Donald Trump was boasting about the size of his campaign rallies at the wrong time on Wednesday.
As the former president declared that his rallies are massively attended and no one leaves early, a MAGA fan behind him got up and left.
The episode was captured in the background of the live broadcast of his rally in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, with six days left until Election Day.
The size of the protests has notoriously been a sore point for Trump, who has maintained that his rallies are the largest in human history.
Meanwhile, Kamala Harris has consistently mocked her fascination with crowds.
Trump boasted that no one leaves his rallies early just as someone apparently left him behind.
“It’s sad, we’ve done this for nine years, we’ve had the biggest protests in the history of the world,” Trump said Wednesday.
“Chancellors and prime ministers, people would tell me that they see the demonstrations from Europe.”
‘Everyone watches our rallies, everyone loves our rallies, we never have an empty seat. They try to demean us like that horrible, horrible person I debated where she said
Just as Trump was declaring this, a man wearing a black shirt with the former president’s criminal mugshot from Georgia began to leave the platform behind Trump.
Appearing to come down from the stands, the man disappeared behind Trump’s dominant silhouette in the foreground of the shot.
Former United States President and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump arrives to speak at a campaign rally at the Rocky Mount Event Center in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, on October 30, 2024.
“It’s sad, we’ve done this for nine years, we’ve had the biggest protests in the history of the world,” he said. “Chancellors and prime ministers, people would tell me that they see the demonstrations from Europe”
‘Everyone watches our rallies, everyone loves our rallies, we never have an empty seat. “They try to demean us like that horrible, horrible person I debated with who said, ‘and people leave early,’ nobody leaves early,” the Republican continued.
Although the former president’s rallies are typically packed, there are regularly some held in the back of venues, which are often stadiums or other large venues.
But since the duration of these types of productions often extends more than 5 hours for some attendees, even the MAGA faithful leave early.
But maybe Trump can’t see back.
Fans look at Trump during his rally.
“If I saw them leaving early, you know what I would say, ‘ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much and make America great again, thank you very much,’ and I would leave,” the Republican said.
“But I’ve never had to do that.”
Sensing the irony of the clip the Harris campaign posted, he reposted it on social media sharing the awkward moment.
“Trump claims ‘no one leaves’ his rallies early as people leave early behind him,” the Harris campaign’s X account posted.