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Trump’s Big Speech at the NRA Convention Looks Like a Big Ol’ Dud Based on Crowd Size

Wow, times are really tough on the big boy. The man who believed that the opportunity to hear himself speak in front of a huge adoring crowd of people overrode any concerns about “good taste” or looking cruel and uncaring in a nation that is both furious and grieving, yes – that man, bucked up to give his talk.

One would think that if there was ever a ready-made audience in the United States able to hear such a grotesque man give his usual grotesque comments at such a grotesquely inappropriate time and inappropriate place, it would be the attendees of the NRA convention in Houston. Houston! A city the size of many small countries, in conservative Texas! (Actually, Texas wouldn’t be conservative, it would be Georgia, if they allowed everyone to vote, which is why they have the strictest voting laws in the nation.) And yes, Texas, the state in which the decent people are all still in shock.

And yet, for some reason, in an amphitheater smaller than most high school football stadiums in the south, there seems to be some real excess room to see Trump. Is it possible that even a lot of NRA members don’t want to hear about 2020 being rigged and how great everything was under Trump? It sure looks to be the case:

Yes, yes, as a matter of fact, Twitter did notice:

UPDATE: Reporter Stephen Gutowski said the crowd filled in a bit when Trump spoke, but I still see a lot of empty seats.

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