Is that number counting online also? TV only? Online only?
Well, you should be worried.
The media pointed out that there was a lower turn-out for Trump's inauguration than there was for Obama's. In support of this, they showed two photos comparing crowd sizes taken from the top of the Washington Monument. The photo of Obama's inauguration shows crowds stretching from the Capitol to the Washington Monument, whereas the photo of Trump's inauguration showed visibly smaller crowds - there are large patches of ground that simply haven't been filled.
Trump has tried to characterise this as a biased an inaccurate story put forward by an irresponsible media that Preibus has described as trying to "de-legitimise the President".
Here is that image:
And associated story.
You misunderstand what is being discussed. Who had more makes feck all difference to most. It's the fact that it seems to trouble Trump and his team so much that they accuse the press of 'fake news' and seemingly lie in their first press briefing when it would appear the press are only reporting the facts.
What's the worst he can do? Ban them from White House press briefings? It'll only make him look petty and have zero effect on news being reported as video is available live and in a billion places on the internetz.
The internetz for one. Traditional tv viewership is down dramatically since 2008, as much as 40% in some demographics and that's just since 2011. With that kind of decline in overall viewership you might be able to make a case that Trump's traditional tv viewing audience, as a share of tv watchers, was actually higher than Obama's. Throw in the interwebs and it's quite easy to conclude that Trump's is the most watched inauguration in history. NBC's viewcount alone, in one video, is bordering on 10 million.
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You don't think it's relevant? We're having a discussion about freedom of the press and here we've got one of the most senior figures of Trump's cabinet accusing the media of deliberately manipulating images to present a view of the event in line with a predetermined agenda. I think it's highly relevant given that Trump seems to be unable to respond to criticism without going on the attack.
It may seem frivolous, but that's how this sort of thing begins. Trump starts cracking down on trivial things, and while we all laugh at him, the media stop reporting on it. Then they consciously stop reporting on other things that seem trivial so that they don't incur his ire. But then they stop reporting on bigger, more serious issues that depict him negatively. Eventually, the press have unconsciously silenced themselves, and any attempt at reporting on those big issues is met with retribution.
He never got into a Twitter war at three in the morning with a former beauty pageant contestant, so ... yes.
So glad about this.Good. WASHINGTON -- Most of the approximately 230 protesters arrested on Inauguration Day will be charged with felony rioting, federal prosecutors said. That is not how you practice your right to peaceful assembly and puts a black eye on all the others. It is not enough to say 'well I didn't do that'.
The caption of this picture I found amusing lol.
Probably right but I have no idea why a gun would be fired in the first place in a protest.
I would say that was a pretty big yes... Obama was certainly more statesman-like and considerably more coherent than Trump, though that is not saying much... Trump is about as statesman like as Roy Chubby Brown.
Obama was such a great president that Donald Trump was his legacy....
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