evidence: Regardless, the part of Trump’s response in which he compares his crowd to King’s is flatly incorrect. Yes, King’s speech did include a large crowd that occupied some of the "same real estate" — the space between the Washington Monument and the White House. You can see it in the photo below, from the Library of Congress. [...] It doesn’t really matter. After all, you will recall that King spoke not from the Ellipse south of the White House but from the Lincoln Memorial. The distance between the Washington Monument and where Trump spoke on Jan. 6, 2021, was about a third of a mile. The distance between the Washington Monument and where King spoke is about three-quarters of a mile, more than twice as long — and was packed with people. [...] What people remember from Jan. 6 isn’t that there were hundreds of thousands of people at his speech, since that’s an exaggeration. What they remember instead is the thousands who swarmed Capitol Hill and the nearly 1,500 (as of writing) who would ultimately face federal charges for participating in the riot.