Donald Trump has spent many years really focused on how big his crowds are, so his friends are still trying to tell people that even when there aren’t many people showing up, it’s actually a huge crowd if you look really closely.
That effort didn’t work very well on Monday when co-host Mika Brzezinski saw a Fox News show defending the number of people at Trump’s Freedom 250 “Great American State Fair” event and just couldn’t help but react.
Trump said 45,000 people came to his speech at the event in Washington, D.C., even though many reports and pictures showed the crowd was much smaller.
News outlets guessed the crowd was around 1,000 people, and pictures showed that the people at the event filled only a small part of the area.
Still, Fox News reporter Kevin Corke tried to explain that people might not be seeing the full picture.
“Sometimes the pictures really don’t tell the full story because if you look behind us you see, okay there are a couple hundred people back there,” Corke said.
“But the truth is when you make your way over here and you’re in a wash of people.”
That’s when Mika lost it.
“Oh my God!” she said before laughing and saying, “OUCH!”
Corke said it seriously, but the camera didn’t lie.
As Corke tried to explain that there were many more people somewhere beyond the camera’s view, viewers could clearly see a big open field behind him that looked more like a county fair that forgot to promote itself than like a huge gathering.
Conservative writer Jonah Goldberg added the final punch.
“If only they had employees who knew how to use cameras that could take these pictures he describes,” Goldberg joked.
For years, Trump has treated crowd size the way Captain Ahab treated the white whale.
No matter what else is happening in the world, he always returns to proving that more people showed up for him than for anyone else.
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