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Claim: Says his Jan. 6, 2021, speech on the White House Ellipse drew the “same number of people,” as the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech. (Donald Trump, 2024-08-08)
Evidence (2021-01-11): TRUMP: Media will not show the magnitude of this crowd. Even I, when I turned on today, I looked, and I saw thousands of people here, but you don’t see hundreds of thousands of people behind you because they don’t want to show that. We have hundreds of thousands of people here, and I just want them to be recognized by the fake news media. Turn your cameras, please, and show what is really happening out here, because these people are not going to take it any longer, they’re not going to take it any longer.1 1 Trump's speech begins with a suggestion that his supporters -- whose numbers he vastly overstates as being in the hundreds of thousands -- are "not going to take it any longer." The speech ahead will be littered with references to the idea that his movement is in a desperate moment.
Claim: Says his Jan. 6, 2021, speech on the White House Ellipse drew the “same number of people,” as the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech. (Donald Trump, 2024-08-08)
Evidence (2021-01-06): Trump's Jan. 6 Rally Speech 2021-01-06T08:28:47-05:00 https://ximage.c-spanvideo.org/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwaWN0dXJlcy5jLXNwYW52aWRlby5vcmciLCJrZXkiOiJGaWxlc1wvN2U5XC8yMDIxMDEwNjEyMTEzOTAxNF9oZC5qcGciLCJlZGl0cyI6eyJyZXNpemUiOnsiZml0IjoiY292ZXIiLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ4MH19fQ==? [...] Note: Because of audio difficulties with the president’s microphone, there was no audio during the first 38 seconds of his remarks. close [...] During a rally on the Ellipse near the White House, President Trump calls on Vice President Pence to stand up and stop t… - 32 seconds - 4,612 views
Claim: Says his Jan. 6, 2021, speech on the White House Ellipse drew the “same number of people,” as the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech. (Donald Trump, 2024-08-08)
Evidence (2024-08-08): Trump compares Jan. 6 crowd to MLK’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech by Brett Samuels - 08/08/24 3:15 PM ET by Brett Samuels - 08/08/24 3:15 PM ET Former President Trump bragged Thursday that the crowd he addressed on Jan. 6, 2021, was the largest he’s ever spoken to and argued those who were arrested after storming the Capitol were being treated "very unfairly." [...] "The biggest crowd I’ve ever spoken before was that day," he continued. "And I’ll tell you, it’s very hard to find a picture of that crowd. … 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, if not, we had more."
Claim: Says his Jan. 6, 2021, speech on the White House Ellipse drew the “same number of people,” as the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech. (Donald Trump, 2024-08-08)
Evidence (2024-08-08): The House select committee that investigated the events of Jan. 6, 2021, estimated 53,000 people attended President Donald Trump’s speech at the White House Ellipse. [...] Describing his speech to supporters on Jan. 6, 2021, Trump said he spoke to the "same number of people, if not, we had more" than King’s 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech. The crowd-size comparison is wrong. Credible estimates say many more people attended the 1963 March on Washington during King’s speech than attended Trump’s Ellipse speech.
Claim: Says his Jan. 6, 2021, speech on the White House Ellipse drew the “same number of people,” as the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech. (Donald Trump, 2024-08-08)
Evidence (2024-08-09): THE FACTS: Trump was comparing the crowd at his speech in front of the White House on Jan. 6, 2021, to the crowd that attended Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous "I Have a Dream" speech on Aug. 28, 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial. [...] Approximately 250,000 people attended the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, at which King gave his speech, according to the National Park Service. The Associated Press reported in 2021 that there were at least 10,000 people at Trump’s address. [...] An earlier version of this story mixed up "latter" and "former" in the third paragraph. Martin Luther King Jr.’s "I Have a Dream" speech on Aug. 28, 1963, drew a far larger crowd than Donald Trump’s speech near the White House on Jan. 6, 2021.
