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Ahead of Biden’s swearing-in ceremony, social media users pointed to the crowd size at his inauguration, comparing it to Trump’s in 2017.
Crowd-size experts estimate the number of people on the National Mall for Obama's first inauguration was between 800,000 and 1 million. Trump drew about a third of that total in 2017, they say.
Debates over President-elect Trump's inaugural crowd size notably generated controversy back in 2017, with the White House insisting the media underreported Trump's numbers. With his swearing-in ...
On January 21, 2017, while White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer held his first press briefing, he accused the media of deliberately underestimating the size of the crowd for President Trump's first inaugural ceremony the day before and stated that the ceremony had drawn the "largest audience to ever witness an inauguration – period – both in person and around the globe". [4]
Crowd science professor Keith Still estimated the total attendance at 300,000 to 600,000 people, or one-third the estimated 1.1 million to 1.8 million people that attended Obama's 2009 inauguration [3] [140] [141] – which set a record for the total number of people in the National Mall at any one given time, [142] and which marked the ...
Biden delivers his inaugural address to a socially distant crowd. Biden vocalized his opposition to disinformation and politicians who seek to gain from its weaponization—a passive reference to Trump, who frequently made false or misleading statements while in office. [163]
The inauguration of Barack Obama in 2009 holds the record for inaugural crowd size, clocking in at an estimated 1.8 million people. (AFP via Getty Images)
Trump greeted by roaring rally crowd. At an inauguration eve rally, Trump promised drastic changes over the next four years. “Tomorrow at noon, the curtain closes on four long years of American ...