attendance is more than you can fit into Madison Square Garden. But the permit Trump received for the rally was for only 3,500 people which would be impressive in the Bronx.
MAGAts love to tweet out photos of crowds at concerts, sporting events, and NASCAR (that’s not a sport) and claim they’re from Trump rallies.
Trumpers have used crowd sizes as proof he couldn’t have lost the 2020 election. How could he lose to a guy hiding in a basement, they would argue. They believe that whoever draws the most people to a rally wins the election. Yeah, not so much. They do the same thing with yard signs, like yard signs vote.
Trump usually does bring in more people than most other politicians but it’s not proof of who’s more popular. Trump’s followers are a cult. We don’t choose our president by who sells the most NFTs, shitty sneakers, and Bibles either. But now, Trump has lost the crowd argument which is probably why he said so much unhinged bullshit at his press conferences this week.
Kamala Harris is on a tear of swing states, pulling in crowds in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan with attendance of around 15,000 for each. Trump doesn’t pull in these numbers.
During the press conference, Trump said his January 6 insurrection crowd was larger than Martin Luther King’s crowd for his I-Have-A-Dream speech.
Trump said, “If you look at Martin Luther King when he did his speech, his great speech, and you look at ours, same real estate, same everything, same number of people.”
Then he changed it during the press conference and said, “But when you look at the exact same picture and everything is the same — because it was the fountains, the whole thing all the way back to go from Lincoln to Washington — and you look at it, and you look at the picture of my crowd ... we actually had more people.”
MLK gave his speech on August 28, 1963, which was delivered to an estimated 250,000 people. For Trump’s speech rallying white nationalist terrorists to attack the Capitol on January 6, 2021, he had an angry racist crowd of around 53,000. That’s a huge crowd for sure, but in case you’re a MAGAt, 250 is a greater number than 53.
And why would Trump want to compare Jan 6 to MLK’s August 28? King’s speech was about love, civil rights, and democracy. He said, “I had a dream.” Trump barked about giving this nation a nightmare. His rally was full of lies and hate delivered to hate groups. King wanted democracy for everyone. Trump’s speech was a rallying cry to destroy democracy. It doesn’t matter how many people were there, Trump’s speech was horrible.
By the way, Hitler drew in large crowds too. They weren’t as large as MLK’s but about the same sizes as Trump’s.
I’ve been to a Trump rally back in 2016 and that one may have had about 3,000 people….maybe. This was back in 2016 and when I shared a photo I took from the back of the room, MAGAts called me a liar. They said it was before Trump came out but it was taken during his speech. There was a lot of free space in that room.
Trump lies about sizes all the time. Remember when he argued about the size of his penis during a Republican primary debate? If that was anything like his crowd size lies, then it had to be very very very tiny.
I think we figured out what he’s overcompensating for.
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What ISN'T he overcompensating for?
How I hate him. Awesome Cartoon though.