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Undated: The inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States marked commencement of the four-year term of Donald Trump as President and Mike Pence as Vice President. An estimated 300,000–600,000[1][2] people attended the public ceremony held on Friday, January 20, 2017 on the West Front of the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.
Before the event, federal and local agencies estimated turnout between 700,000 and 900,000.[129][130] Trump predicted his inauguration having "an unbelievable, perhaps record-setting turnout."[131]
The US Park Service does not publish crowd estimates about events at the National Mall.[132] Overhead imagery[133] and statistics on public transportation ridership from the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), which operates Metrorail, are therefore used to estimate crowd sizes.[134]
The WMATA reported that 193,000 passengers rode the Metro before 11 a.m. on the day of Trump's inauguration, and 570,557 passengers during the entire day, noting that it was lower than the average weekday ridership of 639,000 passengers.[135] USA Today reported on "a notable number" of empty seats along the parade route.[136]
Crowd counting experts cited by The New York Times estimated that about 160,000 people were in the National Mall areas in the hour leading up to Trump's speech.[137] 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[2][138][139] – which set a record for the total number of people in the National Mall at any one given time,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inauguration_of_Donald_Trump
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March 7: The National Park Service has released a series of aerial and ground shots that show the crowd sizes during the last three presidential inaugurations in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from various media outlets.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/07/politics/national-park-service-inauguration-crowd-size-photos/?iid=ob_article_footer_expansion
March 7: This issue of crowd size has been a point of contention for the Trump White House, which has repeatedly accused the media of understating the President's inauguration crowd sizes.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/07/politics/national-park-service-inauguration-crowd-size-photos/?iid=ob_article_footer_expansion
March 7: "We had a massive field of people. You saw that — packed. I get up this morning, I turn on one of the networks and they show an empty field. I said wait a minute, I made a speech. I looked out the field was, it looked like a million, a million and half people, they showed a field where there was practically nobody standing there," Trump said.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/07/politics/national-park-service-inauguration-crowd-size-photos/?iid=ob_article_footer_expansion
March 7: From Trump's point of view as he gave his inaugural address, the crowd undoubtedly appeared quite large, but the newly released photos dispute the President's claim that the crowd stretched "all the way back to the Washington monument."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/07/politics/national-park-service-inauguration-crowd-size-photos/?iid=ob_article_footer_expansion
October: The largest State Fair in the U.S. is in Texas; the second largest is in Minnesota. In 2017, Texas attendance was . Minnesota's 2017 attendance was 1,997,320, with the largest one-day total set at 242,759. Trump's inauguration crowd was estimated at about 160,000 people; the women's march in Washington was estimated at about 470,000 people.
November 15: A journalist could get 60 years in prison for covering Trump inauguration protests
“If protesters take over a highway, and journalists join them, the journalist can still be arrested,” Leslie said. “We often try to work with police beforehand, and say you should try not to treat journalists like lawbreakers. You should try to recognize they’re engaged in first amendment activity that’s in the public interest.”
https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/kzggnm/a-journalist-could-get-60-years-in-prison-for-covering-trump-inauguration-protests
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September 6: Trump inauguration crowd photos were edited after he intervened ... government photographer cropped space ‘where crowd ended’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/06/donald-trump-inauguration-crowd-size-photos-edited
September 9: A government photographer told investigators that he intentionally cropped photos of President Donald Trump's inauguration to remove empty space and make the audience look larger, according to newly released documents.
Trump claimed footage of the event did not jibe with the number of people he saw from the stage. His then-press secretary, Sean Spicer, gathered reporters the following evening and claimed, "This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration -- period."
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/07/politics/trump-inauguration-photos/index.html
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