Jimmy Kimmel says Donald Trump’s latest boast fails the evidence test.
The former president said “tens of thousands” would show up to his weekend rally in Waco, Texas, and said it could be his biggest event ever.
“The number of tickets that have gone, I think it’s unprecedented, I think it’s the biggest we’ve had — and we’ve had 100,000 people at rallies,” Trump told Newsmax the other day
Photos from the event tell a different story, as Kimmel pointed out.
“The Waco venue holds 50,000 people. You can see from this aerial view that the crowd was about 47,000. I don’t know,” he said. “The annual Waco Sausage Show gets more people than this event.”
Check out rehearsals of Kimmel’s Monday night monologue and decide for yourself:
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A Daily Mail reporter on the plane with Trump took an aerial photo of the crowd awaiting the former president’s arrival, and it shows a slightly larger crowd, but not by much:
