Trump's Rally Sizes Continue To Get Smaller

Donald Trump loves to brag about the number of people who show up to his rallies, even when he knows he's lying. And his team has had to do an awful lot of lying about his recent rallies because the crowds keep getting smaller and smaller. One GOP strategist said that it is simply a matter of people getting tired of him and no longer believing that he is relevant. If that's the case, then Trump is in serious trouble, as Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains.

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This past weekend, Donald Trump, as I've talked about held a rally in Selma, North Carolina, and it kind of followed the trend that we had just seen with Donald Trump's previous rally and that is, a lot of empty seats. A lot of people not there and in fact, according to one Republican strategists who spoke to MSNBC this past weekend, the crowds at each subsequent rally are getting smaller and smaller and smaller. In other words, Donald Trump does not have the reach, he does not have the draw that he used to have and it's important to remember too, that Trump is not just showing up at these rallies alone. At the previous one in Georgia, right, you had Senate candidates, you had gubernatorial candidates. You've got big elections in Georgia. Trump's out there promoting these candidates.

People didn't wanna, didn't wanna see it. Didn't wanna show up. Didn't wanna be bothered. Same thing with the North Carolina one this past weekend. Madison Cawthorn was there. You had other Republican candidates there and still people said, meh, not for me. Right. Not exactly the kind of thing I wanna waste my Saturday doing to see this man yet again, whine and about the same things he whines and about every single time he gets in front of a microphone. And that's very bad news for Donald Trump, because Trump doesn't seem to understand the concept of burnout or to think of it in economic terms, you know, diminishing, marginal utility, right? You hold one, rally every three or four months, it's gonna be a big deal, right? Everybody's gonna wanna show it because there's limited availability. You create the scarcity for it.

But when there is no scarcity, when everybody knows like, oh, I didn't get to go see Trump today, but he'll be down the street tomorrow and he'll be a couple blocks away the next day. So who cares? You know, maybe I'll catch one of those. I don't know. He's just everywhere. I'm kind of sick of the guy. That's what's happening to Donald Trump. He never let the public miss him and that's because he is addicted, and I do personally believe he is physically addicted, to the attention that he gets. But think about it this way. Why do we always look back at past administrations and give those presidents, no matter how horrible they were, better approval ratings than they ever got when they were in office? George W. Bush is a great example of that. The guy lived most of his administration with an approval rating that was underwater. Couple years after he had left, boom, he's at 60%.

Now he's even got a majority approval rating among Democrats and we hated his guts. But he disappears for many years, we tend to forget things because new things happen, new things come up, we move on, our memories aren't as great as they were back then. And we look back and we say, oh, maybe he wasn't that bad. I don't say that, by the way, but it's because you miss them. They disappear and you forget some of the worst things. Trump hasn't given us that. Trump has stayed out there. Trump has stayed angry. Trump has said the same things day and day and day and day and day after day after day. We also of course have very, very many investigations into the man. So I'm sure that's not helping either. But Trump's addiction to this attention is what is killing him because the more he's out there, the less the public wants to see him.