Donald Trump, in a news conference where he frequently railed about rally crowd sizes, claimed the size of his crowd on January 6th was comparable to the crowd at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech.
“If not, we had more,” the Republican presidential nominee said as he spoke to reporters at his Mar-a-Lago estate. “You look at the picture of his crowd, my crowd — we actually had more people. They said I had 25,000, and he had 1 million people. And I'm okay with it because I liked Dr. Martin Luther King.”
During the news conference, Trump condemned a reporter asking a “stupid question” about crowd sizes. Trump then went on an aside in which he bragged that he's had “hundreds of thousands of people” attend his rallies while he claimed Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris had only a few thousand.
Trump's comments followed him complaining in recent days about the news media’s focus on his smaller turnout at a rally in Atlanta this weekend — the same spot where Harris had a larger crowd earlier in the week. And Trump has complained in the past about the news media's reporting on his crowd sizes, most notably when his White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, in 2017 falsely claimed that Trump drew the "the largest audience to ever see an inauguration."
