Inaguration crowd size

[Mountain Man]

But that's not what Trump was claiming. He said: "this was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period, both in person and around the globe". It was a lie, one of the thousands of documented lies attributed to Trump. He's a pathological liar. Deal with it.

Not a lie at all. The combined audience was the largest in history.

[rogue06]

Not a lie at all. The combined audience was the largest in history.

From all indications (thanks to live streaming and such) it was. But AFAICT Trump said the audience was the largest both at the event and watching it on TV/computer/phone. The audience physically there wasn't the largest. Not surprising though, what with all the threats of violent disruption bound to keep some who would have otherwise attended away.

As for the pictures... traditionally most of the ones you see are from when the president is being sworn in or during the inaugural address, for some reason this time most of the pictures are from well before these events when people would still be arriving. One does have to wonder why this was changed.

[Mountain Man]

From all indications (thanks to live streaming and such) it was. But AFAICT Trump said the audience was the largest both at the event and watching it on TV/computer/phone. The audience physically there wasn't the largest. Not surprising though, what with all the threats of violent disruption bound to keep some who would have otherwise attended away.

As for the pictures... traditionally most of the ones you see are from when the president is being sworn in or during the inaugural address, for some reason this time most of the pictures are from well before these events when people would still be arriving. One does have to wonder why this was changed.

Trump's statement was obviously referring to the combined audience.

[Sparko]

Did it ever occur to you that cnn might be posting the full image that corresponds to the one the photographer cropped?

it's a 360-degree megapixel photo with no cropping. You can see all the way back and up into the sky if you want. Did you even look?

[Cow Poke]

They was lots of peoples at both events.

[Sparko]

They was lots of peoples at both events.

Yeah the whole "controversy" seems petty.

[Cow Poke]

Yeah the whole "controversy" seems petty.

Oh yeah? Whataboutism!

[Sparko]

Oh yeah? Whataboutism!

LOL, it IS Whataboutism!!!

OH Charles!!! Where are you>

[Mountain Man]

As for the pictures... traditionally most of the ones you see are from when the president is being sworn in or during the inaugural address, for some reason this time most of the pictures are from well before these events when people would still be arriving. One does have to wonder why this was changed.

It's not hard to figure out why when the mainstream media had already gotten into the habit of blatantly lying in order to undermine Trump.

[Mountain Man]

it's a 360-degree megapixel photo with no cropping. You can see all the way back and up into the sky if you want. Did you even look?

I think ox was referring to the image in the CNN article cited by Chuck which shows a slightly different version of the one that was taken at least an hour before the ceremony and which the mainstream media deceptively compared to Obama's crowd when it was at its peak. In which case whether it was cropped or not is entirely beside the point.

[Sparko]

I think ox was referring to the image in the CNN article cited by Chuck which shows a slightly different version of the one that was taken at least an hour before the ceremony and which the mainstream media deceptively compared to Obama's crowd when it was at its peak. In which case whether it was cropped or not is entirely beside the point.

1. The CNN article Chuck linked to didn't even show the cropped image in it.
2. He was responding to your post with your link to the Gigapixel image. obviously he assumed you were posting a link to the cropped picture out of ignorance. Instead you posted a gigapixel photo from CNN which was a 360-degree uncropped photo.

3. the whole complaint is what Chuck usually calls "whataboutism" and is stupid to begin with. "But whatabout Obama? he had more people!"

It's like two rockstars complaining about who had more fans at their concerts.

[Leonhard]

Lets not bicker about such trivialities.


Pope Francis in Poland.

[Zymologist]

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[Leonhard]

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Hey I'm not the one suffering from crowd envy.

I like that one though. We had a similar thing back once in a thread, and I think Kim Jong Un had the largest crowd.

[Mountain Man]

Lets not bicker about such trivialities.


Pope Francis in Poland.

That picture looks cropped.