President Trump Donald John TrumpOmar fires back at Trump over rally remarks: 'This is my country' Pelosi: Trump hurrying to fill SCOTUS seat so he can repeal ObamaCare Trump mocks Biden appearance, mask use ahead of first debate MORE appeared on Saturday to exaggerate the size of the crowd that gathered with him a day before election night in November 2016, asserting that 32,000 people showed up when the venue only held 4,200.

"We couldn't even get near the arena, there were 32,000 people," Trump said at a rally in Washington, Mich. "I finished speaking at 1 o'clock in the morning on election day — 32,000 people"

In fact, the Detroit Free Press reported that night that DeVos Place in downtown Grand Rapids, Mich., where Trump held the rally, has a capacity of 4,200, far less than the 32,000 that Trump claimed.

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Trump has a penchant for exaggerating crowd sizes. The president sent former White House press secretary Sean Spicer Sean Michael SpicerKellyanne Conway to leave White House at end of month Pro-Trump duo Diamond and Silk launch new program on Newsmax TV The Hill's 12:30 Report - Presented by Facebook - Supreme Court's unanimous decision on the Electoral College MORE out before reporters last year to argue that Trump's inauguration had "the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period, both in person and around the globe."

That assertion was widely refuted, as photos of Trump's inauguration crowd compared to former President Obama's inauguration crowd emerged.