bleat

“People don’t leave my rallies,” Trump bleated, insisting despite abundant proof to the contrary that his crowds are the biggest in American political history.

“If you're going to be a professional criminal, you'll be in the nick from time to time, and while you're there you make the best of it and don't bleat about it,” he said.

Trump bleated in one post, claiming the hordes were actually AI-generated fakes.

Sometimes at press conferences, we sound like bleating sheep.

She pointed at the ridge of a nearby rock formation, but I couldn’t understand her shouts over the noise of bleating pack animals, the squawking of birds, and the drumming in my ears.