How about Reuters, the BBC, AP, the National Park Service or even Faux News?Mister Moose wrote: Why don't we see any white expanse of empty space in the first photo? I can see distinct squares of people, not the small clusters in the second photo. The second photo was taken far earlier before everyone was there, and widely used to discredit Trump's popularity. don't need any help with that: historically low approval ratings and the majority of voters didn't vote for him And here you are spouting that Trump lied. Who am I going to believe, Time Magazine, or my own lyin eyes?
Gump's press secretary claimed "That was the largest audience to witness an inauguration, period. Both in person and around the globe." When called out (you know, with actual facts), Gump, naturally, declared war on the media while his surrogates introduced us to the Gumpian notion of "alternative facts".
We have hundreds of photos from the National Park Service, high resolution aerial photos from multiple news outlets, time lapse videos, data from the WMATA (570,000 Metro rides during Gump's inauguration day vs 1.1M on Obama's first inauguration). Here's a photo taken from the Washington Monument by Reuters:
A combination of photos taken at the National Mall shows the crowds attending the inauguration ceremonies to swear in U.S. President Donald Trump at 12:01pm (L) on January 20, 2017 and President Barack Obama sometime between 12:07pm and 12:26pm on January 20, 2009, in Washington, U.S., REUTERS/Lucas Jackson (L), Stelios Varias/File Photo
Here's one by the NPS taken at 11:56 am.
NPS images are part of the official federal record.
The crowd was smaller. So what, why lie about it? In fact, who the hell would have cared except for one particular obsessed, narcissistic, second rate reality TV personality?