Apparently the photo Trump used was real, which sucks

[johnnyplankton]

I was so hoping that Shitler's gang used a doctored photo, but we're better off leading truth-based lives or we'll be as bad as the MAGAts. Apparently it was real, according to Snopes. He did enough evil/dumb shit (just by turning it into a paramilitary event instead of a celebration of our country), but we don't have to spread lies. That's Faux Nooze and right-wing radio's job....

Source: Snopes

On July 4, 2019, U.S. President Donald Trump posted a photograph supposedly showing a “great crowd of tremendous Patriots” on the National Mall before his speech at the “Salute to America” event: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

This picture garnered thousands of retweets and more than a hundred thousand likes. It also sparked a number of comments from people accusing Trump of sharing a picture that had been digitally altered in order to make the crowd appear bigger.

But the picture that Trump shared of the crowd is real. Photographer Susan Walsh took a very similar image that is available via Getty Images with the caption: “US President Donald Trump speaks during the ‘Salute to America’ Fourth of July event at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, July 4, 2019.”

Read more: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/crowd-at-trump-july-4-event/
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[AJT]

1. We live in a bubble. There are many millions of people who support him and his views.

[dustyscamp]

12. We shouldn't try to deny this

[dhill926]

2. a lot of people go to this event and always have....

doubt if they were all trump supporters...

[Kingofalldems]

3. Interesting post.

Many thousands go to DC every year for the fireworks. So you might want to reevaluate. Don't know why you posted this.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Some of those people - a lot of them, probably - would have been there anyhow

to see the fireworks display that happens every year. How many were there only because of Trump?

[Takket]

8. correct.......

there is a whole list of annual events for the fourth and this was no different, save the "salute to drumpf" one hour show put on to honor him slipped in between everything else.

[MFM008]

5. Maggot took something

That has a built in attendance.
Inserted his ugly fat maggoty ass in the middle of it
So everything was sucked into his orbit.
MAGATs and non magats alike.

[spooky3]

6. That photo shows only a few hundred people. As others have said

tens of thousands attend the celebration annually, even in bad weather. So, the photo does nothing to show whether attendance was better, the same as, or worse than, typical.

[JI7]

7. it was fucking 4th of july. many people turn out anyways for that

it's not about him. it's about the celebrations that always takes place.

[Raine]

9. The majority are just ordinary people celebrating the 4th

not MAGAs celebrating him!

[ChoppinBroccoli]

10. I Heard That The FRONT Of The Picture Was Real.........

...........but the BACK of the picture was filled in with a photo from a concert that was held on the mall previously.

[pansypoo53219]

14. close up shot i of his crowd. not impressed. bet it looks worse from a distance.

[Mc Mike]

15. People here posted links, in real time, showing the Wash Monument and Mall cameras

were shut down, there is no chance that snopes can gainsay that fact legitimately.

Wonder why the cameras were shut down.