Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Thursday criticized a New York Times reporter for the way he quantified the audience a day earlier at a campaign stop in South Carolina.
Trump posted on Instagram that Times reporter Jonathan Martin was “dishonest” in his article quantifying the number of people who came to hear him speak.
In his article on Wednesday, Martin described Trump’s speech to small business leaders in South Carolina as having “about a third of the seats” vacant. (Above is an Associated Press photo from that event.)
But Martin noted in the same article that a speech that Trump gave later in the day at the University of South Carolina had a “far larger crowd.”
Here’s Trump’s post on Instagram:
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The crowds in those empty seats were YUUUUUGE!
The way T-Rump’s reacting, you’d think the Times reported that Carly had sliced off his “massive crowd”.
LOOK AT MEEEE!!! Narcissist.
I don’t even have Twiitter, so I can only wish somebody would start a hashtag labellled #makeAmericaWhiteAgain. I’ll bet dozens of Trump backers would write in.
The biggest, classiest, most luxurious crowd ever! When Trump is CEO of the TrumpStates of America, everyone will have a crowd like that because we’ll be great again!