Trump claims media ‘dishonest’ over crowd photos
January 22, 2017 05:12 pm
US President Donald Trump has accused the media of dishonesty over the number of people attending his inauguration.
Mr Trump said “it looked like” some 1.5m people had been there when he spoke at the US Capitol on Friday.
His press secretary later said it had been “the largest audience to ever see an inauguration” even though figures he cited add up to under 750,000 people.
And photographs appear to show many more attending the inauguration of Barack Obama in 2009.
On Saturday, millions in the US and around the world took part in protests to highlight women’s rights, which activists believe to be under threat from the new administration.
The largest US rally was in the capital, Washington DC, which city officials estimated to be more than 500,000-strong, followed by New York with some 400,000 and hundreds of thousands elsewhere, including Chicago and Los Angeles.
-BBC
-Agencies
