Former president and Republican nominee Donald Trump has long claimed his rallies are larger than his political opponents’ events. At an Aug. 8 press conference, he said, "Nobody's spoken to crowds bigger than me.”

Trump’s latest claim is that Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, manipulated a rally image to make it seem like there was a larger audience.

“Has anyone noticed that Kamala CHEATED at the airport? There was nobody at the plane, and she ‘A.I.’d’ it, and showed a massive ‘crowd’ of so-called followers, BUT THEY DIDN’T EXIST! She was turned in by a maintenance worker at the airport when he noticed the fake crowd picture, but there was nobody there, later confirmed by the reflection of the mirror like finish on the Vice Presidential Plane. She’s a CHEATER. She had NOBODY waiting, and the ‘crowd’ looked like 10,000 people,” a portion of Trump’s Aug. 10 Truth Social post said.

Accompanying the Truth Social post was a viral X post from conservative commentator Chuck Callesto. That post with more than 14 million views says, “BREAKING REPORT: Harris campaign BUSTED using FAKE crowd photo at campaign rally stop.”

Others implied that because there is no reflection of the crowd on the side of the plane, that is evidence the photo is fake. Another person said that there wasn’t a tail number on the plane, which further fueled the theory about the photo.

Several VERIFY readers asked us if the photo is fake, as the viral posts claim.

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