'Look with your eyes': Joy Reid laughs as she debunks Trump's crowd size boasts

MSNBC's Joy Reid openly laughed at former President Donald Trump's news conference boasts about his crowd sizes on Thursday — and provided photographic evidence to prove he was talking nonsense.

"It kind of helps if you take the time to actually go out and meet the voters," said Reid. "While [Kamala] Harris and [Tim] Walz have been putting in the miles, hitting multiple states this week with more to go, all Trump has done is hit the putting greens as he remained holed up at Mar-a-Lago."

Reid added: "Wasn't he the one who was complaining throughout his New York criminal trial earlier this year that all he wanted to do was be on the campaign trail? Well, today was the first time he took a break from his demanding schedule of walking around a putting green and eating McDonald's cheeseburgers to hold a press conference at his Florida estate."

The result, she added, was "exactly" the "stream of consciousness you would expect."

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"Nobody has spoken to crowds bigger than me," Trump in a clip played on the show. "If you look at Martin Luther King, when he did his speech, his great speech, and you look at ours, same real estate, same everything. You look at it, and you look at the picture of his crowd and my crowd, we actually had more people. I had 107,000 people in New Jersey. You didn't report it. I'm so glad you asked. What did she have yesterday, 2,000 people? I have 10 times, 20 times, 30 times the crowd size."

"Just to set the record straight — and I cannot believe I have to do this — here's a picture of the 1963 March on Washington, and a picture of Trump's crowd on January 6th, before a bunch of them stormed the Capitol, which he claims was bigger, a bigger crowd than Dr. King's," said Reid. "One of these crowds is clearly larger than the other, at 250,000 strong, while the other is basically hooligan-sized. And why is he boasting about his crowd size on January 6th anyway? And again, on crowd size. Here is Harris' crowd in Philadelphia. And here is Trump's crowd in the same exact arena."

"Just look with your eyes as to who filled more seats," she added. "You can literally just look."

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