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Trump Bragged He Had ‘Great Crowds!’ at Michigan Speech — Guess How Many Actually Showed Up?

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When Trump showed up in Michigan to speak to striking auto workers, everyone already knew what he was going to say. He planned to include the boogeyman of electric cars as a danger to jobs. He would tell the workers they’d never get what they wanted.

But the other thing we all knew was that afterward, he’d lie about the whole thing.

The psychology of why Trump lies about his crowds is pretty easy to examine. It’s not just that he’s so used to lying — although that’s definitely a factor. It’s that he actually needs for people to believe he’s far more popular than he knows he actually is.

You recall the inauguration in 2017. He seriously sent Sean Spicer to a podium to tell America it was the biggest inauguration crowd ever recorded in the United States.

Not only was it nowhere near that, but it took literally just moments before people posted pictures to social media of Trump’s and Obama’s inauguration crowds next to each other, from the same angle and everything. You know what that showed.

Despite all that, he STILL insisted on the lie, because he needs it. And that’s what he needed in Michigan, as well.

According to the Detroit News, many of those in attendance were actually hired to come and hold signs identifying them as union members and Trump supporters.

When the newspaper interviewed one of the attendees with a sign that read “Union Members For Trump,” she admitted to them that she was not a member of the union. Another man holding a sign that read “Auto Workers For Trump” confessed to the news outlet that he was not, in fact, an auto worker.

“Your current negotiations don’t mean as much as you think,” Trump said to the crowd, as he predictably warned against electric cars. He either still erroneously believes that all electric cars will be built in China, or is continuing to push that lie, even after having been told that Biden incentivized building them in America with a massive tax credit.

But the biggest lie of the night was definitely who was in attendance. Even the privately-owned business where Trump held his rally does not employ union members. Estimates say that there were roughly 400-500 people in attendance, of that about 150 people worked at Drake Enterprises, the non-unionized auto parts supplier where Trump gave his speech. How many of them were plants? And is this really what one calls a “great crowd”?

I mean come on…this is just sad:

And people on Twitter were quick to call Trump out:

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