Trump now claims 422,000 people turned out for his July 4 speech

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

President Donald Trump appears to be massaging the numbers over the size of the crowd at his July 4 celebration on the National Mall.

Over the weekend, Trump offered a shifting account of attendance at his “Salute to America 250” event, meant to commemorate the nation’s semi quincentennial, which was disrupted by severe weather.

“There’s no way we can be deterred,” the 80-year-old Republican said during his speech on Saturday evening, after a stormy forecast prompted officials to evacuate the Mall for over two hours. “They estimated they had 375,000 people before everybody had to leave and they now have 150,000 people. It’s the craziest thing anyone’s ever seen.”

By Sunday afternoon, the figure had grown.

“The Crowd at 7:05 in the evening was 422,000 people! All were forced to leave because of the weather, the event was cancelled, and everyone was gone because of lightning,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-now-claims-422-000-people-turned-out-for-his-july-4-speech/ar-AA27jIjF

His insecurity keeps getting high lighted.

[Peppertoo]

1. What was the actual crowd size estimate?

[efhmc]

2. The pedopres is a disgusting liar. How do you rate the "celebration"? I give it a 1 out 1000.

[efhmc]

3. Wow, does he ever hate the truth.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. yes 422 people, that's the number I counted

But the thousands were missing. Must be a delusion.

[RockRaven]

5. A crowd size estimated to three significant figures is an estimate not to be believed.

Even if it wasn't the biggest liar on earth saying it.

[dem4decades]

6. Greatest inauguration audience ever, greatest fair audience ever.

Vandals slit the reflecting pool, has he ever told the truth about anything?

[dalton99a]

7. 1.5 million people were there but the cameras couldn't show them

[MustLoveBeagles]

9. Lol

[snot]

10. This.

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I've looked hard for photos that might show a large crowd size and found nothing but close-ups and photos from other cities or years – nothing to verify anything like Trump's ever-increasing claims.

I can imagine that authorities did what they could to control the air space above the events, e.g. to exclude random drones; but given Trump's desire to tout his crowd size, and with all the planned military air vehicle demonstrations, it's hard to believe that Trump would not somehow have arranged photography of a large crowd size if it had in fact materialized.

[Blue Owl]

8. Doesn't Dr. Oz have a pill for crowd size enhancement?

I think Donny might have OD'd on them....

[Vinca]

11. Wait, no, it was really 4,422,000 and kept getting bigger!

[Brother Buzz]

12. This is what 422,000 looks like - Simon And Garfunkel reunion concert in Central Park

This is what the marmalade shartcannon’s crowd would look like if inserted into the same venue

[ultralite001]

13. I call bullsh*t...

TIA...