Many, if not all if you, have seen pictures comparing the crowd sizes at Trump's and Obama's inauguration, with Trump's looking paltry in comparison. Moreover, there are other pictures from other camera angles that make Trump's crowds look much larger than they appear in the direct comparison. A picture of all three is here: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C2wavw-VQAEupAc.jpg. yes, this picture comes from trump supporters.

However, this does not suffice to show that the crowd size at Trump's inauguration was larger than implied by the overhead shots. Who knows, maybe the media was lying and that picture was taken before the crowd showed up. What needs to be shown is that the bottom image (Reality) would not resemble the top right image (Fake News) if the camera angle was different. That is what I intend to do in this post. To help, I will estimate how much of a crowd is in between each divider, defined by the tall speaker towers, since they are easy to see in both images and can be used to easily orient yourself when mentally rotating images.

So, let's begin by examining the bottom picture, Reality. Starting at the place we know to be the same building, there appear to be no people grouping up between the building and the first group of speakers in the bottom picture. This is consistent with the top right picture, Fake News.

In between the first group of speakers and the second group of speakers, there appear to be a small crowd gathered around the left speaker, but not the right in Reality. One concerning thing to me is that the red curve around the building appears to cut off the crowd, making it difficult to judge crowd sizes in this area. From above and behind, therefore, the picture would have a small crowd gathered at the right, with few people on the left in the area between the bottom pair of speakers and the next pair. Lo and behold, this is exactly what you see in Fake News.

Moving closer to Trump, the next region in Reality appears to be full. It might be completely full, but it is hard to tell due to the camera angle. One feature you can see in Reality is that the crowd goes around the speakers on the right, before a hard divider. It is hard to compare relative sizes between left and right, but they both appear to be full. In Fake News, this area isn't full, but has a lot of people, so it is easy to see that moving the camera to in front of the crowd would make this region appear full. Also you can more clearly see the hard divider.

Moving one region closer to Trump in Reality, you see that there are no groups of people piling up on the right and while the left appears completely full. In Fake News, as one would expect if the two pictures were taken of the same crowd from different camera angles. The right is fullish, while the left is barren.

Lastly, the next region appears fullish in both pictures. At no point do the pictures Reality and Fake News disagree with each other, despite how different they look.

You know how people take deceptive pictures to make small crowds look large? They are doing something similar, by choosing to look at camera angles that cover up the blank spaces between the groups of people. The direct comparison between Trump's inauguration and Obama's 2009 inauguration is apt, and Trump's inauguration was indeed sparsely populated compared to Obama's. Even the pro-Trump propaganda proves it. I originally wrote this for the Trump subreddit, but it was either caught by a filter or immediately removed by a mod.