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Trump Humiliated After His Bronx Rally Crowd Is Revealed, ‘All They Do Is Lie!’

It's hilarious, too.

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There is nothing that Donald Trump craves more than these two things — money and fame.

The first one is why he’s constantly grifting. The second one is why he’s constantly pretending that the crowds who show up to his rallies are, by his description, at least ten times bigger than they actually were.

At the beginning of his administration, it was clear he was going to tell a lot of lies, when he forced his then-Press Secretary Sean Spicer to publicly announce that his inauguration was the most-attended of all time.

That was embarrassing for him in short order, since there were pictures from the air released immediately showing the crowd from Barack Obama’s inauguration shown side-by-side with Trump’s, and Obama’s inauguration crowd DWARFED Trump’s.

He maintained the lie, and still insists it’s true.

Now, the same thing has happened with his recent claims about a rally in the Bronx. You know why he would lie about a rally in the Bronx, versus maybe one in San Francisco; he’s from New York.

Even his son came out the other day with claims that New Yorkers were “secretly” supporting his dad with hidden thumbs-up signs under their jackets (they were middle fingers).

New York is very important to the Trump family.

“Trump vows to ‘save’ deep-blue New York City in massive, historic Bronx rally,” Fox News reported on Thursday. “25,000 supporters of the former president descended on Crotona Park, Trump’s campaign said.”

The AP had a relatively neutral take.

“Former President Donald Trump campaigned Thursday in one of the most Democratic counties in the nation, holding a rally in the South Bronx as he tries to woo minority voters days before a Manhattan jury will begin deliberations on whether to convict him of felony charges in his criminal hush money trial.”

The local ABC affiliate was slightly less kind in their reporting.

“Donald Trump can now say he held a rally in the South Bronx, home to immigrants and minority communities, and that it was well attended. It’s just not clear that the people who attended were from the Bronx. The campaign controlled who got in and the campaign of course, picked only supporters. Trump’s motorcade arrived in Crotona Park tonight. The crowd surged to get a look at him, more like a pop star than a politician. Not everyone wants a pop star for President.”

One person in the park that day told the ABC reporter that “[Trump is] a big fat bigot. And he just doesn’t have any love in his heart, for anyone, anyone of color. Anyone who’s in the LGBTQ plus community.”

And then came the aerial picture, which belied the campaign’s claims of an attendance of 25,000 people. Number one, you’d have to be in Central Park to even fit 25,000 people within its confines. But number two, the Bronx is one of the MOST liberal areas in New York.

Pictured: Nowhere NEAR 25,000 people.

Another person who was there remarked on the fact that all of the cars in the vicinity seemed to have out-of-state plates. “Go out there and look at all them cars that are parked and check where they came from? Tennessee, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Texas.”

Congressman Ritchie Torres, a Democrat from New York, summed it up quite well:

People on social media had a field day:

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