Dr. Martin Luther King’s daughter, Bernice King, always has time to remind y’all to put some respect on her father’s name and legacy. So when it came to former President Donald Trump recently comparing the size of his crowd to MLK’s during his speech at the March on Washington, King was quick to step to him.
“Nobody’s spoken to crowds bigger than me,” Trump said during his press conference at Mar-a-Lago. “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,” he insisted.
Driving his delusions further, the GOP nominee went on to say “...look at it, and you look at the picture of his crowd, my crowd, we actually had more people.” Before concluding, Trump made it known that he “likes” Dr. King which is why he’s “okay” with people saying he only “had 25,000, and he [MLK] had a million people. All of it false.
According to Business Insider, MLK’s 1963 “I Have A Dream” speech drew an estimated 250,000 people to Washington, D.C. Trump’s “Stop the Steal” speech, according to USA Today, garnered about 53,000 in the crowd.
Per usual, Trump’s remarks sparked a tidal wave of reactions on social media, but the person everyone was waiting to hear from was none other than Dr. King’s youngest child.
In a quoted tweet, King responded “Absolutely not true.” She continued saying “I really wish that people would stop using my father to support fallacy.” To add flare to her remarks, King posted a picture of her father which many online have used as a reaction meme.
Flabbergasted by Trump’s claims, even the NAACP had to step in to give 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 “...here’s what is more important: MLK’s speech was about democracy. Trump’s was about tearing it down.”
Quickly following the former president’s press conference, the hashtag #TrumpMeltdown began trending on X. The press conference was his first since Democratic nominee Kamala Harris announced Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate.