No, it was way more than 50. I was there. Not as a Trump supporter, just to observe. I was there from slightly before noon to slightly after 1 p.m., at the Columbus Circle location. I didn’t go on the march, and I see from the Village Voice photos and others that there were Trump supporters at the Fifth Avenue tower.
I originally posted yesterday that the crowd was around 2,000 by my best guess, but after reading several lower estimates and looking at the crowd pictures, I think my estimate was high. There were at least 500, though.
The Socialists were the first to arrive, already handing out their literature as they crossed Broadway from the subway. The rest trickled in slowly, and that may have been the reason for the low estimates: lazy reporters who didn’t feel like sticking around.
Of the 500 people how many were professional leftist operatives, how many were just curiosity seekers, many were Trump supporters and how many were honest citizens who actually believed the “Trump is a racist” garbage.