Compare to the 12-15 MILLION protesters at the No Kings rallies at 2,000 cities across the US. More people (100,000+) at EACH of the 5-10 largest rallies than in DC. Here's an aerial video of the crowd in Philly (4th largest rally) that I attended. The river of people just kept coming and coming, for over an hour. See my slideshow.
The major broadcast networks carried the large protest rallies, but didn't bother with Trump's parade. They sent all of their reporters to where the action was. CNN and MSNBC covered both of them, on and off. Along with the Middle East and Minnesota news. Fox News was all in for the parade at first, but even THEY lost interest when it turned out to be a nothingburger. At the end of the day, they summarized it all with an article entitled "No Kings protest crowds: Millions show up across US, organizers say" listing 5 events: 4 of the larger rallies and Trump's parade, noting that at Trump's parade "attendance appeared to fall far short of early predictions ... There were large gaps between viewers"