# Trump's vs. Obama's inauguration crowds, True, or False

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 20, 2017, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-vs-obamas-inauguration-crowds-true-or-false/777654 "2017-01-20T18:24:05Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-vs-obamas-inauguration-crowds-true-or-false/777654/9 "2017-01-21T09:58:36Z")

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The photos come from the Dept of Interior, which has now had its twitter account shut down.

> **[Interior Department reactivates Twitter accounts after shutdown following...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/01/20/interior-department-banned-from-twitter-after-retweet-of-smaller-than-usual-trump-inauguration-crowd/?hpid=hp_rhp-bignews3_twitterban-1151pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.9dfb4973a3ef)**
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> A shared tweet about crowd sizes apparently made someone at the Interior Department nervous enough to stand down dozens of official Twitter accounts.

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