A Trump Boat Parade dubbed “Trumptilla” on Lake Murray, South Carolina last weekend brought an estimated 3,417 boats and more than 30,000 people: numbers that organizers say may have broken a boat parade world record.

Lake of the Ozarks had its own Trump parade on June 14, and it brought a sizeable number of sizeable boats, but the Trumptilla event on July 5 dwarfed it. According to a press release from event organizers, a third-party firm was used to compile the attendance numbers; they utilized drone footage, aerial photography, and GIS analytics to do so.

“The idea started after organizer, Jason Cline, saw a post about the Charleston, SC Trump Boat Parade,” read a press release sent out by Cline. “He put up a simple Facebook event page and overnight the event had over 2000 people interested. Final numbers had over 7500 saying they were coming or going. But even those numbers were off by 20,000+.”

“It was just incredible to see so many people turn out in support of President Trump,” Cline enthused. “With all of the negative news of COVID-19 and the burning, looting and violence that came with the protests, people wanted something positive that we could rally around. We had no idea we would receive such an overwhelmingly positive response.”

According to Guinness Book Of World Records, the world’s largest parade of boats was 1,180 boats at a parade in Malaysia, per the screenshot from Guinness website search results, below. However, the page for that result returns a 404 (Page Not Found) error. It may be that the page soon portrays the Lake Murray Trumptilla as the new record for “Largest parade of boats.”

Largest Parade of Boats - Guinness World Records Search Result - 7/8/2020

Lake Of The Ozarks Trump Parade Photos:

Trump Parade! Hundreds Of Boaters Fly Trump & U.S. Flags For Massive Lake Of The Ozarks Event [GALLERY I]

It was Trump’s birthday and Flag Day, on June 14, 2020, and boaters celebrated both, en masse, with a massive parade on Lake of the Ozarks. Onlookers estimate there were about 350 boats with U.S. and Trump flags participating in the event. Many boats had tubes in tow, and looked like they were headed out on the Lake for the day, after the parade.

Participants ate breakfast at Camden on the Lake, and then opened wide and roared up the Lake to Captain Ron’s: about a 27-mile trek. There were so many boats, some participants in smaller vessels said they had to bail out of the event before it was over, because of the heavy water churn in the midst of the parade.

This is Gallery I. Click here to view Gallery II.

Photos by Lake Shots Photography -- To purchase high-res photos, email the photo ID to lakeexpo@yahoo.com

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Trump Parade! Hundreds Of Boaters Fly Trump & U.S. Flags For Massive Lake Of The Ozarks Event [GALLERY II]

It was Trump’s birthday and Flag Day, on June 14, 2020, and boaters celebrated both, en masse, with a massive parade on Lake of the Ozarks. Onlookers estimate there were about 350 boats with U.S. and Trump flags participating in the event. Many boats had tubes in tow, and looked like they were headed out on the Lake for the day, after the parade.

Participants ate breakfast at Camden on the Lake, and then opened wide and roared up the Lake to Captain Ron’s: about a 27-mile trek. There were so many boats, some participants in smaller vessels said they had to bail out of the event before it was over, because of the heavy water churn in the midst of the parade.

This is Gallery II. Click here to view Gallery I.

Photos by Lake Shots Photography -- To purchase high-res photos, email the photo ID to lakeexpo@yahoo.com

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