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5. Trump will eventually say the parade attendees numbered...
Sun Jun 15, 2025, 09:47 AM
Jun 15

.."hundreds of thousands." Just wait and see.

The most common technique for counting crowds at protests and rallies is Jacobs' method, named for its inventor, Herbert Jacobs. Jacobs' method involves dividing the area occupied by a crowd into sections, determining an average number of people in each section, and multiplying by the number


Trump uses the "Trump method" which is whatever number he wants it to be. Remember his description of the 2017 inaugural crowd? 1.5 million and it wasn't even close.

On Saturday, President Donald Trump excoriated the media for — in his view — massively understating the size of his inaugural crowds. “I turn on one of the networks, and they show an empty field,” Trump said at a speech Saturday afternoon at the CIA. “I’m like, wait a minute. I made a speech. I looked out, the field was, it looked like a million, million and a half people.”


https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/21/14347298/trump-inauguration-crowd-size

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