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What I’m afraid of is that 50,000 people could show up and the media wouldn’t say a word about it, or they’d announce that 287 pro-Trump lunatics arrived, ranted, were laughed at, and went home.

That’s par for the course.

It’s shocking to me that this idea can be discussed with scarcely any reference to the fact that we “been there, done that” on 9/12/2009.
When we went there, I was expecting that it would be just, or mostly, a couple of hundred FReeper families. It wasn’t. I don’t know who organized that event, but it wasn’t just FReepers; when we got to the subway station to ride to the Mall the crowd was massive and the subway was free to ride because they could not otherwise process the crush of people. The upshot was that when we arrived at the nominal start time of the event, there was already a big crowd and many of us had not paraded down to where the speakers were to deliver their speeches.
People had arrived by the multiple busload, and when Dick Armey spoke he suggested the crowd was a million strong. And certainly our assemblage was in the same order of magnitude as the “Million Man March” crowd. And the media coverage? ~~There were news trucks and cameras everywhere~~. </sarcasm> There was not one news organization there. From what I saw, TV news reports barely, if at all, even alluded to it.
Rush Limbaugh mentioned it prospectively, and said that he would not attend because he didn’t want it to be dismissed as just his celebrity creating it - but he never mentioned how big it actually was, and apparently did not and does not know how big it actually was. Back then, Twitter was not even a thing. Today, any Tweet from President Trump gets more coverage than our whole assembly in the Washington Mall got.