PoliticsDonald TrumpPolitics and GovernmentWhite House

Kayleigh McEnany Breaks White House Whopper Record With MAGA Crowd Tally

She was only off by about 980,000.
Mary Papenfuss
By 

Trends Reporter, HuffPost

LOADINGERROR LOADING

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany spectacularly broke the White House fib meter in an administration with an astounding reputation for lies. She gushed Saturday that the “Million MAGA March” in Washington to protest President Donald Trump’s election loss had more than a million marchers.

She was only off by some 980,000 people — and that’s being generous. Most estimates in the media were “thousands.” The Washington Post characterized McEnany’s tweet as “ludicrous.”

The National Park Service issued a permit to march organizers for 10,000 people in Freedom Plaza, where participants gathered, DCist reported. The plaza’s maximum capacity is 13,900.

Trump’s own estimate of the crowd size was initially “hundreds of thousands.” He later referred in a tweet to “tens of thousands.”

Twitter critics’ collective jaw dropped. They wondered if the same math was being used to figure Trump’s imagined votes.

Before You Go

LOADINGERROR LOADING
|
Submit a tip

Popular in the Community

Close

What's Hot