Speaking at CIA headquarters in Virginia on Saturday, Trump challenged media characterizations of the crowd size at his inauguration a day earlier. It is very hard to judge crowd size from within a crowd, as we pointed out on Friday. The crowd size comparison, from 2009 and today. His implication is that the crowd looked more sparse as a result. Noting that there are no official estimates of crowd size, Spicer also walked through the capacities of various parts of the Mall, totaling 720,000 people.

Source: Washington Post January 21, 2017 22:50 UTC