Trump Spirals Over Crowd Size After Delivering Speech to Empty Seats 67.9%
The Daily Beast - By Erkki Forster - 7/6/2026, 12:03 AM
Negativity Bias 24.7% - Unattributed Quote 18.9% - Biased Writer Voice 16.7%
President Donald Trump launched into a rambling defense of the turnout for his speech marking America’s 250th anniversary after videos showed rows of empty seats. The crowd-size-obsessed president dwelled on the attendance in a Truth Social post on Sunday, a day after videos from the start of his Saturday speech on the National Mall... more