CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Takes On Trump Crowd Size Complaints With Trump-Kamala Harris Splitscreen

CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins answered former President Donald Trump’s complaints about crowd size with a split-screen comparison to a Vice President Kamala Harris rally, and said her sources tell her Trump is privately fuming about the coverage Harris has been getting.

Trump drew attention this weekend by lashing out at several targets during a rally in Georgia, including complaints about the size of his crowd — which he claimed was restricted by the administration at Georgia State University. He also derided the VP’s crowd at the same arena days earlier.

On Monday night’s edition of CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins , Collins prefaced a segment with analyst Adam Kinzinger by noting those complaints, and showing a side-by-side comparison with fewer visible empty seats for Harris.

Collins asked Kinzinger what he makes of Trump constantly “bringing it up”:

COLLINS: There is one issue that former President Donald Trump believes he is far better on, than Vice President Harris. And he is using it to pitch voters in Georgia.

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TRUMP: Crazy Kamala, ultra-left, you know that. She was here a week ago. Lots of empty seats.

It’s very boring. I don’t need entertainers. I fill the stadium, because I’m making America great again.

(AUDIENCE CHEERS)

TRUMP: She has to go get entertainers. They start leaving as soon as she opens her mouth.

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COLLINS: Trump was complaining that an estimated 10,000 people were at Harris’ event that she had there, a few days before.

I should note, they were hosting their rallies, in the exact same arenas. I should — as these were happening, side by side, you can see both of the images here.

Joining me, tonight, is the former Republican congressman, Adam Kinzinger.

And Congressman, obviously, Trump — we were just talking to Lindsey Graham, about Trump and how he’s going after Harris.

I’m told, privately, he’s been complaining about the coverage that she’s getting, the momentum that clearly Democrats have felt, since Biden exited the race.

Crowd sizes have always been an obsession of his. But I wonder what you make of how often he kept bringing it up, on Saturday night, and clearly since then.

ADAM KINZINGER: Well, I mean, it obviously bothers him.

I mean, let’s keep in mind. I sat through his inauguration. And it was a pretty empty mall in the capital. Nothing wrong with that, because people didn’t want to travel from super-far-away. But he was obsessed with that for four years in office.

And I mean, if you think about, let’s think back to when he was President. Every day there was some new tweet that wasn’t talking about important things, like Iran or Ukraine, or — it was talking about something that he was offended by, that the rest of America didn’t care about. So, that’s what you’re seeing.

And he talks about Kamala bringing entertainers. Let’s be clear. He’s got a lot of, frankly, D-list celebrities, and he had a couple of rappers that were wanted on murder charges, at one of his rallies. He would have these same entertainers. He’s just got nobody with real star power there.

And yes, I mean, it just — he’s obsessed with that, and not with talking about how he wants to make America better. It’s just that’s how he is.

Watch above via CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins .