January
20, 2017 “his was the largest audience to ever witness an
inauguration — period — both in person and around the globe” – Sean Spicer. This Is a quote from the mouth of the current
white house secretary. What’s puzzling about this piece is not only is this
fake news but it is showing how very delusional our Whitehouse staff members
can be. “I looked out, the field was — it looked like a million, million and a
half people.”- Donald Trump. Interestingly enough so does our president. Live
pictures of the inauguration were posted, for the millions of viewers who
choose not to watch President Trump be sworn in. For those who were in
attendance, saw on TV, and saw the released photographs saw that there clearly were
large spots of green grass unoccupied by people, as well as large gaps of space
on the mall.
According to history to Trumps
history “This was the first time in our nation’s history that floor coverings
have been used to protect the grass on the Mall. That had the effect of
highlighting any areas where people were not standing, while in years past the
grass eliminated this visual.” In normal American history, an estimated 1.8
million people attended President Barrack Obama’s inauguration in 2009. Simply
based off trumps statement it shows ignorant or how contradictory he truly is.
I mean think it about in simple math in his own according to his own word even
if it was a million and a half people there at the recent inauguration it still
isn’t more or equivalent for that matter to president Obama’s 2009 election.
Another discrepancy to Trumps numbers I found is original largest crowd to
attend an inauguration was president Johnson’s in 1965 1.2 million estimated
were in attendance. This record was broken by president Obama who was and still
holds the record for the largest crowd to view an inauguration. He has even
“miss-counted” on the number of people who used public transportation to get to
his inauguration. Obamas Inauguration 2009 an estimated 1.1 million citizens
used public transportation to get to the inauguration (another record), was
once again underplayed by Trumps administration when they again claimed that
more than 1.5million took the public transit; when actually only 517,000 did
which less than the average 600,000 plus who ride the public transit daily. The
numbers are baffling. Don’t get me wrong I understand lying in a part of being
in politics; or it is at least how I interpret I mean you get a bunch of rich predominantly
white men to say all the good they’ll do and bad they’ll rid if elected just to
turn around and completely not do what they. Come he even lied about the
weather. I found this article to very helpful and insightful with that being
sad I plan to use this article with the Cluster criticism as my bases while
backing it with quantitative facts found in the example above.
