Trump claimed via a press conference and social media that he personally “overturned” a recommendation to cancel his July 4th event on the National Mall due to approaching storms.
By Zack Linly
Black America Web
https://blackamericaweb.com/
Look, we all know that President Donald Trump’s Freedom 250 festival has turned out to be the flop that keeps on flopping, with low turnouts, shoddy construction, and MAGA ideology gone wild, which is why it couldn’t book any major acts, or even acts that might have been considered to be major 20 to 40 years ago. We also know Trump is obsessed with crowd sizes — to the point where, in his delusional mind, he’s even in competition with Martin Luther King Jr. in that regard — so one can only imagine how he’s been coping with his events being ghost towns compared to the crowd sizes his administration predicts he will draw.
Actually, we know how he’s coping. It’s the same way he copes with everything else: he just lies about it.
During the press conference, Trump claimed, “They estimated they had 375,000 people before everybody had to leave, and they now have 150,000 people.” On Truth Social, that 375,000 figure grew to “422,000” people, which, even if true, fell short of the half million the administration projected would attend. According to the Washington Post, none of Trump’s numbers have been independently verified, nor can they be sourced to any media outlet, which more than likely means the president is, as usual, getting his numbers from the fine statisticians at TrustMeBro@Trump’sHindParts.com.
Also, photo and video evidence says that even his claim that 150,000 return visitors were in attendance was likely a stretch.
And, again, this has been the case since Trump’s Freedom 250 fiasco began.
Also, it’s worth noting that while none of Trump’s figures could be verified, Anthony Guglielmi, a spokesperson for the U.S. Secret Service, seemed to imply that the event began with “more than 100,000 people,” not 375,000 or 422,000.
