Trump falsely claims Harris used AI to fake rally image as his obsession with crowd size deepens

Former President Donald Trump has long been obsessed with numbers that signal dominance, like net worth, television ratings, poll results and the attendance figures at his political rallies.

In 2016, Trump pointed to the outsized attendance at his campaign stops to dispute the polls that showed Hillary Clinton leading him on the eve of the election. In 2017, he spent his first full day in office claiming his inauguration crowd was larger than that of former President Barack Obama. (It wasn’t.)

Now Trump is again obsessing over crowd size, inflating the number of supporters at his rallies while questioning the drawing power of his opponents, Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, her running mate.