Claim: Says his Jan. 6, 2021, speech on the White House Ellipse drew the “same number of people,” as the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech. (Donald Trump, 2024-08-08)
Evidence (2024-08-08): Trump compares Jan. 6 crowd size to MLK march [...] Trump bragging about the size of his January 6th crowd! Saying his January 6th insurrection speech had more people than MLK Jr.'s "I Have a Dream Speech". [...] Donald Trump just said that he had a bigger crowd on January 6 than Dr. Martin Luther King did when he delivered "I Have A Dream."
Claim: Says his Jan. 6, 2021, speech on the White House Ellipse drew the “same number of people,” as the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech. (Donald Trump, 2024-08-08)
Evidence (2024-08-09): THE FACTS: Trump was comparing the crowd at his speech in front of the White House on Jan. 6, 2021, to the crowd that attended Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous "I Have a Dream" speech on Aug. 28, 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial. [...] Approximately 250,000 people attended the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, at which King gave his speech, according to the National Park Service. The Associated Press reported in 2021 that there were at least 10,000 people at Trump’s address. [...] An earlier version of this story mixed up "latter" and "former" in the third paragraph. Martin Luther King Jr.’s "I Have a Dream" speech on Aug. 28, 1963, drew a far larger crowd than Donald Trump's speech near the White House on Jan. 6, 2021.
Claim: Says his Jan. 6, 2021, speech on the White House Ellipse drew the “same number of people,” as the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech. (Donald Trump, 2024-08-08)
Evidence (2024-08-09): Later Trump would claim that the crowd he drew to the ellipse outside the White House on Jan. 6, 2021, was the largest crowd that ever assembled on the National Mall, including the crowd that attended the March on Washington and heard the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous "I Have A Dream" speech in 1963. [...] "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 … if you look at the picture of his crowd and my crowd, we actually had more. They said I had 25,000 people and he had a million people. I’m okay with it, because I liked Dr. Martin Luther King." [...] "If you look at Jan. 6, which a lot of people are not talking about very much, I think those people were treated harshly when you compare them to other things that took place in this country where a lot of people were killed," he said. "Nobody was killed on Jan. 6. I think the people of Jan. 6 were treated very unfairly. They were there to complain about an election."
Claim: Says his Jan. 6, 2021, speech on the White House Ellipse drew the “same number of people,” as the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech. (Donald Trump, 2024-08-08)
Evidence (2024-08-08): Regardless, the part of Trump’s response in which he compares his crowd to King’s is flatly incorrect. Yes, King’s speech did include a large crowd that occupied some of the "same real estate" — the space between the Washington Monument and the White House. You can see it in the photo below, from the Library of Congress. [...] It doesn’t really matter. After all, you will recall that King spoke not from the Ellipse south of the White House but from the Lincoln Memorial. The distance between the Washington Monument and where Trump spoke on Jan. 6, 2021, was about a third of a mile. The distance between the Washington Monument and where King spoke is about three-quarters of a mile, more than twice as long — and was packed with people. [...] What people remember from Jan. 6 isn’t that there were hundreds of thousands of people at his speech, since that’s an exaggeration. What they remember instead is the thousands who swarmed Capitol Hill and the nearly 1,500 (as of writing) who would ultimately face federal charges for participating in the riot.
Claim: Says his Jan. 6, 2021, speech on the White House Ellipse drew the “same number of people,” as the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech. (Donald Trump, 2024-08-08)
Evidence (2024-08-12): Trump has boasted about crowds at his rallies in recent days. At a news conference on Thursday, the Republican presidential nominee said he thought that more people attended his speech in front of the Ellipse near the White House on Jan. 6, 2021, than Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963. Trump acknowledged official estimates showed King had a larger crowd size. According to the National Park Service, approximately 250,000 people attended the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, where King spoke. Approximately 53,000 people attended Trump's speech on Jan. 6, 2021, according to the House Select Committee that investigated the assault on the Capitol that took place later that day. "Nobody has spoken to crowds bigger than me," Trump said.
