Recently released video footage appears to show dozens of empty seats toward the end of former President 's Wednesday speech at a Long Island Campaign rally. The 16,000-seat Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum was of the rally, with thousands more in the overflow area outside, watching the event on large screens. But X user @19joho posted three clips on Wednesday, each showing many empty seats at three different parts of Trump's 84-minute speech.
Trump frequently mentions crowd sizes of his rallies, whether in his speeches or in posts on Truth Social. During the debate on September 10, Vice President that people were "leaving his rallies early out of exhaustion and boredom." To which Trump replied "People don't leave my rallies.
We have the biggest rallies, the most incredible rallies in the history of politics." has contacted Trump's campaign for comment outside of regular office hours. , which according to what Trump is saying corresponds to the 28 minute of his speech, shows a largely full house but with some empty seats along the top sections.
A bit clearer Another opens with Trump saying, "make your product in America, and only in America," which corresponds, according to a YouTube video of the speech, to the 74 minute. It pans along the top seating section of the area, showing many empty seats in some of the top sections. The , from six minutes later in the speech, appears to show even more empty seats along the top, and some sections almost entirely empty.
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