It also released photos of the swearing-in of former President Barack Obama four and eight years ago. And it’s pretty clear that the crowd size at the 45th president’s inaugural was smaller ...

Dueling crowds. Photos from the National Park Service show the crowd at Barack Obama’s inauguration in January 2009 (top) and the audience at Donald Trump’s ceremony in January 2017 (bottom).

Photo taken at the National Mall shows the crowd attending the inauguration ceremony to swear in US President Donald Trump at 12:01pm. Lucas Jackson / Reuters Now we move a little closer. During Obama ...

As the pictures show, there is a clear difference in the crowd size at Trump's inauguration on Jan. 20 and Obama's in previous years Stephanie Petit is a Royals Editor, Writer and Reporter at PEOPLE.

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Photos circulating online claim to compare the crowd size at former president Barack Obama's 2009 inauguration and Donald Trump's inauguration Friday. Side by side photos show a significant ...

Still, he said, looking at side-by-side photos from the 2009 Obama inauguration and Trump’s, that vantage point makes it clear that the crowd was much smaller for Trump’s inauguration.

Several news outlets have published side-by-side photographs showing a visibly larger crowd during Obama's 2009 inauguration. On Meet the Press, Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway said Spicer ...