Trump team claims 250,000 watched military parade. ‘No Kings’ events drew 4 million
Trump team claims 250,000 watched military parade. ‘No Kings’ events drew 4 million
If he claims that number then the real number closer to 2500.
I’m guessing 30-60k, based on the density of participants and their initial estimates on crowd size. They expected 200k and most seats were empty as they grew more distant. Why would you prepare for 5-10x your projected crowd? No, they just had a poor showing between the weather and the approval rating.
Because a lot of actually-cool trolls signed up for the parade with no intention of actually attending
not to mention, I saw a news report where people went to the parade just because of their ties to the army, and not to see the presidential nonsense.
While it's safe to assume that the people who'd go to a Trump parade are pretty dense, I'm not sure how you can tell that from a picture.
I don't think the weather had anything to do with it.
Why would you prepare for 5-10x your projected crowd?
Because Trump is a megalomaniac surrounded by toadies, and nobody was willing to tell him that his turnout expectations were bullshit.
The population of the DC metro area is about 6.3 million people.
Even as an embellished number, 250k is weak sauce.
For comparison:
The Bristol Day Parade (longest continually running 4th of July parade in the US) draws around 200k, and that's in fucking Rhode Island with a paltry 1m population. And Rhode Islanders don't like long drives or traffic. I'm 40, lived in RI/SEMA my whole life, and never went.
Macy's Thanksgiving Parade draws 2.5M. 1M spend NYE in Times Square.
It's on the wrong side of the bay. I'm not going all that way for a fucking parade.
Yeah that's the other thing. It's in Bristol!
That's practically Massachusetts! And not even like, Boston...it's like...Swansea. Suburban, nearly rural.
To get from Providence, you practically have to go into Massachusetts first.
To get from Warwick (where PVD airport is) or points south, you have to take the Pell bridge, which is a toll road, in addition to a bridge. Iirc, the only toll road in RI for 2-axle vehicles...so not a lot of people even really have EZPass. And you gotta cross the Jamestown Bridge first.
These are all things most Rhode Islanders loathe doing.
And yet despite that, it gets 80% of what Trump claimed his draw was. Pathetic.
Long drives and Rhode Island are mutually exclusive.
I’ll bet he’s seething today. Like ketchup on the walls, needing 20+ diaper changes seething. Probably didn’t sleep last night because he was glued to the teevee, clicking through news reports and getting angrier by the minute at the coverage.
Whomever runs interference was likely up all night trying to find favourable articles to print to placate him during his briefing this morning, and it didn’t work. They probably had to dodge a hurled half-empty Diet Coke as they scurried away.
His narcissistic injury must be yuge. I hope it was. (Though we’ll all pay for it soon, this image is worth it.)
(e come to think of it, we’d be better off if he had an actual jester. I totally get the point of them now.)
come to think of it, we’d be better off if he had an actual jester. I totally get the point of them now.
Maybe that's what Elon was for. Unfortunately he sucked at his job.
The Jester is supposed to make the king giddy, not to be giddy himself. Apparently it was a bona fide career with skills – two things Elon can only pretend to understand.
They're probably including people watching online or on TV. Which makes those numbers even more pathetic.
Yeah compared to a grassroots risky protest against a militant wannabe dictator with the morning starting off with political murders by the opponent.
I saw all kinds of people protesting in the least likely areas. One image burned into my brain from Saturday was a solemn older couple, walking alone, she hunched over with a walker, him walking beside her, with a no kings sign and a billowing American flag in the sunlight. I was afraid to protest and almost started crying when I drove by.
I will NEVER forget that sight.
They know it was barely 20.000. they know. They could never admit it ofcourse.
And the "not admitting and not wanting to be truthfull" is the whole problem.
I'm afraid it might mean that the next demonstration will need to become slightly more forcefull. And more forcefull after that.
Right until they acknowledge the legitimate concerns... Or they are removed...
I heard it was only 8647 people that showed......
/s
If you subtract the military personal who were ordered to attend, that sounds like a very reasonable guess. Maybe they could get swag like the 1%ers. Hats and T-shirts with "I'm one of the 8647 TRUE Americans!"
Somebody please do this.
Apparently 90% of Trump parade's attendees were wearing very good camoflage, or maybe advanced army stealth technology!
