Look, more than the photo back up the estimates that his crowd was much smaller than Obama'said. There are hotel bookings and mass transit numbers, for instance.
And the fact is, as I saw pointed out by a conservative news source, it is normal for Republican presidents to have smaller crowds, because DC and the surrounding area is heavily liberal. Bush's largest crowd was estimated around 400k people the second time as the most ever for a Republican swearing in. So if Trump got 300 or 350k people, that's really fairly normal and quite expected. He should honestly have just responded that he was perfectly pleased with turnout, the end of statement. Not this insane insisting that he's the best, always the best at everything.
The fact that he cares so much that he has to distort facts, and have a press conference about it, instead of spending his time doing his job, is the real issue here. This is what we saw before he was elected, so it's really no shocker. It's also no shocker that his supporters will twist themselves in knots to ignore or justify the lies. But of course it's still upsetting to see.
And the fact is, as I saw pointed out by a conservative news source, it is normal for Republican presidents to have smaller crowds, because DC and the surrounding area is heavily liberal. Bush's largest crowd was estimated around 400k people the second time as the most ever for a Republican swearing in. So if Trump got 300 or 350k people, that's really fairly normal and quite expected. He should honestly have just responded that he was perfectly pleased with turnout, the end of statement. Not this insane insisting that he's the best, always the best at everything.
The fact that he cares so much that he has to distort facts, and have a press conference about it, instead of spending his time doing his job, is the real issue here. This is what we saw before he was elected, so it's really no shocker. It's also no shocker that his supporters will twist themselves in knots to ignore or justify the lies. But of course it's still upsetting to see.
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
