Estimates of Trump rally crowd size ‘absurd’

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Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) called estimates of tens of thousands of people attending former President Trump’s campaign rallies “absurd.”

Fox News’s Shannon Bream asked Christie on “Fox News Sunday” to weigh in on local authorities in South Carolina estimating that one of Trump’s recent rallies there had been attended by around 50,000 people, which Christie labeled “absurd.” He said that Trump’s rallies are meant to serve Trump, not the American people.

“50,000 is absurd,” Christie told Bream. “But I am not going to get in an argument about that. Here’s why he doesn’t care about the American people. He droned on for an hour and a half yesterday in Iowa.”

 

“He lied about the farm deal with the Chinese,” Christie continued. “They haven’t even complied with a quarter of what they agreed to Donald Trump to do in terms of buying soybeans and other things from the farmers in Iowa. And he spent the rest of the time talking about his own indictment. This is not somebody who’s fighting for the American people and their future. This is all about his ego.”

 

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[candide]

Well, a real news would be Trump saying something which is not absurd!

[gargamon]

Trump always portrays stuff as much larger than it really is.

 

Ask Stormy Daniels. 

 

And he's got such small hands. 

Edited July 10, 2023 by gargamon

[KhunLA]

Christie might be able to draw a crowd of 100, maybe 10 of his staff & family  ????

[Chomper Higgot]

1 hour ago, KhunLA said:

Christie might be able to draw a crowd of 100, maybe 10 of his staff & family  ????

Regardless, it’s not Christie absurdly lying about crowd sizes.

[Paul Henry]

10 thinking people are better than 10,000 vacuums or echo  chambers.

[Andycoops]

You have to remember this was the guy who said he had the biggest inauguration rally ever, which was shown to be utter excrement when the real picture was shown comparing the Orange Blobs with Obama.

The guy is a complete liar and conman, I also note he doesn't tell anyone anymore about how rich he is ????????????

[spidermike007]

Trump seems to have a deep seated, pathological fear of the truth. You know if he says it, it is false, exaggerated, or just plain made up nonsense. That is just how the man rolls. It is his M.O. Always has been. Always will be.

[BritManToo]

Just now, spidermike007 said:

Trump seems to have a deep seated, pathological fear of the truth. You know if he says it, it is false, exaggerated, or just plain made up nonsense. That is just how the man rolls. It is his M.O. Always has been. Always will be.

Name a politician that's different?

[HappyExpat57]

42 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Name a politician that's different?

The former guy is in a whole species unto himself. I'm not even sure if it's a subset of human. All politicians stretch the truth, but 45 is a blatant, pathological liar. Every one of his attorneys who has ever been asked if 45 should take the stand to testify about ANYTHING has vehemently shaken his/her head and said 45 wouldn't know the truth if it fell out of the sky, landed on his face, and started to wiggle.

(I made that last part up but it works here)

[Red Forever]

52 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Name a politician that's different?

Ah the old "they're all the same" defence which is being rolled out by the dwindling number of Tory apologists as they see, one by one, their flag waving patriots drummed out of Parliament for sleaze, lying, cronyism, bullying and assault.

No. They (cross party MPs in UK anyway) are different.

[Skeptic7]

1 hour ago, BritManToo said:

Name a politician that's different?

Every other one...ever. Trump is unique...one-of-a-kind...when it comes to lies, exaggeration, bloviating and shear absurdity. He's #1 and in a league ALL his own. 

Edited July 11, 2023 by Skeptic7

[RichardColeman]

Funny that they are criticizing Trump crowds whilst completely ignoring Biden is once again getting ready to hide in his bunker and refuses to do crowd events like Trump or even take questions  - once again just one sided media , doing the one sided media thing.

 

 

[thailand49]

As Trump noted to Marco size isn't or has never been his problem. 

It tremendous!

[earlinclaifornia]

I love that Republicans are going to lose with a candidate that has no chance of winning. They have this man who is capable of leadership but won't use that to turn themselves into a sure win. Please explain the plan they have?

[Bangkok Barry]

2 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Name a politician that's different?

I didn't write this, but as a Brit man too I agree with every word:

Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?" 
Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England, wrote this magnificent response:
"A few things spring to mind.
Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem.
For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace - all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.
So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing - not once, ever.
I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility - for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.
But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is - his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.
Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.
And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults - he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.
There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface.
Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront.
Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul.
And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist.
Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that.
He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat.
He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully.
That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead.
There are unspoken rules to this stuff - the Queensberry rules of basic decency - and he breaks them all. He punches downwards - which a gentleman should, would, could never do - and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless - and he kicks them when they are down.
So the fact that a significant minority - perhaps a third - of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
* Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.
* You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.
After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of <deleted>. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.
God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid.
He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart.
In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws - he would make a Trump.
And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish:
'My God… what… have… I… created?
If being a <deleted> was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set."
 

