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BumRushDaShow

(143,118 posts)
Mon Nov 4, 2024, 03:10 PM Nov 4

As Trump brags "every rally is full," cameraman pans over empty arena

Source: Salon

Published November 4, 2024 11:15AM (EST)


Former President Donald Trump got called out mid-boast on Saturday as he claimed his rallies are always full, right before a cameraman panned to a number of empty seats across the stadium.

“We have had the biggest rallies in the history of any country, and every rally is full. You do not have any seats that are empty. You did not have anything,” Trump told the crowd in Greensboro, North Carolina.

An NTD.com cameraman then zoomed in on sections of empty seats as people left the already sparsely populated stadium. The video quickly went viral and was reposted by the Harris-Walz X account: “Trump: ‘Every rally is full. You do not have any seats that are empty,'" the post reads. "Cameraperson: Hold my beer."

Crowd size has long been a fixation for Trump. He's repeatedly bragged about how big his rallies are compared to those of Vice President Kamala Harris and even falsely claimed that she used AI to generate images of a massive crowd at one of her campaign stops.

Read more: https://www.salon.com/2024/11/04/as-brags-every-rally-is-full-cameraman-pans-over-empty-arena/?in_brief=true






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Trump: “Every rally is full. You don’t have any seats that are empty”

Cameraperson: Hold my beer
3:00 PM · Nov 3, 2024
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As Trump brags "every rally is full," cameraman pans over empty arena (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Nov 4 OP
Expert level trolling by the camera operator. love_katz Nov 4 #1
NYT has noticed central scrutinizer Nov 4 #2
Everyone look at the Emperor's crowd and tell him how full and wonderful it is Blue Owl Nov 4 #3
I don't bdamomma Nov 4 #4
Yep! Mud on the orange face! Aussie105 Nov 4 #5
So Trump is blind...... SergeStorms Nov 4 #6
A little disingenuous on his part and on the cameraperson FBaggins Nov 4 #7
Cameraman or camerawoman panned around to the empty seats just as he bragged, colorado_ufo Nov 4 #8
Full of Idiots rpannier Nov 5 #9
That camera person markodochartaigh Nov 5 #10

Aussie105

(6,337 posts)
5. Yep! Mud on the orange face!
Mon Nov 4, 2024, 05:10 PM
Nov 4

And no one takes responsibility.

Trump: I'm just reading the teleprompter.

Organisers: Someone stuffed up! The 20,000 human size cardboard cutouts we ordered didn't show up in time!

Camera operator: Was my camera recording? Seriously, it was having a problem with zoom focus, and I was just panning long shots to see what the problem was! Really! Seriously!

Trump doubles down: I can see things mere mortals can't! I'm sure I saw Hannibal Lecter up in the high seats!

SergeStorms

(19,312 posts)
6. So Trump is blind......
Mon Nov 4, 2024, 05:13 PM
Nov 4

as well as deaf and dumb.

No offense meant to those visually or hearing impaired. Trump's disabilities are willful, not congenital.

FBaggins

(27,752 posts)
7. A little disingenuous on his part and on the cameraperson
Mon Nov 4, 2024, 05:39 PM
Nov 4

That's the old Greensboro Coliseum. It can seat a bit over 20,000 people ( I think the largest indoor arena in the state) - and there's no way that he's going to fill it.

But it was configured for about 8,000 people, and that's about how many people they had. The areas behind the press risers and the entire upper deck were closed off. Two sections behind the giant flag were empty as well

So yeah... he filled it... and also didn't come close... all depending on who is doing the counting and how they define full.

And - as we learned with his real estate valuations - when he's doing the counting it's always whatever works best for him.

On edit - And in other news - all of their statewide candidates were there except Robinson - who didn't even appear on their sample ballot handouts. He's entirely on his own.

colorado_ufo

(5,934 posts)
8. Cameraman or camerawoman panned around to the empty seats just as he bragged,
Mon Nov 4, 2024, 06:36 PM
Nov 4

"We could have filled this arena 20 times over!"

markodochartaigh

(2,184 posts)
10. That camera person
Tue Nov 5, 2024, 02:21 AM
Nov 5

needs to give classes on fact checking to all of the media bobble heads who haven't been able to fact check Trump for the past 9 years.

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