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[chadskin]

Donald Trump was in a bad mood before he emerged for a confrontational speech in Arizona last week.

TV and social media coverage showed that the site of his campaign rally, the Phoenix Convention Center, was less than full. Backstage, waiting in a room with a television monitor, Trump was displeased, one person familiar with the incident said: TV optics and crowd sizes are extremely important to the president.

As his surrogates warmed up the audience, the expanse of shiny concrete eventually filled in with cheering Trump fans. But it was too late for a longtime Trump aide, George Gigicos, the former White House director of advance who had organized the event as a contractor to the Republican National Committee. Trump later had his top security aide, Keith Schiller, inform Gigicos that he’d never manage a Trump rally again, according to three people familiar with the matter.

Gigicos, one of the four longest-serving political aides to the president, declined to comment.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...nish-longtime-aide-after-angry-phoenix-speech

 

[Kahoona]

It's never his fault...always someone else's.

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

The biggest crowds...or else...

 

[Jeels]

No wonder he kept talking about crowd sizes. He felt insecure. Little baby.

 

[Lord Fagan]

Gigicos, one of the four longest-serving political aides to the president, declined to comment.

Man, these people are masochists.

 

[MIMIC]

The biggest crowds...or else...

This is cracking me up xD

 

[Gordon Shumway]

Parents. Don't spoil your kids. Don't give them everything..especially if you're wealthy.

 

[fluffydelusions]

 

[boredandlazy]

Man, these people are masochists.

It's only been 3 weeks.

 

[Aselith]

 

[Kaban]

Didn't he make some sort of comment about how he didn't want the cameras to show the room? I'm looking through the transcript but can't find anything.

 

[zero_suit]

The biggest crowds...or else...

We'll see a lot more articles like this then....

 

[Beartruck]

I hope eventually its just him yelling at an empty stadium.

 

[UberTag]

Such loyalty shown from the President to one of his long-standing subordinates once again.

 

[Aselith]

Didn't he make some sort of comment about how he didn't want the cameras to show the room? I'm looking through the transcript but can't find anything.

I think he said the media didn't want to show the room because of the bigly crowds

 

[Netherscourge]

More protestors than Pro-Trump morons should be the norm for Trump.

 

[the anime man]

"You're fired!"

 

[mreddie]

LOL Wow, petty as fuck.

 

[RPGCrazied]

But of course, he is that petty. Just like when he made Spicer come out the day after the inauguration to lie about his crowd sizes.

 

[Marvie_3]

What a fuckin baby

 

[RootCause]

Fragile ego.

 

[SaviourMK2]

Why are we supposed to care?

 

[Aselith]

Why are we supposed to care?

You don't need to. You can just let this one...pass on by, unremarked.

 

[mnannola]

Nazi sympathizers? No big deal.

Collude with Russia? Everyone does it.

Unable to fill a rally up? You're fired.

 

[Cowlick]

Wait, but you said...

http://time.com/4912055/donald-trump-phoenix-arizona-transcript/

 

[cakely]

Tiny hands, tiny crowds.

- OR -

President snowflake has an incredibly fragile ego.

 

[Confusion Illusion]

Sorry Trump, you'll never draw crowds like Obama did.

 

[Fury451]

L

O

L

 

[Premium Quality]

Looks like reality is slowly sinking into Trump.

 

[Strike]

Still stuck on crowd sizes.

 

[rjinaz]

Why are we supposed to care?

I mean I personally care that my President fires somebody over a crowd size after saying the place was full and saying how the media was afraid to show it.

Every time this piece of shit lies or acts irrationally I want to know it.

But hey, if you don't then don't click.

 

[shawnbuddy]

Look, he's just going to have to accept that his recent turn as a KKK and Nazi apologist will hurt his crowd sizes just a bit.

 

[SlickShoesRUCrazy]

smaller venues in coming.

 

[iammeiam]

I think he said the media didn't want to show the room because of the bigly crowds

He's been lying about this since the campaign and it drives me crazy. Quote from a thing about a rally a couple months ago:

16. ”They'll never show the crowd."

This frequent Trump complaint is unfounded: networks and reporters have no hesitation showing the crowds at his rallies. Networks were limited during the 2016 campaign: the main ”pool camera" is fixed on the politician speaking, and his own team denied requests to set up a camera riser to allow for an additional camera to provide crowd shots. This time, Fox News, one of few outlets carrying the rally live, immediately showed video of the crowd after Trump made this complaint.

He creates situations to give him justification for whining, and his followers take it as proof. It's this deeply sinister undercurrent to his tantrums whenever he doesn't think he's being praised enough.

 

[Journeywalker]

Not even Trump's safe spaces are bigly enough to keep his fragile icy crystalline ego from falling apart.

 

[ShadowSwordmaster]

This is the level of pettiness that I expect Trump to be.

 

[FyreWulff]

I wonder when people are gonna figure out it doesn't matter how loyal you are to him, he's still gonna put the knife in your back at the slightest stress.

 

[Foffy]

All ego.

It takes a lot for me to hate a person. Like, actively wish they fell down a flight of stairs and people walked past them bad.

Trump makes that feeling easy to curate. He's such a fucking loser.

 

[SoundofSilence]

 

[Lightning_Roller]

Trump continues to be completely pathetic.....

 

[DoomGyver]

Trump needed his daily power trip. I hope we fire him someday.

 

[Shadow Puppetry]

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Phoenix crowd last night was amazing - a packed house. I love the Great State of Arizona. Not a fan of Jeff Flake, weak on crime & border!

But

 

[Shadybiz]

Talk about losers...

Got news for you Trump...the crowds are going to keep getting smaller.

 

[Garlador]

Game of Thrones has Littlefinger; our country has Tinyhands.

One hopes both lose out eventually...

 

[adamsappel]

I wonder when people are gonna figure out it doesn't matter how loyal you are to him, he's still gonna put the knife in your back at the slightest stress.

But, for a guy whose schtick was saying "You're fired," he never does the deed in real life, instead he has someone else do it for him.

 

[Zolo]

Thanks to the guy in the other Neogaf thread before the rally saying he bought tickets to not show up and help lessen the crowd.

 

[HP_Wuvcraft]

Wait, but you said...

http://time.com/4912055/donald-trump-phoenix-arizona-transcript/

wait.

i saw the crowd in arizona.

but even then.

is he srsly saying arizona drew as much as a full capitol mall?

 

[Fancyarcher]

What a baby. Does he need a bib?

 

[PandaPandaPanda]

bu bu bu his supporters on twitter were posting pictures of the crowd that looked very similar to when the cavaliers won last year

/s

 

[RustyNails]

Wait, but you said...

http://time.com/4912055/donald-trump-phoenix-arizona-transcript/

It's called scripting. Kids usually do that when there's nothing to say.