Quite the contrast. The National Park Service released new aerial photos from President Donald Trump’s January 20 inauguration ceremony that seem to show that the crowd was not as massive as he claimed. The park service also released pics from Barack Obama’s 2009 and 2013 swearing-in ceremonies that show a drastically larger crowd.
In the 2017 photos, the crowds are much sparser and the grassy areas near the Washington Monument are almost completely empty. On the other hand, people packed in all along the National Mall to see Obama take the oath of office in 2009. Several experts estimate that Trump’s crowd was about two-thirds smaller than the number of people at Obama’s first inauguration, according to The Washington Post.
The controversy over crowd size began just a day after Trump’s inauguration when the POTUS spoke at CIA headquarters about the media’s coverage of his swearing-in. “I turn on one of the networks, and they show an empty field,” he said. “I’m like, wait a minute. I made a speech. I looked out, the field was, it looked like a million, million and a half people. … The rest of the 20-block area, all the way back to the Washington Monument was packed.”
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