The New York Times on Wednesday corrected a report that said President Trump’s rally in Nashville was attended by 1,000 people, after Trump complained that the paper vastly underestimated the size of the crowd.
“An earlier version of this article cited an incorrect figure for the number of people attending President Trump’s rally,” the online version of the Times correction said. “While no exact figure is available, the fire marshal’s office estimated that approximately 5,500 people attended the rally, not about 1,000 people.”
Times reporter Julie Davis, who authored the report, noted the correction on Twitter.
“President [Trump] is correct about his crowd last night,” she said. “My estimate was way off, and we have corrected our story to reflect the fire marshal’s estimate of 5,500 people. When we get it wrong, we say so.”
President @realDonaldTrump is correct about his crowd last night. My estimate was way off, and we have corrected our story to reflect the fire marshal’s estimate of 5,500 people. When we get it wrong, we say so. https://t.co/AX2JkAMyh4 https://t.co/2LbfmkiSti
— Julie Davis (@juliehdavis) May 30, 2018
The story covered Trump’s campaign-style rally in Nashville on Tuesday, emphasizing his remarks on immigration in its headline that said, “At rally in Nashville, Trump links Democrats to MS-13,” which is the gang network mostly made up of immigrants from Central America.
On Wednesday morning, Trump tweeted that “The Failing and Corrupt @nytimes estimated the crowd last night at ‘1000 people,’ when in fact it was many times that number — and the arena was rockin’.”
He said that the report “is the way [they] demean and disparage. They are very dishonest people who don’t ‘get’ me, and never did!”