Bots have a hard time with in person events it seems
Personal cloaking devices.
The crowd for trump’s parade didn’t even top 10,000 people
I doubt those numbers for the simple reason trump always lies about how many attended his narcissistic supply events.
When Trump says something important and really lays it on, that's how you can tell the opposite is true.
That isn't just a trump thing. Projection is how you tell what they are up to. If they are talking about the election getting stolen you know that is what they are doing and so on.
I'm too lazy to find it but insert Nelson ha-ha gif here
See. This is what we need. People helping people.
Looks like there's a lot more real Americans than traitors in this country.
Time to take the gloves off and let them know it.
Shame they didn't show up in November last year.
More than 10 times ? Good for No Kings.
How many of them were there willingly?
Like that even matters to rapists.
Or for free, I’m sure many of them will be crying when Trump doesn’t pay the thousand bucks
How many were there who weren't either paid or coerced to attend?
That has way less views than even an old episode of "Friends".
And Trump is an uncurable liar. So how many actually attended?
Sadly proper estimates seem to be lacking, but looking at crowd images, it can't be more than a few thousand. Maybe 10k-20k if you're being really generous. As one commenter put it, "It's not a big crowd if you've got room to throw a football without annoying anyone."
8500
8647
What a surprise, he and his people inflate the numbers. Surprised they didn't say, "Largest attendance for a military parade in history!"
Wikipedia says no kings had 13 million
Weird interpretation of “over 5 million”
Edit: elsewhere in the Wikipedia article it says “4-6”. Not seeing anything like 13
The edit log for that page is already around 1500 entries by the look of it? So it would not surprise me if there was an edit to 13, then a few minutes later a reversion or additional edit.
This is such a historical protest
I didn't realise most of the people who attended were microscopic! So that's why they weren't visible
That amount of people reminds me of the Mexican independence parades done in Mexico yearly. Usually those parades have much more people density.
The "No Kings" events drew A LOT more than 4 million.
G. Elliot Morris on Bluesky did a breakdown of the numbers and his very conservative, low-end number was 4mil. Top end was 6mil.
What's his methodology?
Highest estimate I've heard is 13M. Can't back it up, but I wouldn't be surprised. There were 100 in my little town, and we got way more honks of support than rude fingers.
2 Million is a huge difference
With a U.S. population of 340.11 million (Wikipedia number) that's 1.18 - 1.76%. That's... pretty pathetic considering what was being protested.
1 - 2 people out of every 100 in America stand against fascism, the rest... who knows?
Edit: at this rate more Americans will have downvoted my comments than bothered to say they're opposed to fascism. No wonder you elected a reality TV star with mush for brains as your leader. Well done, you took to the streets, but not enough of you, not while you're still free to do so. Get good or suffer the consequences. You've seen what's coming, do something about it. If only 1-2 out of 100 of you can be arsed to say no, then the jackboots will take that as a green light to do what they want. After that, getting more numbers to show up will become increasingly difficult. Now is your chance, seize it while you still can. Don't just clap yourself on the back, say "well done, we showed them" and go back to your day job as if life is back to normal. Do as the French do, keep protesting until your demands are met.
Source? Everything I read said 4-5 iirc
50501 has reported
1112.1 Million.ETA Source: https://50501.chat/post/338144
Just the multiplier alone - take any individual protest and multiply it by over 2,000 … gets big fast.
I actually had five very convenient choices
People in my town did a thing then headed down to Philly as a crew
Even Salem had a huge crowd, and I was there at 10am - people started walking with signs.
The magic number to reach the 3.5% "Tipping Point" is about 12 million. We didn't hit that on No Kings day, but we did pretty well. With protests scattered around the country, it's hard to have an accurate count, but the massive crowds in large cities across America have to be intimidating to the MAGA Nazis.
It's important to understand that while they want to have 12 million VISIBLE protesters, there are MANY more resistors at home who would never attend a protest for various reasons. Those people are still resistors in their own way, even if it's just staying free of conservative propaganda and voting Democrat. Then there are people like me, who are unlikely to go to a demonstration, but actively oppose the MAGA Nazis online, in forums like Lemmy.
Add the keyboard warriors to the physical protesters, and that 3.5%/ 12 million Tipping Point looks a lot closer.