So how big was that inauguration crowd?
Boy, am I sick of this bigness-of-the-inaugural-crowd business.
But commenter “Hangtown Bob” has called my attention to a photo I just can’t resist spotlighting. It’s interesting on many levels—not just because of how it impacts on the burning question of inaugural crowd size, but because the technology of photographing crowds is so advanced and so detailed. I know, I know; they can see a hair on your nose from outer space, so why not this?
I can’t reproduce the photo on this blog, so you’ll have to go to CNN and fiddle around there with zooms and stuff, particularly way back near the end of the mall.
And unless there’s something I’m not getting, it proves that the crowd really was YUGE.
[NOTE: Oh, and by the way—the public seems to have liked Trump’s inaugural speech, and in particular his “America first” message.]
My measuring stick is Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, 90,000. Anything more than that is huge.
Probably smaller than the TEA Party in DC, which the media undercounted and ascribed with ulterior motives, including pernicious [class] diversity.
“America first”
Everyone needs to tend their garden. Only then can we share the fruits of our labor.
here is the inner crowd of the womens march
The incident, caught on video and uploaded by Rebel Media on Sunday, shows a man with a lip ring and glasses using profanity during an interview with Sheila Gunn Reid, the media site’s Alberta bureau chief.
“You’re part of the problem, not the solution,” one marcher says to the woman who was punched in the face.
RAW video: Thug punches Rebel reporter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=94&v=S1eb9vQ1vAk
[given they are equal they should say he punched a person, and that was wrong, but somehow, more than equal, eh? Do note that these idiots also think they are in france or germany and you need their permission. sorry, you out in public, you can be filmed… even more so if its journalism… a bit less if its commercial… ]
You can’t see a “hair on your nose” from outer space. The view from space to ground is obstructed by the same atmosphere that obstructs the view from earth to space. The same thing that causes twinkling of the stars, and makes the hubble images so much better than large earthbound telescopes creates distortion on images from space to earth. It’s propaganda that we can make out people by their shadow or haircut.
@Neo – that’s the same image link GB gave.
Yes, it was huge! ~1.5M
While looks like it was less than obama 2008, it is surprisingly large for how “unpopular” trump was (very much rivaled by clinton’s unpopularity this election – so doubt she’d have fared any better), weather, extra security hassles, etc.
Local news showed folks and students who really don’t like trump in the least, but still went to see / honor the peaceful transfer of power.
OldManRick:
I was joking.
No hairs on my nose 🙂 .
The size of the inaugural crowd tit for tat between the msm and the Trump team is just plain silly. Everyone knows it was well attended, inaugurals are always draw a large (as in bigly) crowd.
BTW, the spy satellites can see the hair inside your nose if you are looking straight up on a clear day. 😉
All the data I’ve seen (including photographic evidence) suggests about 800,000 which is half of Obama’s crowd.
I’m not trying to channel Hillary or anything:
But what difference does it make?!
No, seriously, it doesn’t make any difference to me how huge it was or wasn’t. It doesn’t matter to me if Obamas was bigger or not.
I was there! I had a blast – especially when the crowd booed whenever Hillary’s face showed on the Jumbotron. And the cheering for Trump was louder than most of the cheering I hear at pro sports games.
Trump’s press secretary was right in that the media was trying to delegitimize Trump’s presidency; and Trump’s team called them out on it. THAT is what matters.
Quite frankly, those whiney brats and the MSM (am I repeating myself there?) do not get how petty they are coming across to the rest of us. They just don’t.
On a side note I so wanted to buy a Trump hat (winter ski hat) and scarf; but, I knew that I would never, NEVER, be comfortable wearing it in any East Coast city as I would always be looking over my shoulder for someone attack me. You know, those “tolerant” progressives would let me know just how they feel!
Approval hits 59%…
same here
i cant even wear it at my friend bbq because they thought that obama was going to rain down freebies on their lives now that they wont admit they screwed their own pooch by not doing what they were supposed to do and doing what they wanted to do that wasnt enough, and for some reason want someone else that didnt get into their leaky boats, to bail them out
i have two hats…
was going to get them signed
but the time, the violence and so on
who wants to be a victim of the left and then blamed as for everything that made you a victim!!! (like the news reporter in that video found out). the dont blame the woman for rape concept is only for the pudenda class, which i guess now includes men wiht penis who say they are women cause a vagina is not what makes a woman a woman any more.. (so says the TG lobby, who is teaming up with the BLM and others to remove those racist white privleged false claiming to be opprssed feminists (who have no one to stand up for them just like in sweden where a three hour rape was just televised on face book – seems to me when the afghanis win, their women wont mind the violence that got them a better place to live!!!))
this is too funny not to share
Clueless Moonbats Call for Impeachment Over Rape of Juanita Broaddrick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_EwFdLSEN0
Bill Clinton could do no wrong from moonbats’ point of view. But what would their attitude be regarding Juanita Broaddrick’s credible allegation of rape if Trump were the rapist? Faith Goldy discovered the answer at the Women’s March in D.C.
There is one small point that is worth mentioning. Over 90% of the DC area is democrat so the vast majority of the people that attended had to come in from out of town. I believe this worked to keep the crowd size down for Trump and inflated the size for Obama.
Also, after Bush being a punching bag for 8 years and having himself and his agenda being demonized by the left and the media (redundant) without any real opposition, I’m thrilled that Trump does not let any slight by the media/left, no matter how small, go unanswered. I’m a firm believer, along with Giuliani, that if you take care of the small things then the big things will never come up.
If the media/left gets push back every time they show their bias then they will start thinking twice when they do it. Every time they’ll have to weigh if what they’re saying is worth the time they’ll have to put in defending it. It keeps them from building up the negative momentum that they did with Bush. So, I feel there’s no subject that is too trivial to be defended.
Crowd size does matter, as do election fraud, the border wall, Mexico paying, stopping illegal immigration and all the other myriad of issues they’re using to attack Trump and his agenda. Death by a thousand small cuts is still death!
Irv: “Over 90% of the DC area is democrat so the vast majority of the people that attended had to come in from out of town.”
True, very true. As I was standing in the security line to get in and talking to folks standing near me we had:
Our group from NY/NJ.
A family of 5 from Ohio.
Another family of about 7 or 8 from Minnesota (or was it Michigan? I forget).
A group of college students from North Carolina.
Driving down and back in one day from NY/NJ we were the closest group. Everyone else came for several days.
oh, and unlike the Women’s March we all paid for our trip OURSELVES. We didn’t get a dime from Soros.