NY Times pics comparing Obama's and Trump's inaugural crowds:

[tblue37]

Obama's:



Trump's:

[meadowlark5]

1. That's a lie!!

There were 1.5mil people at Trump's. It was biggest EVER!!

[hopeforchange2008]

4. They were just more closely packed!

[grantcart]

24. Everybody wore white hats

[wildeyed]

5. They know this because no one knows how big the crowds are!

The park service doesn't do estimates! But they know that Trump's was the biggest ever

[Richard D]

36. MPD?

[Equinox Moon]

47. He'll say they took the picture before all the people came.

[Lithos]

48. They already have said that

I've seen posts saying it was 1 hour before...

L-

[wildeyed]

2. Yep, Barack's is bigger.

No denying that.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

38. I don't know, it's too close to call. - CNN

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

54. Aw, c'mon now, that's a racist stereotype!

[hopeforchange2008]

3. But but but the white coverings distort the numbers!!!! /nt

[Charles Bukowski]

17. It's hard to make out, but those white coverings

are actually Klansmen! Hundreds of thousands of them.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

32. please explain that rationale. you can

See people on them. What is Spicer getting at?

[George II]

34. Yeah, but people were UNDER the white coverings...it was raining.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. Spicer claimed the people in Obama's pictures were really grass.

[herding cats]

19. That's because the white plastic camouflaged his supporters.

They're not just all white, they were wearing this.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

39. And it was after Labor Day, too!

Savagely barbaric!

[Tess49]

45. Thanks for the laugh!!!!!!!!!

[Island Blue]

7. Yes, but see, you can't see all of the white people

dressed in their white Klan robes because there were white ground coverings on account of the rain and what not.

[OregonBlue]

8. All the people at the back were wearing white.

[gwheezie]

9. I figured it out

About a million white folks were standing around naked at the Trump festivities & blended in

[SammyWinstonJack]

11. HA!

[tblue37]

10. In his CIA speech he claimed that god turned off the rain just as he started to speak, but then let

it pour as soon as he finished speaking. A lie, of course, but it reminds me of the self-aggrandizing dream sequence in the premier episode of The Young Pope, where the pope stretches his arms out to heavens and causes a downpour to stop abruptly, impressing the adoring crowds in the square with his miraculous powers.

[SammyWinstonJack]

13. Whaaat...he actually said that?

[tblue37]

20. Yes, he did. nt

[Agschmid]

42. ... I know right?!?!?!

[Fantastic Anarchist]

43. Yes, we have a moronic, arrogant, megalomaniac ...

... with a Messiah-complex as leader, and has nuclear launch codes at his disposal in case someone hurts his fragile ego. We're in big trouble.

[rgbecker]

12. Help me on this please.

Spicer mentioned the NY Times corrected their pictures...At least this is what it sounded like to me.

Is this the corrected version? Is there a question of the timing of the picture?

Thanks.

[secondwind]

28. The Obama photo was 11:39 a.m. and the Trump photo is 11:04 a.m.

[Baitball Blogger]

14. Jesus. Trump's first presser was to direct us to these particular photos because

they thought they supported Trump's position of a larger crowd? What? Did they think the dark splotches of tree canvas were people?

[Fantastic Anarchist]

44. To the people who voted and support him, the answer is a resounding yes.

Reality means nothing to these people.

[Dem2]

15. Identical

in every way.

No wonder the boy wonder is butthurt!



Side note - can see better in these photos the huge numbers on the grass at Obamalos inauguration.

[Blaukraut]

16. This shows the "big circle thing" Trump was boasting about in both pictures

Definitive: President Obama's inauguration crowd dwarfs Cheeto's crowd.

[Sunny05]

26. What's the big circle thing?

[Blaukraut]

35. The semi-circular seating area at the capitol. Trump called it the "circle thing"

[Sunny05]

40. Thanks. nt

[Fantastic Anarchist]

46. Can you imagine him speaking with foreign leaders like that?

"If you don't do what we want, I'll shoot our long pointy things at you that will make a big boom. Then our soldery guys will go pew, pew, pew all over your country, and you won't like it one bit! So quit calling me an orangutan. I'm not a fruit!"

[Blaukraut]

50. LMAO. I have no doubt the interpreters will have their hands full

[Fantastic Anarchist]

52. Sad but true.

Trump has all the eloquence of a donkey on thorazine.

[BumRushDaShow]

55. Pakled Administration

[doc03]

18. Its an optical illusion the white plastic makes it look like nobody is there.

Could it be the people are hiding under the plastic? Trumps press boy said it was the biggest crowd ever.

[tblue37]

21. Like W under his rain poncho!

[doc03]

51. Hey its complicated nt

[Cha]

22. And, blotus goes apeshit.. tweet on that, drumpfuck

[JI7]

23. weather was even worse for Obama's

[dalton99a]

41. Yep.

[keithbvadu2]

25. How come so few wanted to sit down in the empty bleachers?

[StevieM]

27. You lie!! (eom)

[adigal]

29. Oh, boy, Trump is going to go after many people tonight

Let's see: the NY Times; Brennan; and 8 million people across the country!!!

[elmac]

49. He's too busy shutting down all the Federal informational and government sites

He wants no input, wants no interruption as he & his fascist party ransacks everything good left in this country

[hay rick]

30. Even worse...

The Trump picture is closer up. A significant portion of the Obama crowd is in an area that is chopped off at the bottom of the Trump picture.

[Hoyt]

31. Had it not been for white wing bikers for Trump, the crowd would have been much less.

[zentrum]

33. Maybe in his

.....grandiosity he delusionally actually saw the crowds he wanted. That's even scarier than a deliberate lie.

Why are they all separated from each other in his photos---denseness separated by sparse areas?

[jeffreyi]

37. They had on their invisibility suits!

I mean cloaks.

[MFM008]

53. Bagdad Bob Spicer

[Cha]

56. Josh Marshall takes on the spicerfact about the Inaugural metro..

Josh Marshall
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Spicer said 2013 Inaugural metro use was 317k, lower than Trump's 420k. Actual 2013 number was 782k. http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/sean-spicer-assails-media-inauguration-crowd-size … ¯_(ツ _/¯
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