As far as I know, both numbers aren’t confirmed. We’re hearing 2k to 20k at Trump’s birthday party, and anywhere from 5m to 11m on protests. They’re still trying to tally and I only saw a 2m temporary number. That said, with Boston having like 1m apparently, it’ll probably be pretty big (they combined pride parade with it so it’s a like unclear how you’d count that)
A more fun way to look at it is, the army parade had most of it’s route at 1 row of viewers. That’s… really really bad attendance. Lol
Do you have a source of the numbers and not just the post where there’s also no source?
I thought most people weren’t protesting in DC?
They weren’t protesting at the parade, the no kings protest was huge there
I got him socks. What did you guys get for his bday?
Guillotine
A noose.
A voucher for a free dessert from the prison cafeteria.
Protests
Still 20k absolutely deranged crazy people who need to be on a list
They are on a list. We’re watching.
Where the hell did that 11M number come from?
Somehow that number started to spread on social media, but no proper news outlet is reporting that.
That said, the major cities all had crowds that dwarfed Trump’s General Aladeen themed birthday party.
no proper news outlet is reporting that.
And they probably won’t. The best we’ll get is watered-down slop or misreporting that frames the movement as small and unimportant.
It’s not in the interests of corporate media to accurately report on protests against the Trump administration. It might make some ad money in the short term, but it’s antithetical to the goals of both the owners and the corporations to piss off Trump:
- Republicans benefit the wealthy and corporations and they don’t bite the hand that feeds.
- The Trump administration has proven itself happy to retaliate against reporters and news agencies by banning them from press events.
- The billionaires who own them don’t want to anger the guy they’re buying favors from.
Alt National Park Service’s estimate:
We’re honored to report that over 11 million showed up for today’s No Kings protest, and totals are still coming in. Just… wow. WOW 😮! There’s nothing more to say.
https://bsky.app/profile/altnps.bsky.social/post/3lrmce3muts2c
EDIT: also organizers within 50501 estimate at >11 million (50501 is one of the groups/movements involved in the No Kings protests) https://bsky.app/profile/50501movement.bsky.social/post/3lrmozcmqx223
It’s probably made up. But I can see it as probable.
