Photo of large crowd not taken at Trump - Cruz rally

[left-of-center2012]

A photo showing a crowd of nearly one million people engulfing major roadways was not taken during President Donald Trump's rally in Houston this week, as several people falsely claimed on social media.

The president stopped in Houston Monday to stump for Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, as part of his multi-stop tour to mobilize GOP voters ahead of the midterm elections. Trump held the event at the 19,000-seat Toyota Center , where crowds gathered outside hours prior to his speech.

But the image circulating on social media was snapped in June 2016 during a million-person parade that took place in downtown Cleveland to celebrate the Cavaliers' NBA championship. Using a drone, Bruce Bishop and Matt Mishak took the photo while covering the event for the Chronicle-Telegram, a newspaper in Elyria, Ohio.

This is not the first time the photo has been falsely identified as being from a Trump rally. The Chronicle-Telegram reiterated the photo's origin on its Facebook page in August 2017, after a conservative website shared the image as purporting to show a crowd of supporters awaiting Trump's arrival in Phoenix.

https://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/NOT-REAL-NEWS-Photo-of-large-crowd-not-taken-at-13330935.php

[MontanaMama]

1. I read on Snopes

that this was a photo of the Cleveland Cavaliers rally? This isn't even Houston! They have to lie about everything. It is exhausting.

[left-of-center2012]

3. From the opening post ...

"the image circulating on social media was snapped in June 2016 during a million-person parade
that took place in downtown Cleveland to celebrate the Cavaliers' NBA championship."

[Caliman73]

2. Trump supporters are typically ignorant...

so they think that everyone is ignorant like their supporters. Do they not understand that people know about architecture and can recognize photographs they have taken?

[LonePirate]

4. Some MAGAt must have been suffering from crowd size shame so they used the Cleveland photo.

[LanternWaste]

5. The right wing is certainly intent on convincing us how big their yeti-public is.

Bless their.... little hearts.