Trump claims audience ‘went crazy’ for him at his debate with Harris – but there was no audience

Donald Trump has been roasted for claiming that the audience at the presidential debate with Kamala Harris “went crazy” for him – despite the fact that there was no live audience present.

The former president often claims his crowd sizes are huge – even wildly claiming he drew in a bigger crowd than Martin Luther King Jr during the March on Washington – but this time, he appeared to go even further by claiming there was one at all.

Appearing on Wednesday’s episode of Gutfeld!, Trump hit out at the ABC News’ debate’s moderators arguing they “corrected everything I said practically.”

“They didn’t correct her once. And they corrected me, everything I said, practically. I think nine times or 11 times,” he told Greg Gutfeld.

Trump then referred to the nonexistent audience.

“And the audience was absolutely– they went crazy,” he said.

One of the rules of the September 10 debate was that there would be no live audience, in addition to the candidate’s microphones being switched off when they weren’t answering questions and that they could not wear earpieces.

Social media went into a frenzy following Trump’s comments on the Fox News show .

“Um… er… what audience?” wrote one X user.

Another claimed the comments pointed to Trump suffering cognitive decline: “Delusional, senile.”

Someone else suggested a reason for the presidential candidate’s apparent confusion: “Not an audience, but you could hear people in the room laughing at ‘they’re eating the dogs…‘. I think it was the crew.”

Speaking to Gutfeld, Trump later pointed to the TV ratings from the debate.

“We had 75 million people watching, something like that, and you have to do well,” he said.

It is unclear if Trump was referring to the TV ratings when he spoke about the