Claim: Says his Jan. 6, 2021, speech on the White House Ellipse drew the “same number of people,” as the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech. (Donald Trump, 2024-08-08)
Evidence (2024-08-08): Trump just favorably compared his January 6 rally to Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech. You read that right. [...] After incorrectly claiming that "no one was killed on January 6th," Trump went on to gloat that the crowd at his insurrection rally was larger than the March On Washington, which Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic speech at the Lincoln Memorial. [...] Growing ever more furious at this perceived slight, Trump began throwing (made up) numbers around. King, he said, spoke to a million (actually 250,000) people. But, according to Trump, the January 6th crowd actually looks just as big in photographs as King’s! and yet the biased experts insist that only spoke to 25,000 would-be insurrectionists and rioters (actually 10,000).
Claim: Says his Jan. 6, 2021, speech on the White House Ellipse drew the “same number of people,” as the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech. (Donald Trump, 2024-08-08)
Evidence (2024-08-08): Trump compares Jan. 6 crowd size to MLK march "MLK's speech was about democracy. Trump's was about tearing it down," the NAACP said after Donald Trump compared the size of the Jan. 6, 2021 rally crowd to MLK's historic March on Washington. Former President Donald Trump has social media comparing photos and looking in history books after he claimed the crowd during his Jan. 6, 2021, "Stop the Steal" Rally was bigger than the estimated crowd of 250,000 who attended Martin Luther King Jr.'s March on Washington. [...] The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) responded to Trump's claims on X, saying, "Donald Trump just said that he had a bigger crowd on January 6 than Dr. Martin Luther King did when he delivered 'I Have A Dream.' ...Not only is that completely false, but here’s what is more important: MLK’s speech was about democracy. Trump’s was about tearing it down."
Claim: Says his Jan. 6, 2021, speech on the White House Ellipse drew the “same number of people,” as the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech. (Donald Trump, 2024-08-08)
Evidence (2022-02-11): More than 3,000 members of the press covered this historic march, where Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered the exalted "I Have a Dream" speech. [...] – I Have a Dream, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. [...] Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered this iconic 'I Have a Dream' speech at the March on Washington on August 28, 1963. See entire text of King's speech below.
Claim: Says his Jan. 6, 2021, speech on the White House Ellipse drew the “same number of people,” as the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech. (Donald Trump, 2024-08-08)
Evidence (2024-08-09): During a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago Club on Aug. 8, 2024, former U.S. President Donald Trump claimed the crowd during his speech at the Ellipse in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021, was larger than the number of people who gathered for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on Aug. 28, 1963. [...] The March on Washington in 1963 drew crowds estimated at more than 200,000 people. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University published the number of "more than 200,000 demonstrators." The National Park Service reported "an estimated 250,000 people" attended the march. Meanwhile, the NAACP said "the rally drew over 260,000 people from across the nation." [...] As for Trump's speech on the Ellipse on Jan. 6, no credible estimates came close to that of King's.
Claim: Says his Jan. 6, 2021, speech on the White House Ellipse drew the “same number of people,” as the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech. (Donald Trump, 2024-08-08)
Evidence (2024-08-08): Trump acknowledged that official estimates put his crowd size as smaller than King's, but he said he thought he had "more people." [...] The congressional Jan. 6 committee pegged Trump’s crowd at 53,000 people, about one-fifth of the 250,000 who were estimated to be at King’s famous address from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. The NAACP on Thursday posted photos from both days on X and said of Trump's crowd comparison: "Not only is that completely false, but here’s what is more important: MLK’s speech was about democracy. Trump’s was about tearing it down."
Claim: Says his Jan. 6, 2021, speech on the White House Ellipse drew the “same number of people,” as the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech. (Donald Trump, 2024-08-08)
Evidence (2024-08-09): Daily Show host destroys Trump’s claim his Jan 6 crowd rivaled MLK Jr’s March on Washington [...] The former president then compared MLK Jr’s famous "I Have a Dream" speech to his speech on 6 January 2021, just before his supporters stormed the US Capitol. [...] MLK Jr’s iconic speech during the 1963 March on Washington drew in an estimated 250,000 people.
