Digging into claims about crowd size at Trump's military parade

Digging into claims about crowd size at Trump's military parade

The White House and parade organizers said 250,000 people attended the June 14 event. Democratic figures and social media users disagreed.

Trump’s small crowd for his parade overshadowed by protests

Given the hellscape that is unfolding in the Middle East and the police state that the US has become (with the only good news being that India and Pakistan have pulled back from the threatened brink of a war), to talk about relative crowd sizes at the Trump parade and the No Kings protests seems trivial. But given Trump’s obsession with crowd sizes being a key marker of his popularity, I think it is worthwhile to needle him by pointing out that …