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.
Great time in New Hampshire last night. Placed was maxed out, totally packed, with thousands coming to the arena floor at start. Thousands more outside that were not allowed in per code. Energy was really great to see. We will win New Hampshire in 2020!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 17, 2019 [1]
Look at the tremendous overflow at packed arena in New Hampshire last night. Sorry we couldn’t get you in, will be back soon! pic.twitter.com/Rvd2TeJrpo [2]
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 17, 2019 [3]
Biggest crowd EVER, according to Arena people. Thousands outside trying to get in. Place was packed! Radical Left Dems & their Partner, LameStream Media, saying Arena empty. Check out pictures. Fake News. The Enemy of the People! https://t.co/KkZWspM93a [4]
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 17, 2019 [5]
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:
Lol you cropped out the upper tier, which was half empty. pic.twitter.com/i8GQJOOm5H [6]
— Helen Kennedy (@HelenKennedy) August 16, 2019 [7]
You sure bro? pic.twitter.com/epxkVmJByk [8]
— Shugar (@GregShugar) August 16, 2019 [9]
You know, I’m having a little trouble believing that. pic.twitter.com/KvrE20RMfw [10]
— Santiago (@santiagomayer_) August 16, 2019 [11]
Looks like a lot of empty seats via this #FoxNews [12] report. Why do you have to #lie [13] about everything? pic.twitter.com/UQleq53A2z [14]
— Valerie Montana (@BigSky3450) August 16, 2019 [15]
Those empty seats tho pic.twitter.com/rB89EPtcwh [16]
— ElElegante101 (@skolanach) August 16, 2019 [17]
In case you want t see the real photos … Empty seat city….just piss you off to no end that no one would take your money to sit in those seats, down wind flatulence zone not even your Depends can contain pic.twitter.com/yxeH0MkOmx [18]
— BgMac (@bgmacneill) August 16, 2019 [19]
Wow — there sure were a lot of empty seats at tonight’s #TrumpRally [20]! SAD!! 😂@realDonaldTrump [21] #NewHampshireRally [22] pic.twitter.com/t2BgMG5E1h [23]
— Jon Cooper (@joncoopertweets) August 16, 2019 [24]
This lie detector test determined that was a lie pic.twitter.com/pbKGK23BDQ [25]
— DKT (@darleneturner53) August 16, 2019 [26]
I don't know about that. pic.twitter.com/QCK9B65Und [27]
— Melanie (@m_reegz) August 16, 2019 [28]
Ha ha ha, doubtful. #EmptySeatsTrump [29] pic.twitter.com/IS8EZMOTt8 [30]
— PebblesJ (@Madison_Jourdan) August 16, 2019 [31]