Former President Donald Trump falsely claimed a crowd that gathered to see Vice President Kamala Harris arrive at a Michigan airport for a campaign rally was “fake,” insisting her campaign used artificial intelligence to mask the fact that “there was nobody there”—a claim refuted by images, videos and accounts of the event.
In a Truth Social post Sunday, Trump said there was “nobody there” when Harris arrived at the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport last week and that she “CHEATED at the airport,” sharing an image of supporters greeting her plane that he claimed was AI-generated—repeating a claim that has circulated on social media in recent days.
There is no evidence the image Trump shared was manipulated: The Harris campaign told Forbes the photo was taken by a campaign staffer at the rally and wasn’t changed using artificial intelligence (the campaign also said in a tweet it is an “actual photo”).
Trump’s broader claim that “nobody” was at Harris’ event is also contradicted by photos, videos and reports by independent news outlets: At least one local media outlet and the Associated Press estimated the rally—which was hosted in an airport hangar—was attended by roughly 15,000 people.
Multiple media outlets—including the Detroit Free Press, MLive, the Detroit News, the AP and Getty Images—have shared photos or galleries from the Wednesday rally that depicted a large crowd for Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
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