Former White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin on Friday disparaged President Trump’s lengthy press conference Thursday, arguing the GOP presidential nominee was hurting himself.
“This was an absolute dumpster fire of a press conference, just to be clear,” Farah Griffin said on “CNN News Central” to the outlet’s Kate Bolduan, in a clip highlighted by Mediaite.
Trump gave a lengthy and rambling press conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate Thursday, in which he discussed topics such as crowd size and abortion. When asked if he feared Vice President Harris’s crowd sizes, he gave an exasperated answer and went on defense.
“Oh, give me a break,” Trump said. “Listen, I had 107,000 people in New Jersey, you didn’t report it. I’m so glad you asked. What did she have yesterday, 2,000 people?”
In response to Trump’s talk about crowd sizes, Farah Griffin said that Trump is “triggered because he’s actually running against a candidate, for once, who is the celebrity candidate, the one that like pop culture is [following.]”
“That was him against [former Secretary of State] Hillary Clinton in 2016,” added Farah Griffin, a frequent critic of Trump.
Harris’s campaign has said that 14,000 people attended her rally in Philadelphia on Tuesday and 15,000 attended another in Detroit Wednesday night.
According to an average of national polls from The Hill/Decision Desk HQ, Harris is trailing Trump nationally by 0.2 points.
The Hill has reached out to the Trump campaign.