Trump: “I thought this would be like Dr. Martin Luther King, where the people will be lined up from here all the way to the Washington Monument,” said Trump. King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to a quarter-million supporters in August 1963.

Donald Trump was upset because his speech before the Rolling Thunder motorcycle riders didn’t look enough like one of the most famous events of the Civil Rights Movement.


CBS reported that Trump bragged about how big his crowd was as he went through the usual elements of his stump speech.

(Trump: More would have been here, but they were PREVENTED from coming.)


Unfortunately, despite “hundreds of thousands” riding on “the most beautiful bikes I’ve ever seen,” Trump was dismayed that his self-estimated 600,000 attendees didn’t manage a crowd that stretched from the Lincoln Memorial to the Washington Monument.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau‘s statistics, having a 600,000 crowd would mean that the Rolling Thunder riders would’ve practically had to match the District of Columbia’s entire population.

US News quoted a Rolling Thunder sportswoman who estimated that there were only around 5,000 people at the crowd.

Furthermore, it was almost impossible for Trump to have had 600,000 people there due to a combination of National Mall crowd restrictions, the event’s late announcement, and the security measures that would’ve been instituted at that location by his Secret Service detail.

So, there's that...

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