President Trump on Saturday floated the idea of his supporters gathering for a rally that would be “the biggest of them all.”
Taking to Twitter, the president tweeted: “Maybe the millions of people who voted to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN should have their own rally. It would be the biggest of them all!”
Maybe the millions of people who voted to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN should have their own rally. It would be the biggest of them all!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 25, 2017
Throughout his campaign, Trump touted the size of the crowds he could draw at his rallies, which often dwarfed the size of his competitor’s events.
Trump later blamed the media for underreporting the size of his inauguration crowd on Jan. 20, which one week later was compared to the size of the Women’s March on Washington. Organizers estimate about 500,000 people attended the march in D.C., while over a million participated in similar marches across the world.
“Watched protests yesterday but was under the impression that we just had an election! Why didn’t these people vote? Celebs hurt cause badly,” Trump tweeted at the time.
Trump’s comment Saturday also follows weeks of nationwide demonstrations, many of which protested the president’s executive order that temporarily banned refugees and blocked immigrants from several Muslim-majority countries with high-terror risk.
