Donald Trump spoke to rows of empty seats on Friday during his “big rally” in Mobile, Alabama. MS Now’s Jen Psaki noted that the venue, not even half full, holds 10,000 people. “For context,” she added, “when Trump kicked off his presidential campaign in 2015, he was able to fill an arena three times that size in the exact same city.”
The Daily Beast reported that Trump ironically began his address by bragging that he could not find a Mobile venue big enough for all his supporters at that same 2015 event.
Trump also reportedly claimed that he was in Mobile “to say hello. I love you,” and that he was really there “as a sign of respect.”
Translation: Trump knows Republican control of Congress is in serious jeopardy; he can only rally for his party in the reddest of red states. As if to put a fine point on it, he reiterated his bribe of $5,000 if Republicans retain their Congressional majority, The Daily Beast also said.
This latest promise would almost certainly land in your wallet in the same place as the $5,000 “DOGE dividend”: nowhere. But even if Trump wasn’t notorious for stiffing people, he has to know that it is very unlikely his voter bribe chit will ever be called in.
Psaki called the half-filled Mobile arena “a visual representation of his political decline.”
She’s not wrong.
