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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Mon Feb 27, 2017, 04:16 PM Feb 2017

Monday pro-Trump rallies a massive flop as event photos show tiny crowds

BRAD REED
27 FEB 2017 AT 15:07 ET

President Donald Trump last week called on his supporters to hold massive rallies on his behalf, and on Monday some of them did their best to meet his demands.




However, although Trump predicted that pro-Trump rallies would be the “biggest of them all,” photos from around the country show sparsely attended events that at most show a couple hundred people in a given location.

Toronto Star reporter Daniel Dale posted some photos that he’s seen around Twitter that show tiny crowds at assorted Trump rallies. Dale notes that pro-Trump news website Breitbart predicted the events would be “massive.”







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Monday pro-Trump rallies a massive flop as event photos show tiny crowds (Original Post) DonViejo Feb 2017 OP
Fake News!! Else You Are Mad Feb 2017 #1
Actual lawn chairs underpants Feb 2017 #2
I think his 38% approval is slightly hyped. Ilsa Feb 2017 #3
Right. Worried but stubborn, too early to give in. My guess Hortensis Feb 2017 #8
SAD! workinclasszero Feb 2017 #4
Apparently, the "massive" rallies are this Saturday: Leghorn21 Feb 2017 #5
The failing @nytimes isn't reporting the huge crowds at my rallies! Fake news! Sad! Initech Feb 2017 #6
I mean, THAT'S something you want to advertise . . . . HughBeaumont Feb 2017 #7
this nt heaven05 Feb 2017 #9
Largest rally EVER held in support of a sitting President. 11 Bravo Feb 2017 #10
Yuuge crowds! Tremendous! Largest gathering in the history of the world! Solly Mack Feb 2017 #11

Else You Are Mad

(3,040 posts)
1. Fake News!!
Mon Feb 27, 2017, 04:25 PM
Feb 2017

Those are just bad angles! If the camera person turned around, it would have been obvious that the rallies were 6 blocks deep!!

Ilsa

(61,694 posts)
3. I think his 38% approval is slightly hyped.
Mon Feb 27, 2017, 04:34 PM
Feb 2017

I bet his real support number hovers around 35%. His following is disillusioned. They may not publicly say they were fooled, but they aren't going to openly support him like they did before.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
8. Right. Worried but stubborn, too early to give in. My guess
Mon Feb 27, 2017, 05:13 PM
Feb 2017

is his true genuine approval might already be dipping toward the 20s but that most others will support officially, the way they did W. After all, we didn't believe they would vote for The Donald as they did W (disillusioning in itself), but they did.

Leghorn21

(13,524 posts)
5. Apparently, the "massive" rallies are this Saturday:
Mon Feb 27, 2017, 04:42 PM
Feb 2017

March info website:
https://www.march4trump.com/local-marches/

Some edited tweets from Feb. 16:

StrongWomenLoveTrump
@mcgilh
Feb 16
MARCH 4 TRUMP WASHINGTON D.C. GoFundMegofundme.com/march4trumpdc


@March4Trump
Feb 16
I'm raising money for MARCH 4 TRUMP WASHINGTON D.C. . Click to Donate: gofund.me/March4TrumpDC?… via @gofundme


Proud Patriot
@Texas2Love
Feb 16
March 4 Trump Austin, TX gofundme.com/March4TrumpAus…
 
From twitter acct:
https://mobile.twitter.com/hashtag/March4Trump?src=hash

***This just in!! World famose singer Joy Villa (yes, she'll be wearing her world famose TrumpDress)
will deliver keynote address!:

WhatWhat7
@OpinionOnion7

🚨SINGER @Joy_Villa WILL BE KEYNOTE SPEAKER AT #March4Trump DC🚨 JOIN US TO CELEBRATE OUR @POTUS #TRUMPTRAIN! #MAGA🇺🇸 👉march4trump.com pic.twitter.com/0lx7FRAJDj
10:35 AM - 27 Feb 2017

HughBeaumont

(24,461 posts)
7. I mean, THAT'S something you want to advertise . . . .
Mon Feb 27, 2017, 04:57 PM
Feb 2017

. . . that you voted for pretty much the WORST presidential candidate in American History,

. . . that you, a poor person pretending to be rich, voted for a billionaire labor stiffer because you think he's on YOUR side ,

. . . that you voted for an admitted serial sexual assaulter,

. . . that you voted for a candidate whose campaign had documented ties to Vladimir Putin, at the least a violation of the Logan Act,

. . . that you voted for what you thought was "an outsider who was going to shake things up", but ends up installing a cabinet full of millionaires and billionaires with very little (if any) governmental experience, white nationalists and oil/bank/mineral CEOs,

. . . that you thought all of this was an astounding idea . . . . because "I believe in my heart he's going to get the job done!"

IDIOTS.

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