Jan 17, 2025 · Here’s why The National Park Service stays out of the debates about crowd sizes — including for President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration.

Jan 20, 2017 · Just prior to his inauguration, President Donald Trump predicted huge crowds for his ceremony. Estimates are still rolling in about how many actually attended.

Jan 20, 2025 · Throughout his 2024 campaign, Trump has consistently emphasized rally crowd sizes, making this inauguration's attendance figures a closely watched metric of public support. But what exactly...

Jan 23, 2017 · The crowd-size controversy began on Saturday, Jan. 21, a day after the inauguration, when President Donald Trump claimed the media had misrepresented the number of people attending his...

Jan 20, 2017 · An analysis of news footage appears to indicate that fewer people attended President Trump’s inauguration than President Obama’s in 2009. The footage on this page was captured 45 minutes before...

Jan 15, 2025 · With President-elect Trump's second inauguration a week away and his fixation with attendance numbers at his public events undiminished, crowd size is going to be front and center again for...

Jan 21, 2017 · Donald Trump had biggest inaugural crowd ever? Metrics don't show it. At the first press briefing of the new administration, White House press secretary Sean Spicer blasted the media, saying...

Jan 18, 2025 · While Monday's inauguration was supposed to be held on the steps of the Capitol, severe weather forced the ceremony to be moved inside the Rotunda.

Jan 19, 2025 · Crowd size is something of an obsession for Donald Trump, and his inauguration day crowd is no exception. In 2017, Trump spent weeks insisting that he had drawn the largest inauguration crowd ever ...

Jan 20, 2025 · Joseph Lawhorn, 21, poses inside Capital One arena ahead of an indoor rally on the day of the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump, in Washington, U.S. January 20, 2025. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli