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[–] [email protected] 102 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So the Trump campaign is going to be using AI to falsify crowd sizes soon. Got it.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago

they probably already are, and they're still getting played by reality and facts.

[–] [email protected] 97 points 1 month ago (3 children)

He's really hurting in his ego about his lack of crowds, isn't he?

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It’s incredible that crowd size is still such a touchy subject for him. It was the first lie that he had Sean Spicer tell, and it’s still a soft spot of his to this day. Gotta keep the Kamala fever up!

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't think it's incredible at all. As a narcissist there are few things he values more than people liking him, and crowd size is (to him) the most direct representation or measure of it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Liking him is secondary to paying attention to him, but yeah.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Poor little Donny. It's not the size that counts dude, it's the adulation of the crowd that you can muster.

[–] Lucidlethargy 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

He literally always is (any time it comes to his attention), and figuratively always has.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 month ago

"Trump says" news stories are illegitimate journalism.

Not even trump believes what he says. If someone isn't aware of that by now, let them read the "Trump says" stories.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Insecure about crowd size in 2016, 2020, and 2024. With all the sexual harassment and rape accusations I was convinced he was eqipped with both dick and balls, but I'm not so sure anymore seeing as he's an insecure manlet.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He does, but he's very insecure about the size of that too (and probably the shape)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Didn't Stormy say even his dick was weird?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Looked like a Mario character.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

He had to have one at some point, to have his ugly kids.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

He certainly doesn't have balls.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

[off topic]

My favorite crowd size story. Back in 2008 Obama did a tour of Germany before the Democratic convention. It was held in an open park and 200,000 Germans showed up. After he won the nomination, Obama delivered his acceptance speech at a 60,000 seat stadium.

I remember a Right news source saying that Obama was losing steam because he'd managed to get 200,000 a few weeks ago and only had 60,000 at this speech.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Stuff like this has a real 'whistling past the graveyard' quality to it.

I'm sure it's catnip to his base, but man, does it ever have the possibility of coming back to haunt him if she keeps building momentum at this rate.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

When have any of his lies ever come back to haunt him?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Every accusation is an admission. This tells me trump is trying to use AI to make his crowds look fuller

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

he pays actor to fill bleachers behind him and his crowds have been leaving early for a while now. This is probably something he brainstormed himself.

If he still had two brain cells to rub together he'd realize everyone in the audience has a cell phone

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You know if you just stop repeating his lies, that's where it stops, right journalists?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Exactly! Its chicken shit reporting like this that helped him dominate the news cycle.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Uhm.

I mean I get the power of AI, but dang yo, that's a bit of a stretch.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Haha. He’s such a little bitch. Seriously, he’s got the thinnest skin of any human being ever.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I hope that in response to this people will flood his social media site with videos from inside the events!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Wouldn't be the first time they used the paid actors conspiracy

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

We ought to listen to him. He knows a lot about exaggerating size.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

He's had news media using AI to make his hands look normal size for years

[–] brown567 5 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Projection. Again.