# If you wonder how many people attended the inauguration... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 4, 2017, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-wonder-how-many-people-attended-the-inauguration/779014 "2017-02-04T21:46:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Okrahoma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90db22/32.png) [@Okrahoma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Okrahoma)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2017, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-wonder-how-many-people-attended-the-inauguration/779014/1 "2017-02-04T21:46:11Z")
you can count them yourself. > **[Gigapixel: The inauguration of Donald Trump](https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2017/01/politics/trump-inauguration-gigapixel/)** > > Explore a massive photo taken during Donald Trump's inauguration speech. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2017, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-wonder-how-many-people-attended-the-inauguration/779014/2 "2017-02-04T21:54:50Z")
That’s a basket of deplorables, alright. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2017, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-wonder-how-many-people-attended-the-inauguration/779014/3 "2017-02-04T21:59:30Z")
Also known as National Mommy’s Basement Cleaning Day. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2017, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-wonder-how-many-people-attended-the-inauguration/779014/4 "2017-02-04T23:34:27Z")
Yet a different view shows that a single glance there were more people at Obama’s inauguration than at Trump’s > **[Inaugural crowd sizes: Trump v. Obama | CNN](https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2017/01/20/trump-obama-inaugural-crowd-size-sg-orig-mobile.cnn)** > > Here is the overhead shot of the National Mall during Trump's inauguration in 2017 and Obama's inauguration in 2013. Even in the gigapixel image linked one can notice the gaps in the crowd, from that view there are not very clear, but one can notice them when going closer and on can match them with the gaps in the comparison picture. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2017, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-wonder-how-many-people-attended-the-inauguration/779014/5 "2017-02-04T23:41:31Z")
I don’t wonder the numbers of attendees. I can see by all available photographic evidence that it was a smaller number than everyone else’s inauguration ceremony. Try to get on with my life. Sad. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/ZbEk2bgOuho/maxresdefault.jpg "Nobody Likes Me (Live)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbEk2bgOuho) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2017, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-wonder-how-many-people-attended-the-inauguration/779014/6 "2017-02-04T23:45:14Z")
> [@Okrahoma](#): > > you can count them yourself. > > [Gigapixel: The inauguration of Donald Trump](http://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2017/01/politics/trump-inauguration-gigapixel/) That’s a great link. I particularly like the zoom feature that lets you see all those people bored out of their wits. Melania looks like she’s asleep. Hilary looks like someone hit her with a thorazine dart. The only person who seems interested in what DT is saying is Bill Clinton. ---
**Author:** ![filmore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@filmore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmore)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2017, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-wonder-how-many-people-attended-the-inauguration/779014/7 "2017-02-04T23:46:31Z")
[quote=“bobot, post:5, topic:779014”] I don’t wonder the numbers of attendees. I can see by all available photographic evidence that it was a smaller number than everyone else’s inauguration ceremony. Try to get on with my life. Sad. [/QUOTE] If only the president was as observant as you, the whole country would have moved by now. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2017, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-wonder-how-many-people-attended-the-inauguration/779014/8 "2017-02-05T00:10:12Z")
Man, that’s a mighty white crowd there. ---
**Author:** ![Evan\_Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b487fb/32.png) [@Evan\_Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evan_Drake)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2017, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-wonder-how-many-people-attended-the-inauguration/779014/9 "2017-02-05T00:25:26Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > The only person who seems interested in what DT is saying is Bill Clinton. Bill and Donald have been friends for over two decades. You don’t drop that for politics. Apart from many mutual interests they share, a friend to them both, a businessman from Atlantic City called Tony August, wrote to Clinton in 1993: _“…if you two don’t know each other you should. You have much in common, age, broad vision for the future and most importantly, the resources and desire to make America bigger and better than it already is.”_ Bill and Donnie’s visions merge seamlessly into a bright new tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2017, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-wonder-how-many-people-attended-the-inauguration/779014/10 "2017-02-05T00:29:10Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Man, that’s a mighty white crowd there. Anyone would turn white at the thought of Trump as President. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2017, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-wonder-how-many-people-attended-the-inauguration/779014/11 "2017-02-05T04:45:43Z")
I wish I could link to a specific shot. I found an old white dude sitting in a white rain poncho with a really pointy hood. I’m fairly sure he’s not a Klansman, but, come on dude, optics! ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2017, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-wonder-how-many-people-attended-the-inauguration/779014/12 "2017-02-05T05:36:36Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > I wish I could link to a specific shot. I found an old white dude sitting in a white rain poncho with a really pointy hood. I’m fairly sure he’s not a Klansman, but, come on dude, optics! [This guy](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/snowboarderbo/Screen%20Shot%202017-02-04%20at%209.29.41%20PM.png)? ETA: I took a screenshot. On a Mac, SHIFT-COMMAND 4 let’s you choose the area of the screen that gets captured by describing a rectangle with the cursor; just FYI. SHIFT-COMMAND 3 takes a shot of the whole screen (or all screens if you have more than 1 monitor). ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-wonder-how-many-people-attended-the-inauguration/779014/13 "2017-02-06T16:34:04Z")
> [@Evan\_Drake](#): > > Bill and Donald have been friends for over two decades. You don’t drop that for politics. I think you do when you threaten to lock up his wife. ---
**Author:** ![Evan\_Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b487fb/32.png) [@Evan\_Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evan_Drake)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-wonder-how-many-people-attended-the-inauguration/779014/14 "2017-02-06T19:23:24Z")
Nah, 'sits nothing personal: Bill rang him up to congratulate him on winning, just after. Anyway, he knows Donald won’t do that, any more than he will do most things he implied during the election. And previous candidates in America blustered and threatened just as hard in the 19th century.