[rudi49jr]

1 hour ago, RichardColeman said:

Funny that they are criticizing Trump crowds whilst completely ignoring Biden is once again getting ready to hide in his bunker and refuses to do crowd events like Trump or even take questions  - once again just one sided media , doing the one sided media thing.

 

 

This is not about Biden, is it? Jeez. Reminds me of the old Republican mantra of a few years ago: ‘but, but, but, Hillary’.

 

This is about Trump and his tendency to hugely exaggerate everything that he does, sees or owns, as long as the exaggeration is in his favor. 

[Tropposurfer]

2 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Name a politician that's different?

There are actually plenty who don't pathologically lie like the traitor Trump.

Granted politicians are an odd breed who play lightly with the truth but this sociopath is in another league of dangerous inept catastrophic and cancerous. 

[Tropposurfer]

1 hour ago, RichardColeman said:

Funny that they are criticizing Trump crowds whilst completely ignoring Biden is once again getting ready to hide in his bunker and refuses to do crowd events like Trump or even take questions  - once again just one sided media , doing the one sided media thing.

 

 

Ahh ...MAGA much buddy? ... Time for you to get back to watching OAN Fox or Steve Bannon me thinks.

[Bangkok Barry]

Remember, it wasn't so long ago that Trump was calling the leaders of Russia and North Korea his new best friends. They knew they were dealing with someone with the understanding of a five year old, humoured him and then when he left the room ignored everything he said and any 'breakthrough agreements' he thought they had made.

[scottiejohn]

Just now, Bangkok Barry said:

Remember, it wasn't so long ago that Trump was calling the leaders of Russia and North Korea his new best friends. They knew they were dealing with someone with the understanding of a five year old, humoured him and then when he left the room ignored everything he said and any 'breakthrough agreements' he thought they had made.

And they are hoping to hell he will come back into power and give them what they want while he screws the rest of the world just to feed his ego!

 

 

 

 

Edited July 11, 2023 by scottiejohn

[spidermike007]

3 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Name a politician that's different?

Oh, please. Trump has re-defined what a lack of integrity means. Some politicians speak truth occasionally. Some make promises and keep them. Not Trump. He has never spoken truth. 

[novacova]

3 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Trump seems to have a deep seated, pathological fear of the truth. You know if he says it, it is false, exaggerated, or just plain made up nonsense. That is just how the man rolls. It is his M.O. Always has been. Always will be.

It’s the same with anyone with an opposing ideological view of one or the other. It’s a useless circular argument with no means or ends. Just the same old divisive useless rhetoric 

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3 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Funny that they are criticizing Trump crowds whilst completely ignoring Biden is once again getting ready to hide in his bunker and refuses to do crowd events like Trump or even take questions  - once again just one sided media , doing the one sided media thing.

 

 

They're not criticizing Trump's crowds. We criticizing the size of the crowds that's been claimed. Do you see the difference?

[Hanaguma]

1 hour ago, Bangkok Barry said:

Remember, it wasn't so long ago that Trump was calling the leaders of Russia and North Korea his new best friends. They knew they were dealing with someone with the understanding of a five year old, humoured him and then when he left the room ignored everything he said and any 'breakthrough agreements' he thought they had made.

...and you....believed him? The man of 30,000 lies took those two occasions to tell the truth? Seems like a convenient truth to me...

[Chomper Higgot]

24 minutes ago, Hanaguma said:

...and you....believed him? The man of 30,000 lies took those two occasions to tell the truth? Seems like a convenient truth to me...

Seems to me like you find it more of an uncomfortable truth.

[Tug]

18 minutes ago, Hanaguma said:

...and you....believed him? The man of 30,000 lies took those two occasions to tell the truth? Seems like a convenient truth to me...

Who can forget trump and helinsky were Trump threw America under the bus when attempting to kiss the enemy Putin’s rear end?oh well trump is definitely the king of lies 

[Bangkok Barry]

32 minutes ago, Hanaguma said:

...and you....believed him? The man of 30,000 lies took those two occasions to tell the truth? Seems like a convenient truth to me...

Of course I didn't believe him. Did anyone, apart from his blind supporters?

[Jingthing]

4 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Funny that they are criticizing Trump crowds whilst completely ignoring Biden is once again getting ready to hide in his bunker and refuses to do crowd events like Trump or even take questions  - once again just one sided media , doing the one sided media thing.

 

 

I wasn't aware that doing hysterical Mussolini style cult rallies was a requirement for running for president of the United States.

[Hanaguma]

51 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Seems to me like you find it more of an uncomfortable truth.

Nope, it might be possible. But how can you believe a man of 30,000 lies?