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The petty press seems to only be covering one topic over the past 48-hours of the Trump presidency: Who drew the bigger crowd….Obama or Trump?
The petty drama began on Friday soon after the inauguration ceremony ended. The Department of Interior briefly ceased all social media use after the National Parks Service account was used to retweet a picture showing a drastic different in crowd sizes on the Mall. On Saturday morning, President Trump appeared at the Central Intelligence Agency Headquarters in Langley, Virginia and stoked the controversy by saying:
“It looked, honestly, like 1.5 million people. Whatever it was, it was, but it went all the way back to the Washington Monument.”
The saga culminated on Saturday night when White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer called in the White House Press Corps to give a terse statement on the issue and what he saw as unfair coverage of the crowds. Spicer shouted down critics of the inauguration and said:
“This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration. Period.”
So did Trump really have the largest audience for an inauguration? The National Park Service no longer issues crowd estimates due to a controversy that stemmed from their estimates of crowds at the Million Man March in 1995. So we have to depend on your thoughts.
https://twitter.com/BCAppelbaum/status/822478866035986435/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
thoughts.
Compare the crowds: 2009 inauguration at left, 2017 inauguration at right.#Inauguration
What do you think?
