[NYPOST] President Trump greeted hundreds of supporters gathered outside a Minnesota rally venue Friday night after Democratic state officials limited attendance to just 250 socially distanced seats.A crowd many times larger than the number of people allowed a seat near Trump gathered outside the gates in Rochester, southeastern Minnesota, images tweeted by journalists indicate.Trump took a motorcade to the overflow crowd rather than the state-sanctioned stage after disembarking Air Force One.
"There are thousands of people all because the governor wants to play games," Trump said as he approached within feet of the large group of supporters gathered behind a barricade.
"There are thousands of people injured by this," Trump said. " I’m going to go back and speak to 250 people... This should be a lesson [for Democratic Gov. Tim Walz]."
When he walked on stage, supporters were spaced out in folding chairs permitted by Minnesota authorities before Trump’s lectern.
The president tore into Walz and Minnesota’s Democratic Attorney General Keith Ellison, a former congressman.
"We’re given a very very hard time by your so called leaders but they’re not very good leaders as you found out during the riots," Trump said.
"There are at least 25,000 people who wanted to be here tonight. We just saw a lot of them, wanted to pay our respects. They were here for a long time, they waited and waited and then the governor did bad things."