Daily Show host destroys Trump’s claim his Jan 6 crowd rivaled MLK Jr’s March on Washington

The Daily Show host has destroyed Donald Trump’s wild claim that the crowd of supporters who flocked to see him speak on January 6 rivaled the crowd that turned out to hear Martin Luther King Jr’s iconic “I have a dream” speech during the March on Washington.

On Thursday, Trump held a press conference at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, as his campaign seeks to try to grab the spotlight from Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.

During the lie-filled briefing, Trump made a series of false and wild claims – with one in particular raising eyebrows: his boast he has drawn in crowds comparable to MLK Jr.

“I’ve spoken to the biggest crowds. Nobody has spoken to bigger crowds than me,” Trump claimed.

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.

“When he did his speech, his great speech, and you look at ours, same real estate, same everything. You look at it and you look at the picture of his crowd, my crowd – we actually had more people,” he claimed.

MLK Jr’s iconic speech during the 1963 March on Washington drew in an estimated 250,000 people.

By contrast, an estimated 53,000 people attended Trump’s speech on January 6 2021, according to the House Select Committee investigation.

Harris and Walz meanwhile have been enjoying the wave of their campaign, filling venues to capacity across the country. More than 12,000 people attended their first joint event in Philadelphia on Tuesday.

Trump’s wild boast came about when a reporter brought up the large crowds that Harris is drawing in to her campaign events.

“Oh give me a break,” he fumed.

On Thursday night’s The Daily Show, Michael Kosta pulled