Former President Donald Trump has launched a new attack on Vice President Kamala Harris.
He is now falsely accusing Harris of using artificial intelligence to generate images of huge crowds in Michigan, and further alleging that “no one was waiting” for Harris when she arrived at the airport for the rally on Wednesday.
“Did anyone notice Kamala cheated at the airport,” he wrote in a Sunday Truth Social post. “There was no one on the plane and she manipulated it with an 'AI' to show hordes of so-called followers, but they weren't there!”
He added that photos of the incident, particularly those showing the Air Force Two aircraft with the landscape surrounding the airport, prove that “no one was waiting” for Harris.
Unfortunately for him, the crowd was actually very real.
Air Force Two carrying Harris and Gov. Tim Walz arrived for a campaign rally in Romulus, Michigan, on Wednesday. Carlos Osorio
Photos and videos showed a large crowd of supporters gathering at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport in Romulus, Michigan.
Harris speaks to supporters during a rally at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport. Julia Nickinson
People were seen standing shoulder to shoulder, filling the area.
Supporters at a rally for Harris in Michigan. Julia Nickinson
A video of the rally posted to X first zoomed in on Harris and her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz, descending the steps of Air Force Two, before zooming out to show supporters gathered in an airport hangar.
The Harris-Waltz campaign told CNBC that the crowd photo was “an actual photo of a crowd of 15,000 people that gathered at the Harris-Waltz campaign headquarters in Michigan.”
Their rallies have drawn large crowds across the country, including one in Glendale, Arizona, which drew more than 15,000 people on Friday, according to The Guardian.
Harris takes to the stage in front of a packed crowd at a rally in Glendale, Arizona, on Friday, and arrives to speak at a rally in Las Vegas on Saturday. Julia Nickinson
David Plouffe, a senior adviser to Harris' campaign, slammed Trump about X, writing, “This is not just some conspiracy theory rant from the deepest recesses of the internet. The author has nuclear weapons codes and could be held responsible for decisions that will affect us all for decades to come.”
Walz also mocked Trump at a rally in Glendale on Friday, saying “nobody cares about the size of the crowd.”
Trump is known to be very concerned about crowd size.
He said Thursday that the Jan. 6 rally drew a larger crowd than the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 rally.
Trump rallies do draw crowds, but a video posted by the conservative network RSBN showed his rally in Bozeman, Montana on Friday looking a bit deserted.
Trump was not speaking at the time, but video showed the crowd and even empty seats across much of the venue.
The former president has not previously been opposed to the use of AI in election campaigns.
In a podcast with controversial social media influencer Logan Paul released on June 14, Paul said that someone on his team used AI to rewrite the speech.
“He clicked, and 15 seconds later he had my speech, and it was so beautifully written,” he told Paul. “I thought, this is what I'm going to use.”
Representatives for President Trump and Senator Harris did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment sent outside of regular business hours.
