Trump places Nashville rally crowd size above arena capacity, disputes reports

[Arkansas Granny]

President Donald Trump is touting the size of the crowd at his rally in Nashville Tuesday evening, a day after suggesting the audience was larger than the building allows.

On Wednesday morning Trump said on Twitter that the New York Times estimates about the size of the crowd inside Municipal Auditorium were wrong.

The newspaper reported the crowd to be about 1,000. The article was later updated to reflect the actual size of the crowd, which officials said contained 5,500 people.

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Despite officials' estimates, the Trump campaign double-down Wednesday afternoon saying there were 8,000 people at the rally.

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/tn-elections/2018/05/30/trump-nashville-rally-crowd-size-above-arena-capacity-new-york-times-reports/655630002/

I'm to the point that if Trump told the truth about something, anything, I would be mightily surprised. He's one of those people who would rather lie when they would be better served by the truth.

[Cyrano]

1. White sheets and hoods make accurate count difficult

[Arkansas Granny]

2. lol

[genxlib]

3. In fairness

His original complaint was about a report of 1000 people which he claimed to be several times that number. Later the report was updated to over 5000. So technically he was right. ( I think I threw up a little in my mouth)

He is often obsessed with these stupid crowd numbers but who really gives a shit. Any number of screaming idiots is too many.

[Thomas Hurt]

4. It would be nice if someone could get some pics from way up in the seats....

but trying would just get you tackled and/or shot.

They probably would let the press get a get pic of the real numbers anyway though.+

[oberliner]

5. Here is what the NY Times reporter tweeted in response

Link to tweet

[Arkansas Granny]

6. And it appears that Trump inflated the figure to 8,000.

[0rganism]

7. any admission of error by press or pundit is like giving him a gigantic "Get Out of Lying Free" card

the second someone in the "Fake News" business admits fault, Trump is free to say whatever the fuck he wants about the topic. hell, he probably could have pushed it to 18000 without shaking his followers' suspension of disbelief.

[left-of-center2012]

8. I saw video on C-SPAN

Hundreds if not thousands of empty seats,
and the commentator said people got up and left during his speech ~
apparently having heard it all before.