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.
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.
Source? Everything I read said 4-5 iirc
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
- should I go into Boston for the big one, to really showcase our strength?
- should I goto Lexington for the historical context, the commemorating the start of the revolutionary war, throwing off the yoke of the king?
- should I goto my ex’s town, if she had the kids?
- should I goto the nearby town threats a collection of malls, make a day of it and get shopping done?
- no, I’ll goto to MY town, stand up with MY town. We had a couple thousand very enthusiastic protesters in MY town and it was awesome
Even Salem had a huge crowd, and I was there at 10am - people started walking with signs.
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
I did my part!
That’s genius lol
10x more people just trolling than actual attendees.
I’d almost bet they wanted the fake sign ups to happen too, just to have a fake number to point to. I do love the spirit of fucking with their resources though.
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’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
I doubt those numbers for the simple reason trump always lies about how many attended his narcissistic supply events.
More than 10 times ? Good for No Kings.
That has way less views than even an old episode of “Friends”.
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.
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.
