Upset over Phoenix crowd size, Donald Trump fires the guy who organizes his rallies
Donald Trump claimed there were fifteen thousand people at his infamous rally in Phoenix. The city itself has confirmed the crowd was no more than ten thousand. Reporters on site have confirmed that so many of Trump’s fans left during the course of the meandering speech, the hall was around half empty toward the end. And now Trump is so upset by the whole thing that he’s fired the guy who’s long organized his political rallies.
Trump’s official reason for firing longtime event organizer George Gigicos is that he didn’t like how the room was still filling up at the time he began speaking, and that the crowd was flat, according to Bloomberg (link). But the cold hard reality is that Trump can’t draw a crowd like he used to, and more vitally, he can’t hold a crowd once he begins his endless rambling. More to the point, Trump is now scapegoating his own loyal people for it.
This comes at a time when Donald Trump has recently pushed top advisers Reince Priebus, Sean Spicer, Anthony Scaramucci, Sebastian Gorka, Ezra Cohen-Watnick and Steve Bannon out of their White House roles, among others. He’s also faced the resignations of dozens of members of his various advisory councils, and the resignation of his science envoy, in protest. Simply put, Trump is running out of people – and he’s barely making an effort to replace anyone who’s departed.
Now, on top of it all, Donald Trump is resorting to scapegoating people like his longtime campaign rally organizer. Trump’s ranks continue to thin, out of protest, out of pressure, out of spite, you name it. And now we know that he’s willing to fire people specifically so he doesn’t have to take the blame for his own shrinking popularity. Who will he decide to scapegoat next?
