On October 26, Donald Trump spoke at a campaign rally at the Crossroads Arena in Corinth, Mississippi, to endorse Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith for re-election. At one point in his speech, Trump, 80, told the audience:“Have you seen the crowd outside? 22,000 people watching. We love you out there. They are watching the jumbotrons. We have needed them at every arena in the country. We are having this. It’s totally changed things.”Meanwhile, independent journalist and internet personality Aaron Rupar shared a picture from the campaign rally showing many unoccupied seats.“Empty seats are seen as Trump speaks in Mississippi tonight (Chip Somodevilla/Getty),” Rupar captioned his post on X.According to the Crossroads Arena website, it seats 7,708 people. The town of Corinth has over 14,000 residents, as per the U.S. Decennial Census.TikTok user @imaniwilliamstv1 shared a minute-long viral clip highlighting the small crowd size watching the jumbotrons outside the Crossroads Arena.Exploring Donald Trump’s other remarks at the Mississippi rallyOn Monday, Donald Trump said at his Mississippi campaign rally that he was determined to reverse the pattern that midterm elections often go against the ruling party. Thereafter, he noted that his campaigning has “totally changed the dialogue,” adding:“For some reason, presidents don’t do well in the midterm, no matter how good they are, even if they’re great, like us. But I will say, nobody has ever campaigned, nobody’s ever campaigned as I have for midterms.”During his 83-minute speech, the U.S. President devoted 10 minutes to boasting about his White House renovations and building of a ballroom in the East Wing. As he was moving on to quoting statistics about the economy, a heckler shouted, “Shove that ballroom up your fat a**!” While the man was being escorted out, Trump told him to “go home.”Elsewhere, he called out his predecessor Barack Obama and claimed Brazil’s re-election of Lula “looked like another rigged election, frankly.” Trump also claimed that “one of my top people got killed” in a carjacking, before he returned to power in January 2025 and deployed federal forces to Washington, D.C.“It was terrible; you couldn’t go to a restaurant. People would walk to the White House; they’d get mugged or killed. One of my top people got killed. Driving up, I guess, waiting for his wife to come out of an office building, bring her home, and this guy comes up and wants the car and shoots him right through the head. Dead. It was terrible. And we don’t have that anymore,” he claimed.Trump was probably referring to the murder of Mike Gill, a former chief of staff at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, in 2024.Ahead of the POTUS’ rally in Corinth, Democratic Senate candidate Scott Colom campaigned outside the Crossroads Arena and spoke with conservative voters. Colom also tweeted about his interaction, along with a few images. He wrote:“Walking the line outside the Trump rally in Corinth, I was reminded that more unites us than divides us here in Mississippi. I heard from folks who want to get foreign money out of our elections, put an end to Flock cameras, keep our border secure, and make sure our veterans are taken care of.”Scott, who is a Mississippi District Attorney, added:“Thank you to everyone who took the time to talk with me and share what matters most to them. When I’m elected to the U.S. Senate, I’ll represent every Mississippian — whether you voted for me or not. That’s what the job is all about. #MississippiMatters”Besides Cindy Hyde-Smith and Scott Colom, independent candidate Ty Pinkins is also competing in the 2026 Mississippi Senate race.