Ex-RNC Chair Ridicules Donald Trump for MLK Jr. Crowd Size Claim [Video]

Michael Steele, former chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC), ridiculed former President Donald Trump on Saturday for his remarks comparing his crowd size to civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.‘s at a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

During his speech on Thursday, Trump, the GOP presidential candidate, claimed that more people were at the “Stop the Steal” rally on January 6, 2021, which preceded the U.S. Capitol riot to King Jr.‘s crowd size when he gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech at Washington’s Lincoln Memorial in 1963.

“Nobody’s spoken to crowds bigger than me. If you look at Martin Luther King, when he did his speech, his great speech, and you look at ours, same real estate, same everything, same number of people. If not, we had more. And they said he had a million people, but I had 25,000 people,” the former president said. “And I’m okay with it because I liked Dr. …