Claim: Says his Jan. 6, 2021, speech on the White House Ellipse drew the “same number of people,” as the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech. (Donald Trump, 2024-08-08)
Evidence (2022-06-20): He started off by calling the January 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol a "simple protest that got out of hand." Trump then said "that was the largest crowd that I have ever spoken to … that was a crowd where there was unbelievable love and patriotism in the air." (He repeated his claim about the crowd being the biggest crowd he had ever spoken to no fewer than three times.) [...] According to the National Archives, more than 250,000 demonstrators attended the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom that King spoke at in 1963. The crowd for Trump’s speech is harder to pin down – largely because Trump so politicized crowd counts. There’s no question there were thousands of people there, but it seem very unlikely that the crowd rivaled that of King. And even less likely that there were 1 million or more people on the mall that July day.
Claim: Says the Wyoming State Parks Department said it “discovered what looks like a giant root system stemming from the base of the Devils Tower.” (Facebook posts, 2021-07-06)
Evidence (2021-07-06): This claim originated as satire. Geologists say Devils Tower is formed of a rare igneous rock called phonolite porphyry.
Claim: Says the Wyoming State Parks Department said it “discovered what looks like a giant root system stemming from the base of the Devils Tower.” (Facebook posts, 2021-07-06)
Evidence (2012-09-26): By Tom Kertscher• April 21, 2021 Survival International stated on April 22, 2021 in a website press release: With the goal to preserve 30% of the earth’s land and water by 2030, "300 million people stand to lose their land and livelihood, most of them tribal and indigenous peoples." By Jon Greenberg• May 7, 2021 Facebook posts stated on July 06, 2021 in a Facebook post: Says the Wyoming State Parks Department said it "discovered what looks like a giant root system stemming from the base of the Devils Tower." By Ciara O'Rourke• July 8, 2021 Bloggers stated on February 24, 2020 in a post on Facebook: "Cuba has a lung cancer vaccine we in the US had no access to because we sanctioned Cuba." By Jon Greenberg• March 4, 2020 Viral image stated on June 26, 2019 in a Facebook post: Says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez "weeps over empty parking lot." By Ciara O'Rourke, Stefanie Pousoulides• July 22, 2019 Ryan Zinke stated on March 13, 2018 in testimony before a Senate committee: A Trump administration proposal for the Interior Department "is the largest investment in our public lands infrastructure in our nation's history."
Claim: Says the Wyoming State Parks Department said it “discovered what looks like a giant root system stemming from the base of the Devils Tower.” (Facebook posts, 2021-07-06)
Evidence (2017-08-09): A huge and startling discovery has been made at the Devils Tower in Wyoming. Scientists from the Wyoming State Parks Department were conducting photographic seismic readings below the tower, when they discovered an incredibly large petrified root system below the tower. The parks department released a statement saying, "We have discovered, what looks like a giant root system stemming from the base of The Devils Tower. The root system has been measured at 4 miles deep by 7 miles wide. We are currently conducting studies and tests to confirm that this is actually a root system and not a coincidence." This discovery is on the edge of rewriting history and science as we know it.
Claim: Says the Wyoming State Parks Department said it “discovered what looks like a giant root system stemming from the base of the Devils Tower.” (Facebook posts, 2021-07-06)
Evidence (2024-04-19): The Devils Tower, aka The Tree Of Life, in Wyoming, doesn’t seem to be a natural mesarelief in plateau but a gigantic tree whose wood has been petrified long ago. An immense root network would have been discovered at its base. I’ve gone through the web, Graham Hancock and other reliable researchers do share this info. But no one confirms a reliable source, so doubt remains. [...] A huge and startling discovery has been made at the Devils Tower in Wyoming. Scientists from the Wyoming State Parks Department were conducting photographic seismic readings below the tower, when they discovered an incredibly large petrified root system below the tower. The parks department released a statement saying, "We have discovered, what looks like a giant root system stemming from the base of The Devils Tower. The root system has been measured at 4 miles deep by 7 miles wide. We are currently conducting studies and tests to confirm that this is actually a root system and not a coincidence." This discovery is on the edge of rewriting history and science as we know it.
