Donald Trump’s latest boast about his crowd size fell apart in a hurry as he was fact-checked in real-time while he was still speaking.

“We do a lot of these beautiful rallies, and it’s so great,” the former president said in Reading, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday. “We never have an empty seat, never have, look at it.”

Just one problem: While the sections closest to the stage were packed with MAGA faithful, there were plenty of empty seats toward the back of the venue ― and observers began sharing images of them on social media almost immediately.

An Associated Press photo also shows some of the empty seats…


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  • MrPoopbutt@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    It is twitter.

    Elon can say “these are no longer cars, they’re now called Gloobpeepoops” but that doesn’t make it so. He is not the king of words.

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      14 hours ago

      Twitter is to X as Anikin Skywalker is to Darth Vader.

      I’m glad musk made one of the dumbest businesses decisions in modern history to change the name. It’s easy to see the line where Twitter once was a place of free speech and now X is a place of right wing propaganda.

      The name shouldn’t be protested. The company should be boycotted.