US President Donald Trump has complained about media coverage of his campaign rallies after former President Barack Obama attracted a large crowd at a political event in Michigan on Saturday.
Obama appeared in Detroit alongside Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and gubernatorial nominee Jocelyn Benson to rally support for the candidates on the first day of in-person early voting in the state.
Reacting to the event during a rally in Georgia, Trump questioned the attention Obama received, alleging that the media often overlooked the crowds at his own appearances.
“Now he’s making a speech for Mohamed, today, in a massive crowd! A massive crowd has shown up? Where are they? They never talk about my crowd,” Trump said.
Trump referred to El-Sayed by his middle name, Mohamed, which he has repeatedly used when mentioning the Democratic candidate.
The President also revisited his long-standing complaints about media coverage of Senator Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont, claiming that the press gave the progressive politician favourable attention despite drawing smaller audiences than he did.
Trump alleged that Sanders attracted between 900 and 1,000 people at events where his own rallies drew between 35,000 and 40,000 attendees.
“They’d say Bernie Sanders is speaking to massive crowds — they weren’t bad, but they were a tiny fraction,” he said.
However, Sanders has attracted substantial audiences at recent political events. His Fighting Oligarchy tour with Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez drew an estimated 36,000 people to a rally in Los Angeles in April 2025.
The tour had also attracted more than 34,000 people at an earlier rally in Denver, highlighting the significant turnout at events featuring the Vermont senator and Ocasio-Cortez.
