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The former president’s claim is being met with skepticism.
Donald Trump says he’s still making people cry.
The former president resurrected one of his most persistent claims during an interview that aired over the weekend: the one about people reduced to tears when they see him.
“I have steel people, that every time they see me, they start to cry,” he told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo. “They hug me. They said, ‘You saved our industry.’”
If the story rings a bell, it’s because Trump has told plenty of variations of crying people over the years, often “tough guys” who had never cried before.
He did so in 2019 when he told of a man who wept as he begged Trump to cut regulations.
“I don’t think he cried in his life and I don’t think he cried when he was a baby,” Trump recalled. “He was crying. He said, ‘Sir, you give me back my life and my property.’”
He also spoke of others at the event as “tough people, strong, tough, men and women, half of them were crying.”
