“I've spoken to the biggest crowds. Nobody's spoken to crowds bigger than me. If you look at Martin Luther King, when he ... uh ... did his speech, his great speech, and you look at ours, same real estate, same everything, same number of people—if not we had more. And they said he had a million people and I had 25,000 people. But if you look at the exact same picture, and everything's the same because the fountains, the whole thing all the way back to ... uh ... from Lincoln to Washington, and you look at it, and you look at the picture, of his crowd, my crowd, we actually had more people.”

-- Donald Trump, two days ago, in a rare press conference. All of the above was cleaned up by the mainstream media for public consumption, of course. If a Democrat slips up, they're hounded for months. This kind of B.S. by a Republican, particularly this Republican, and the MSM polishes the turd until they can see their faces in it. They're cowards. They've been cowards with Republicans since Agnew, or maybe Reagan, but they're always looking for ways to not be “the liberal media,” which they haven't been for decades and decades. They're the opposite of that. Dems get held to tight standards, while Republicans (particularly this Republican) suffer from the soft bigotry of low expectations.

FURTHER READING/VIEWING:

• Tom Nichols, “The Truth About Trump's Press Conference: His obvious emotional instability is frightening, not funny,” in The Atlantic
• Lawrence O'onnell, “The Last Word,” MSNBC

Came across part of a speech he gave in Montana this past week and it's more of the same gibberish: 

“The numbers are much worse. They've let an invasion of our country happen. But I took a look. [Mimes taking a look.] And because I took that look, I mean, what are the chances of that? So I just want to thank everybody, cause, I tell you what, the level of love and compassion and all of the things that we all went through—that was a terrible thing—and we're going to be very careful. We have to be very careful.”

My kingdom for a serious media.