Trump Compares His Rally Crowd to MLK’s Historic Speech, Bernice King Fires Back (Video)

Former President Donald Trump made a bold comparison, claiming that his rally crowd rivaled, if not surpassed, the iconic turnout for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic speech during the 1963 March on Washington.

Addressing his supporters, Trump said, “You never see the picture of the crowd. The biggest crowd I’ve ever spoken to, I’ve spoken to the biggest crowds, nobody’s spoken to crowds bigger than me. If you look at Martin Luther King, when he did his speech, his great speech, and you look at ours, same real estate, same everything, same number of people. If not, we had more. And they said he had a million people, but I had 25,000 people.”

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He continued, emphasizing the visual comparison between the two events, “When you look at the exact same picture, and everything’s the same, because it was the fountains, the whole thing, all the way back from Lincoln to Washington, and you look at it, and you look at the picture of his crowd, my crowd, we actually had more people. They said I had 25,000, and he had a million people. And I’m okay with it, because I liked Dr. Martin Luther King. Yeah, please.”

Trump’s remarks quickly sparked a wave of reactions, but one response stood out: Bernice King, the daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., took to social media to set the record straight. Responding to Trump’s claims, she tweeted, “Absolutely not true. I really wish that people would stop using my father to support fallacy.” Along with her statement, Bernice King posted a powerful photo of her father and the massive crowd at the “I Have a Dream” speech, leaving no room for doubt about the significance of that historic moment.

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— Be A King (@BerniceKing) August 8, 2024