Photos Prove Trump Is Still Lying About Size Of His Rallies

Donald Trump's campaign claimed that about 25,000 people showed up to his rally in The Bronx last week, but that claim was swiftly debunked by aerial photographs that showed a crowd much smaller than that. Trump has been lying consistently about the size of his rally crowds because he believes that is the only barometer to gauge how popular he is. And if he's right about that, then he's definitely in trouble, as Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains.

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So last week, Donald Trump held a rally in the Bronx, and according to his campaign, 25,000 people, 25,000 people showed up outdoors to see Donald Trump speak. 25,000, that is a staggering number of people. And for several days everybody thought, okay, well, they say it's 25,000. We can't prove that it wasn't. So I guess that's the number, right? Well, turns out the Associated Press had some aerial photographs, and those aerial photographs actually showed what looked to be maybe a thousand people, maybe two. In fact, I believe it was the New York Post came out and said maybe 8,000 at the height showed up. But either way, 1000, 2000, 8,000 doesn't matter. None of those numbers are anywhere close to 25,000 people, which means, of course, Donald Trump lied. His campaign lied about how many people were actually willing to show up and support him in the Bronx, similar to the week before when he had that rally in New Jersey where they said that 80,000 people showed up.

And it turns out the real number was maybe 10,000, maybe. So Donald Trump over the last two weeks, or his campaign, I should say, has now lied twice by over-inflating the number of people showing up at his rallies by magnitudes, right? It's not just like, oh, there were 25,000, but really there were 20. You claim 25, the real number was probably five. So you exaggerated the crowd size by five times. You claimed 80,000 at this other rally, and you may have had 8,000. So you inflated that by 10 times. Why? Because the only measure that Donald Trump uses to see how popular he is is the crowd sizes. He has attacked every other politician left and right for not being able to get the same crowd sizes that he gets, but he's lying about the number of people he's actually getting to make himself feel better.

He is not getting tens of thousands of people to show up at his rallies. He's getting hundreds of people to show up at his rallies. And I bring this up not just to debunk this lie that's going around about his crowd sizes, but to point something else out that's seemingly unrelated. We're supposed to believe that this man who has to lie about his crowd sizes so that he seems popular, we are supposed to believe that he's somehow one or two points ahead of Biden in the polls? He can't fill arenas anymore. He can't fill parks anymore. And he is somehow more popular than President Biden? More people in this country say they're gonna vote for him than vote for Biden? That doesn't mesh with reality. Now, I get that some of these people who still support Donald Trump may not want to go to the rallies, right?

But when you consider the fact that social media users pointed out that at his rally in the Bronx, they were going through the parking lot, and here's what they said. Go out there and look at all the cars that are parked and check where they came from. Tennessee, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Texas. So these are people, hardcore Trumpers, traveling, some of them from halfway across the country to go to the Bronx to hear him speak. So you still have the diehards that are willing to follow him around like it's a Phish concert. But those numbers are getting smaller and smaller. That's not to say that you're not still gonna have millions of people vote for him. You will. But I refuse to believe that this man who cannot even pull crowd sizes a third of what he was pulling four years ago during a pandemic.