"Smart analysis of the No Kings protests estimates roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across America yesterday."

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Matt McDermott
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Smart analysis of the No Kings protests estimates roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across America yesterday. The anti-Trump resistance is unprecedented, and exceeds his first term.

https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/no-kings-day-protests-turn-out-millions

June 15, 2025 at 8:27 AM

Smart analysis of the No Kings protests estimates roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across America yesterday. The anti-Trump resistance is unprecedented, and exceeds his first term.

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/no-kings-d...

— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm.bsky.social) 2025-06-15T12:27:56.906Z

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Some substacker said 12.1 million but shows no homework and no reference

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220400310

[displacedvermoter]

2. I thought it was 12.1 million

Quite a difference, right?

[SheltieLover]

5. Downplaying it so as to not hurt toddler's fefes

[stillcool]

3. I do like that they explain

 

As of midnight on Sunday, June 15, we have data from about 40% of No Kings Day events held yesterday, accounting for over 2.6m attendees. According to our back-of-the-envelope math, that puts total attendance somewhere in the 4-6 million people range. That means roughly 1.2-1.8% of the U.S. population attended a No Kings Day event somewhere in the country yesterday. Organizers say 5m turned out, but don’t release public event-by-event numbers.
Of course, crowdsourcing data isn’t perfect; some local reports may be inflated, and others undercounted. And the formula we use to project attendance in places where we don’t have data assumes they are similar to the places where we do. That’s a necessary assumption, but an assumption nonetheless.

So this is by no means an official tally. But we do think it’s the most comprehensive tally currently available. Hundreds of data-gatherers have been compiling accounts of event attendance and checking them against available sources since Saturday morning. From a journalism perspective, this approach at least standardizes measurement and provides references to check our math, even if it doesn’t completely avoid the usual pitfalls of estimating crowd size (or the assumptions above). But in this case, we’re interested in speed and thoroughness, not perfection.

[Quiet Em]

4. Whether it was 4-6 million or 12 million

It was the largest protest I have ever participated in. The attendance at my local No Kings was stunning. It definitely surpasssed the Woman's March of 2017.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. Less than 8700 attended trump's parade

Even with paid attendees, this is a lousy turnout

[kentuck]

7. 86-47?

Hmmmm..

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. Even NewsMax has the attendance at less than 10,000

Link to tweet

[LetMyPeopleVote]

12. This made me smile

[Brother Buzz]

8. To put things in perspective, the entire DC crowd would have been lost in the Los Angles 100,000+ No Kings march

[mahatmakanejeeves]

10. "... [F]olks like this account. But this is a wild, and unhelpful, exaggeration .... a resistance version of sean spicer."

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account)
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I know a lot of folks like this account. But this is a wild, and unhelpful, exaggeration--it's a resistance version of sean spicer. It veers into #resistanceporn and trades accuracy for clout, like other "blue maga" grifters on here. Pls consider finding other sources of inspiration/news/motivation
Post from "alt national park service" account reading "From coast to coast, city streets to small town squares, you showed up. And it mattered. Honored to announce: 12.1 million in attendance."
The 12.1 million figure is 300 percent more than every estimate produced by experts and scholars who carefully went through nationwide reports.
ALT
June 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM

I know a lot of folks like this account. But this is a wild, and unhelpful, exaggeration--it's a resistance version of sean spicer. It veers into #resistanceporn and trades accuracy for clout, like other "blue maga" grifters on here. Pls consider finding other sources of inspiration/news/motivation

— Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) (@thetattooedprof.bsky.social) 2025-06-15T18:02:11.097Z

[mahatmakanejeeves]

11. "... can't believe this still needs to be said, but: stop following altNPS."

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Aves Maria
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can’t believe this still needs to be said, but: stop following altNPS. none of them work for the NPS and they exist to do Qanon numbers station crap and sell merch. it’s annoying for a lot of us that are actually NPS. thanks

‪Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account)‬
‪@thetattooedprof.bsky.social‬
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I know a lot of folks like this account. But this is a wild, and unhelpful, exaggeration--it's a resistance version of sean spicer. It veers into #resistanceporn and trades accuracy for clout, like other "blue maga" grifters on here. Pls consider finding other sources of inspiration/news/motivation
Post from "alt national park service" account reading "From coast to coast, city streets to small town squares, you showed up. And it mattered. Honored to announce: 12.1 million in attendance."
The 12.1 million figure is 300 percent more than every estimate produced by experts and scholars who carefully went through nationwide reports.
ALT
June 15, 2025 at 3:33 PM

can’t believe this still needs to be said, but: stop following altNPS. none of them work for the NPS and they exist to do Qanon numbers station crap and sell merch. it’s annoying for a lot of us that are actually NPS. thanks

— Aves Maria (@avesmaria.bsky.social) 2025-06-15T19:33:58.660Z