Trump compares Jan. 6 crowd size to MLK's 'I have a dream' audience

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Published 2024-08-08
Former President Donald Trump falsely compared his January 6 crowd to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I have a dream" audience, saying they had the "same everything, same number of people." The comparison came in response to a question about whether he thought the conclusion of his term could be considered a peaceful transfer of power.

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All Comments (21)
  • @chriskelly6559
    Trumpo: "My crowd is bigger than your crowd!". "I'm not weird, you're weird" "I know words." "We wouldn't have won the Revolutionary War without our airports"
  • @hughjorg4008
    Trump is mentally chaotic , and JD Vance is chaotically weird 🤔 . America doesn't need these two chaotic men in the White House. Their mental chaos will result in political and economic chaos.
  • @NICKPORTER8855
    Trump may actually be the most pathetic person I've ever seen.
  • @joliecide
    Jan 6 crowd was like the one when MLKJ made the I Had a Dream speech? Child, please. What a weirdo.
  • @osirismoon
    "I'll just say something insane so I can stay in the news cycle". Trump
  • @davebrown8260
    Trump is being too modest. There were close to 100 million at his rally. The size of his rally could be seen from outer space by satellites. LOL
  • @user-gt3ld7eu6v
    He's a goner. This is Trump last stand and last stand it will be. But he won't bow down without trying to bring the whole country down with him.
  • @janetkirk6266
    Crowd size = broken record. Grow up and get over it.
  • @EhCloserLook
    "No one has spoken to crowds bigger than me." "No one knows more about our economy than I do." "No one knows our border better than I do." 🙄 Trump, you are a fool and you are EXHAUSTING!
  • @redcurrantart
    Yep. Walz called it. Weird. There’s just no other word.
  • "I don't want to run for President. I don't want to be President. What else can I say to make sure that happens?"
  • @ChrisHutchison88
    Later he said, "They say he(MLK) had a million people and I had 25,000. And I'm okay with it, because I like Dr. MLK." Thank God legacy media is dying.
  • @mikegardens
    Here we go again with SIZE... Don-Old is always comparing his size to black men... first Obama, now Martin Luther King... The crushing sense of inadequacy is palpable.These pressers are really starting to turn into psychoanalyst sessions on the couch.
  • @juliotorres3618
    Given that Harris is surging in the polls, of course he has to agree to the debates. This isn't the Republican primaries, when he could skate past people like Christie, who would have loved to confront him as a criminal.
  • @titanman8302
    Yeah Donald, we'll just call your speech 'I had a dream last night'.