Summary: Trump claims that he had the biggest crowd ("A million and half people" he said) for an inauguration when photos from helicopter view say otherwise. Trump is accusing news media of portraying his crowd as much smaller than he claimed. It was estimated to be 160,000 people there, which is a huge difference to Obama's 1.8 million on his inauguration day back in 2009; compared to Obama's, Trump's is drastically smaller. Experts have estimated that the women's march, which was a day after Trump's inauguration, was 3x the size of his crowd.
Analysis/Synthesis: Trump is constantly under media surveillance and they're always waiting for him to slip up. It is very clear he doesn't like when news use true facts against him and he can't convincingly argue back. His crowd was more than a little undersized and that speaks for itself. The vast difference between Obama's crowd and Trump's is very interesting especially when Inauguration day is a federal holiday in DC.
Sources: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/21/us/politics/trump-white-house-briefing-inauguration-crowd-size.html?_r=0
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/22/us/politics/womens-march-trump-crowd-estimates.html
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