Donald Trump simmers as Kamala Harris draws huge crowds on campaign trail

Donald Trump doesn’t seem very happy with the enthusiasm and media attention Kamala Harris received this week after her announcement for Minnesota governor. Tim Walz as her running mate for vice president.

In a post on his social media platform Truth Social, Trump complained about the reporting of crowds at Harris’ rallies in Georgia, Wisconsin and Michigan, which appeared to far outnumber him and even drew comparisons to Barack Obama‘s historic presidential campaign in 2008.

“When Kamala has 1,000 people at a rally, the press goes ‘crazy’ and talks about how ‘big’ it was — and she pays for her ‘crowd,’” Trump said Thursday, falsely accusing Harris’ campaign of paying attendees to come to the events.

“When I have a meeting and 100,000 people show up, the fake news doesn’t talk about it, THEY REFUSE TO MENTION THE SIZE OF THE PEOPLE. The fake news is the enemy of the people!” he added.

On Wednesday night, Harris and Walz drew a crowd of 15,000 in Detroit, the campaign’s largest rally to date. Organizers of the event moved it to an airport hangar because of the high volume of ticket requests — nearly 50,000.

The Democratic running mates arrived at the rally aboard Air Force Two, the vice president’s plane, in a dramatic entrance reminiscent of the entrances Trump staged in airplane hangars during his victorious 2016 presidential campaign.

Earlier in the day, in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Harris and Walz drew more than 10,000 people to another rally that signaled growing enthusiasm for their White House bid. Long lines of cars and people stretched for miles before the event was scheduled to begin.

And Tuesday was the day: Harris’ first joint event with Walz since announcing the Minnesota governor as her running mate, in Atlanta. The campaign drew 10,000 people, the same location where Trump had held a rally a few days earlier.

The former president, however, did not appear to draw as many attendees as Harris, complaining about empty seats and baselessly accusing Georgia State University of banning “thousands of people” from the venue.

“The school board has prevented us from getting another 500, 600, even a thousand people in,” Trump told supporters over the weekend. “Thousands of people were told they couldn’t get in. And that was OK, but we could have gotten another 600 people in.”

According to The Washington Post, Trump has become “increasingly upset” about the state of the race and the fact that he is running against Harris instead of President Joe Biden, who withdrew last month after facing pressure from within his party to pass the baton to a younger standard-bearer. Polls show Harris surging and her fundraising outpacing that of her GOP rival.

“It’s unfair that I [Biden] and now I have to beat her,” Trump told an ally in a phone call over the weekend, the Post reported.

Trump and his GOP allies have tried to seize control of the news cycle with ugly attacks on Harris’ race and gender, including questioning her ethnicity and even recycling the same false birther theory that Trump promoted against Obama and other rivals. So far, nothing appears to have stuck.

On Thursday, Trump announced he would hold a press conference at his Florida resort, a sign of his desperation to keep the cameras off Harris, according to Stephanie Grisham, his former White House press secretary.