Last night, Donald Trump held a campaign rally in Phoenix, Arizona. Now, some would say it's odd to hold a campaign rally three and a half years before the next presidential election, and only mere months after you took office. (Those people would be historians, journalists, most political science professors, really anybody who's lived through any other period in American history.) But personally, I think it makes sense. Since Donald Trump took the oath of office, he's had to face the sobering challenge that is governing, and he has failed at every turn. His administration has been defined by racism, Russian collusion, incompetence, and an almost sociopathic inclination toward easily disproven lies. So of course he wants to get back on the trail, because that was the only time this whole "politics" thing really worked for him. The only problem? It's not working quite as well as it used to.

President Trump got on stage last night, and he ranted and he lied and he tried his best to play the hits, and though those in attendance ate it up, as they always do, there weren't quite as many of them as he'd have you believe. He got up on stage and talked about how people were pouring in, and from the podium asked that the fire marshal do whatever they could to fit everyone.

Now, Trump does this to make people watching at home think that he's speaking to a capacity crowd. Only that wasn't even close to the case. In fact, this is what his crowd actually looked like:

I mean, what a tough job for the fire marshal. How can you even think about squeezing in one more person? What, are they going to stand in that giant open space where there's plenty of room to stand? No way. That'd be crazy. But not only does Trump make these obvious lies from the podium, he does it while saying that the media is refusing to show the size of his actual crowd. This is like a wife walking in on her cheating partner in bed with his mistress, only for him to yell at her for refusing to admit what a great husband he is. And did you catch that other part of Trump's introductory comments? About how there aren't many people outside protesting? Well...

And the lies and attacks don't stop there. He also railed against the media for having the audacity to accurately report his statements on Charlottesville. That's right, Donald Trump got up last night and re-read his various statements on the attack and yelled about how it was bullshit that they weren't good enough for the media. But as if that weren't crazy enough, in re-reading his statements, he left out his infamous "many sides" comment. This is as if our previously mentioned cheating husband went to couple's counseling and agreed to apologize for all of the bad things he had done, one by one, and then left out the cheating in favor of "forgot to put the toilet seat down." Like, Donny boy, THAT'S WHY PEOPLE WERE MAD AT YOU. But not content to simply rewrite a white nationalist terrorist attack to make himself the victim, he went on to continue to divide the country into "us" and "them" over these issues.