httpss://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNhkqE4Tqcs
Fact: Photos from the 2013 inauguration clearly show white ground coverings being laid on the National Mall ahead of President Barack Obama’s second swearing-in.
Claim: “No one had numbers, because the National Park Service, which controls the National Mall, does not put any out.”
Fact: It’s accurate the National Park Service doesn’t provide an official crowd count for the inauguration.
Claim: “We know that from the platform w the President was sworn in to 4th Street, it holds about 250,000 people. From 4th Street to the media tent is about another 220,000. And from the media tent to the Washington Monument, another 250,000 people. All of this space was full when the President took the oath of office.”
Claim: “We know that 420,000 people used the D.C. Metro public transit yesterday, which actually compares to 317,000 that used it for President Obama’s last inaugural.”
Fact: Spicer is using a range of numbers that don’t make for a precise comparison.
Trump at the CIA. Claim: “The President was also at the – as you know, the President was also at the Central Intelligence Agency and greeted by a raucous overflow crowd of some 400-plus CIA employees. T were more than 1,000 requests to attend, prompting the President to note that he’ll have to come back to greet the rest. They gave him a five-minute standing ovation at the end in a display of their patriotism and their enthusiasm for his presidency.”