Dr. Martin Luther King’s daughter, Bernice King, always has time to remind you all to pay some respect to her father’s name and legacy. So when it came to the former president Donald Trump When King recently compared the size of those present to that of Martin Luther King during his speech at the March on Washington, he was quick to step in.
“No one has spoken to a larger audience than I have,” Trump said during his press conference at Mar-a-Lago. “If you look at Martin Luther King when he gave his speech, his big speech, and you look at ours, same property, same everything, same number of people. If not, we had more,” he insisted.
The Republican candidate took his delusions even further by saying, “…look at it and look at the picture of his people, my people, we were actually more people.” Before concluding, Trump said he “likes” Dr. King, which is why he is “okay” with people saying he only “had 25,000 people and he (MLK) had a million people.” All of this is false.
Accordingly Business InsiderMLK’s “I Have A Dream” speech in 1963 drew an estimated 250,000 people to Washington, DC Trump’s “Stop the Steal” speech, according to USA TodayAround 53,000 of his supporters gathered.
As usual, Trump’s remarks sparked a flood of reactions on social media, but the person everyone was waiting to respond to was none other than Dr. King’s youngest child.
In a quoted tweetKing responded, “Absolutely not true.” She continued, “I really wish people would stop using my father as evidence of error.” To add momentum to her remarks, King posted a picture of her father, which many online used as a reaction meme.
Even the NAACP had to step in and lay out the facts. They posted side-by-side pictures of Trump’s speech on the National Mall and Dr. King’s “I Have A Dream” speech. The account tweeted: “…and this is more important: MLK’s speech was about democracy. Trump’s speech was about tearing it down.”
Shortly after the former president’s press conference, the hashtag #TrumpMeltdown began trending on X. The press conference was his first since Democratic candidate Kamala Harris announced Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate.
