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Trump Explodes on Twitter After Being Called Out For Empty Seats at NH Rally, ‘Biggest Crowd EVER!!’

If there’s one thing that matters to Donald Trump, it’s crowd size.

Ever since his inauguration, Trump has used every occasion possible to scream from the rooftops that his rallies and events have the largest crowds of all time.

On Thursday night, Trump held a rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, and to be honest, the crowd didn’t look to be huge. Don’t get me wrong, Trump brought in a lot of people, but a quick look at the arena shows many empty seats.

Including prime seats that were right behind the president as he was speaking.

Take a look:

On Friday morning, Trump tweeted about the huge crowds.

By Friday afternoon, more than 70,000 tweets had been shared using the hashtag #EmptySeatMAGATour, many of which included footage and photos from Trump’s rally at the SNHU Arena in Manchester the night before.

Most footage from the event showed large crowds as the president spoke, though one tweet that went viral highlighted a video clip from MSNBC showing Trump delivering remarks with a number of empty seats off to one side of the stage.

Apparently Trump didn’t like the criticism, because Friday night he let out a bunch more tweets, calling out the “lame stream media” for lying about his crowd size.

Now, we can see that many seats were empty. Who cares? It’s New Hampshire, a state that leans blue, and it was also hot as blazes and maybe people didn’t want to wait 12 hours in the searing sun to see the orange fool. But alas Trump sees it as a personal slight, and continues to lie even though we can see seats are empty.

Twitter quickly called Trump out:

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