Claim: Says the Wyoming State Parks Department said it “discovered what looks like a giant root system stemming from the base of the Devils Tower.” (Facebook posts, 2021-07-06)
Evidence (2020-08-26): Devils Tower merupakan formasi bebatuan, bukan pohon purba. Gambar akar yang disertakan dalam postingan merupakan gambar perakaran jagung manis berusia 8 minggu. [...] A huge and startling discovery has been made at the Devils Tower in Wyoming. Scientists from the Wyoming State Parks Department were conducting photographic seismic readings below the tower, when they discovered an incredibly large petrified root system below the tower. The parks department released a statement saying, "We have discovered, what looks like a giant root system stemming from the base of The Devils Tower. The root system has been measured at 4 miles deep by 7 miles wide. We are currently conducting studies and tests to confirm that this is actually a root system and not a coincidence." This discovery is on the edge of rewriting history and science as we know it. [...] Akun Facebook ALIEN Strand membagikan dua gambar dengan narasi yang menyebutkan Devils Tower yang ada di Wyoming, Amerika Serikat merupakan sebuah pohon purba. Postingan itu sudah dibagikan sebanyak 74 kali dan mendapat respon 146 buah.
Claim: Says the Wyoming State Parks Department said it “discovered what looks like a giant root system stemming from the base of the Devils Tower.” (Facebook posts, 2021-07-06)
Evidence (2020-08-22): A viral Facebook post shared over 1,500 times claims scientists discovered that the Devils Tower rock formation in Wyoming was originally a giant tree. [...] The post claims that scientists discovered Devils Tower was originally a giant tree after "conducting photographic seismic readings" that allegedly revealed an "incredibly large petrified root system" underneath the butte. It further alleges that the Wyoming State Parks Department put out a statement announcing the supposed discovery. [...] "We have discovered, what looks like a giant root system stemming from the base of The Devils Tower," reads the purported statement from the Wyoming State Parks Department. "The root system has been measured at 4 miles deep by 7 miles wide."
Claim: Says the Wyoming State Parks Department said it “discovered what looks like a giant root system stemming from the base of the Devils Tower.” (Facebook posts, 2021-07-06)
Evidence (2021-07-08): Was a massive root system discovered under Devils Tower in Wyoming? There is no "incredibly large petrified root system" under Devils Tower in Wyoming, contrary to a social media post. [...] The post claimed scientists from the Wyoming State Parks Department had discovered the purported root system. But Devils Tower is a designated national monument, not a state park.
Claim: Says the Wyoming State Parks Department said it “discovered what looks like a giant root system stemming from the base of the Devils Tower.” (Facebook posts, 2021-07-06)
Evidence (2024-10-03): Devils Tower (also known as Bear Lodge)[8] is a butte, possibly laccolithic, composed of igneous rock in the Bear Lodge Ranger District of the Black Hills, near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County, northeastern Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River. It rises 1,267 feet (386 m) above the Belle Fourche River, standing 867 feet (264 m) from summit to base. The summit is 5,112 feet (1,558 m) above sea level. [...] As rain and snow continue to erode the sedimentary rocks surrounding the Tower's base, more of Devils Tower will be exposed. Nonetheless, the exposed portions of the Tower still experience certain amounts of erosion. Cracks along the columns are subject to water and ice erosion. Portions, or even entire columns, of rock at Devils Tower are continually breaking off and falling. Piles of broken columns, boulders, small rocks, and stones, called scree, lie at the base of the tower, indicating that it was once wider than it is today.[17]