With the presidential elections approaching, Republican candidate Donald Trump is barely off the headlines — be it his digs at Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, or his overconfidence about coming back to power. Though reports have suggested that he is feeling threatened after Harris stepped up as the Democratic candidate for the presidential race, he has not been holding any bars while amping himself up against his opponent.
This time, the controversial leader has compared the size of his rally crowds to those of Martin Luther King Jr. Speaking during a Mar-a-Lago news conference on Thursday, Trump claimed that nobody in history has spoken to crowds bigger than his audiences during the infamous January 6 rally. Here’s everything the MAGA aspirant said.
Donald Trump Compares His January 6 Rally To Martin Luther King’s
Donald Trump has been working rigorously for election campaigns. While most of his speeches have essentially been dominated by digs at Kamala Harris’s color, race, and inadequacies, he has, for a change, targeted another black man. Trump claimed that even Martin Luther King Jr. did not speak in front of crowds as big as the one he had during his January 6 rally.
“Nobody has spoken to crowds bigger than me,” Trump said, further comparing his “Stop the Steal” rally to King’s iconic “I Have a Dream” speech while standing on the National Mall. “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,” he said.
However, according to official estimates, Trump’s crowd numbered about 53,000—a far cry from the estimated 250,000 that had listened to King’s 1963 address at the other end.
Trump reiterated his claims that those who had been arrested during the rally were being treated more harshly than the violent protesters of the previous summer and then, unprompted, compared his historic event to King’s. While Trump acknowledged that his crowd size was officially estimated to be smaller than that of King’s, he said photos prove otherwise.
“But when you look at the exact same picture and everything is the same — because it was the fountains, the whole thing all the way back to go from Lincoln to Washington — and you look at it, and you look at the picture of my crowd … we actually had more people,” he said.
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Donald Trump Takes Another Dig At Rival Kamala Harris Over Her Racial Roots
Soon after Donald Trump made the claim – which would have been historic if it had been true – the NAACP was quick to correct the record. They tweeted out images of the competing gatherings side by side, with the post headlined, “Not only is that totally inaccurate, but here’s what is more important: MLK’s speech was about democracy. Trump’s was about tearing it down.”
This is not the only time that Trump’s rhetoric has ventured into controversial territories. In this same press conference, he took aim at Vice President Kamala Harris, focusing on her racial identification and qualifications. Trump claimed that the fact that Harris identified as Black and Indian American was “disrespectful” to Black and Indian American voters and that she must have won the position of the candidate simply because she was a woman.
Trump has had several controversial moments since the 2024 election campaigns began — right from comparing himself to a civil rights icon to bowing their heads in pity while they rid themselves of him. In another one, he made sure to pick apart black women from his vote bank. “I seem to be doing very well with Black males,” Trump said, although conceding, “It’s possible that I won’t do as well with Black women.”
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