'Wasn't really the crowd that probably Trump had hoped for' in Bronx: Morning Joe panel
Protesters clash outside former President Donald Trump's rally in the Bronx on May 23, 2024. (Kathleen Culliton, Raw Story)
May 24, 2024
The panel on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" downplayed the impact of Donald Trump's rally in the Bronx on Thursday night, questioning crowd number claims while noting that a substantial number of the attendees only showed up out of curiosity.
Add to that, one member of the panel pointed out that the former president has lost his ability to entertain and shock crowds as his routine has gotten stale.
Fill-in host Jonathan Lemire kicked off the segment by pointing out that the crowd size was minuscule compared to the population of the Bronx, and mocked Trump's claim of a huge crowd, stating, "Yeah, it'd be the first time Trump ever exaggerated about crowd size, never happened before. Yes, he drew a sizable crowd to a deep blue part of New York City — if it is 7,000 or so. But the Bronx, of course, has a population of 1.4 million so it is a pretty small percentage of people who showed up for Donald Trump."
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Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson laughed off Trump's attempt to entice Black and Latino voters to show up and then added the former president appeared to be rambling.
"In terms of what he is saying, what in the world is he saying?" he laughed. "He's talking about his pants. He's talking about all this ridiculous stuff. And it is somewhat entertaining, but, you know, it sounds to me — I was looking around last night to try to figure out how many people actually showed up, it seems to really be in the low single-digit thousands, maybe not 7,000 from the sources I was looking at. Maybe fewer than that."
"So I think this is kind of a blip, it is a demonstration project," he continued. "He's trying to show, I guess, that he's getting some love from African-Americans and Latinos. I just don't think this is necessarily going to play one way or the other on the larger canvas of the electorate. I just don't see a big deal."
"Gene makes the point that there wasn't really the crowd that probably Trump had hoped for," MSNBC contributor Elise Jordan offered. "Doesn't really seem to really be the energy either. You know, the Trump show back in 2016, it was something that you tuned into a little bit because it was so freaky. Now, he has lost his ability to shock because he's said so many horrible things by now, he is running low on material."
"These big events that, you know, previously he could command a news cycle with, he says a couple of insane things and then it just drops," she added.
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