The jeers of a clown

Ragin’ Trump’s crowd fantasy

HIS EGO reeling from allegations he hired actors to pad the crowd at his campaign kickoff, Donald Trump insisted Thursday the over-the-top rally was actually “packed” with real supporters.

“They had to lock the front doors, there were hundreds and hundreds of people out on the street that couldn’t get in,” Trump said on “Good Day New York.”

“The place was packed, so the last thing we need is more people, they had to lock … actually close the front doors,” he claimed, calling the allegations that he used actors “false.”

A Daily News reporter who attended the event saw no such crowds clamoring to get in.

Extra Mile, the casting company that the Hollywood Reporter claimed sent out a June 12 email offering $50 gigs to cheer Trump on, declined repeated requests for comment.

Gotham Government Relations, the New York-based consulting firm that helped organize Trump’s event, reiterated its claims that the fans-for-hire allegations were false.

In a separate interview with MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Trump, who announced Tuesday that he would run for the Republican presidential nomination, launched a round of attacks on his competitors, calling Jeb Bush “unhappy” and saying Marco Rubio was “highly overrated.”

“And by the way, I have much better hair than he does,” Trump said of Rubio.

Trump’s take-no-prisoners style of campaigning has apparently won at least two fans in New York.

Uniformed Firefighters Association President Stephen Cassidy tweeted it was “nice to have a candidate speak off the cuff!”

UFA Vice President Jim Slevin tweeted that Trump was “actually talking about the issues and his platform better than any other candidate has so far.”