Former President Donald Trump claimed Friday he once drew a bigger crowd than Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. throughout remarks in Nashville, Tennessee Friday.

The previous president addressed an target market for the annual Faith and Freedom Coalition conference.

At one point throughout remarks by which he railed in opposition to the Jan. 6 committee and claimed the 2020 election was once “rigged,” he spoke about crowd sizes.

In particular, Trump mentioned on July four, 2020, he drew more folks than King did all through his iconic 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech.

“They were there, and nobody ever mentions that, they by no means exhibit it,” Trump mentioned. “I even have never seen it on tv where they have a helicopter shot of Washington with numbers of, I gained’t say it, because if I say it okay, I’ll get wiped out. You realize, it’s very interesting. On July 4, I gave a speech two years in the past on the Mall and it was the same Mall [where Martin Luther King Jr gave his speech].”

Trump mentioned both settings had been identical, as both speeches had been delivered in the same vicinity. He persisted,

Dr. King gave a speech and it used to be great. The I had a dream speech. It was once nice. How just right used to be that? But they confirmed the image and it used to be massive, excellent numbers of people. They mentioned it was once 1,000,000 folks, 1,000,000 folks. And then I gave my speech they usually confirmed the same factor. It’s laborious to believe, many, many decades later, nevertheless it’s similar architecture, equivalent swimming pools.

Trump concluded his crowd was higher than King’s.

“So his, they stated, one million individuals,” Trump stated. “Now, my pictures have been precisely the same. However the people were relatively closer collectively. They have been extra compact, but exactly the identical. But there were extra individuals. They were tighter together if you happen to take a look at it.”

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