Best feeling ever. 43 years later and I can still remember the joy.

Again, I realize this is ChatGPT and it is often unreliable, but I checked some of the sources and it seems to be a good summary. (sorry to blow up the thread).

So, as of this morning, based on a mix of media assessments, eyewitness testimony, and crowd-visual analysis, the actual attendance at Trump’s 250th parade was far below the permit capacity, likely amounting to low tens of thousands, and quite possibly under 10,000.

Actual turnout appears to be in the low tens of thousands, with some sources suggesting it may have been under 10,000.

New York Magazine, eyewitness logs, & Reddit commentary align on describing the turnout as “thousands,” “far smaller than expected,” and “sparse”

Updated Estimate Summary
Early planning projections ranged from 50,000 (festival permit) to 200,000 (parade permit)
nypost.com
wtop.com
apnews.com

Time magazine / AP news describe the crowd as “tens of thousands” rather than hundreds of thousands .

A Facebook post (citing eye-witness accounts) indicated an estimated crowd of ~8,647 attendees. facebook.com

🎖 Parade Attendance (Washington, D.C.)
Associated Press notes that turnout “appeared to fall far short of early predictions that as many as 200,000 people would attend,” citing large empty gaps along the National Mall
foxnews.com
time.com
apnews.com
apnews.com

Hi, I checked ChatGPT again this morning. Here is the response:

More recent reports from June 15, 2025 now provide clearer — and significantly lower — attendance estimates for Trump’s 250th Army Parade:

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This is all I could get from searching the news and asking AI, so ymmv:

"Official permit capacity was for up to 200,000 attendees... No firm attendance figures released; media consistently referenced the 200,000 capacity as the benchmark."

Surely there will eventually be an actual estimate.

I do get annoyed with the purists but yeah, overall, it's a pretty chill place.

Everyone in my neighborhood is cutting grass - we've had endless rain - and is smells heavenly.