Hundreds of Trump supporters rallied across the country to defend a president who they say has been treated unfairly https://t.co/GrHyUkYa8u
— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 27, 2017
Almost too pathetic to inspire schadenfreude. Almost.
…[T]he modest crowds that showed up for the noontime rallies from New Jersey to Georgia to Colorado offered a reminder of what liberal groups learned eight years ago in the face of Tea Party anger at President Barack Obama: Stoking grass-roots energy is often easier for the outraged resistance than for the party pulling the levers in Washington.
Continue reading the main story“I’m getting a lot of comments from the leftists about, ‘Your crowd’s not going to be as big as our crowd,’” said Betty Blanco, a retired teacher from La Junta, Colo., on the state’s conservative eastern plains, who organized a rally on the steps of the gold-domed State Capitol. “I didn’t know it was a contest.”
About 150 Trump supporters turned out for Monday’s rally in Denver, held just across the street from a park that had swelled with tens of thousands of protesters as part of the Women’s March on Jan. 21…
It’s one thing to plan for a big excursion to an arena show by your favorite teevee celebrity; it’s a much less enticing task to waste a lunch hour in the company of a handful of fellow fanatics, out in the weather, with at best a stringer from the local news assigned to see if a fistfight breaks out in case there’s no more photogenic car crashes or fires before prime time.
Monday pro-Trump rallies a massive flop as event photos show tiny crowds https://t.co/WFNCSM3iUI pic.twitter.com/JhFPYRtjq3
— Raw Story (@RawStory) February 28, 2017
Breitbart said today's pro-Trump rallies would be "MASSIVE." The photos I've seen so far: pic.twitter.com/3gnSaAayiz
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) February 27, 2017
I won't put up pictures of the Women's March because that would just be cruel. pic.twitter.com/r0P9lGQHJC
— Schooley (@Rschooley) February 27, 2017
the pro trump rally in Atlanta had literally tens of people pic.twitter.com/tGT1pAuokD
— Craft Beer Dude (@SockinDingers) February 27, 2017
The big Trump rally happening now in Bellingham, WA. The energy is electric. People are coming out en masse to make America laugh again. pic.twitter.com/c3cwnhHmGf
— Erica Melzer (@ladylovescode) February 27, 2017
2. The "rally" consisted of 12 people https://t.co/OMhe6DfpGI pic.twitter.com/tTQYojfAUT
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) February 27, 2017