Photos: the crowd at Donald Trump’s inauguration vs. Barack Obama’s

originally posted by: BrokedownChevy

originally posted by: xuenchen

Good work. You can see it's all empty on the sides like the aerial shots. Subways were empty, National Mall was empty. No one showed up. Lazy people.

Local hotels were all much quieter than expected too

Looks like keyboard warriors don't take their political passion beyond their computers.

originally posted by: fencesitter85
Looks like keyboard warriors don't take their political passion beyond their computers.

and yet Trump won and Hillary got beat like a red headed step child.

a reply to: Indigo5

It indicates Trump supporters actually have jobs .

a reply to: Indigo5

a reply to: norhoc

If they have jobs, then why was job creation such a strong message in his campaign?

originally posted by: Xcathdra

and yet Trump won and Hillary got beat like a red headed step child.

Beat like a red headed step child sounds more like gloating by an ape beating his chest would say, but I concur she was clearly outmaneuvered by the Trump machine and frankly I'm happy not to have to see or hear her for the next four years.

Still Trump is a crap shoot and only time will tell whether or not Trump will actually make anything better for the people.

originally posted by: edsinger
a reply to: Indigo5

Is the working week Monday through to Thursday in America!

originally posted by: djz3ro
Is the working week Monday through to Thursday in America!

Reasonable, professional jobs (the kind Republicans claim they have) let employees take extra time off, sometimes they use vacation and even get paid while not working.

a reply to: Indigo5

That Trump supporters run 26 minutes late to photo-opps?

Nope , not for the majority of us.

originally posted by: muSSang

What does that tell us about our current POTUS?

This means your an idiot if your going to judge someone based on a crowd.

Guess who did it better?

HITLER

Obama goes down as the worst president the USA has had!

Obama, the longest wartime president in history.
Obama added the most debt 9+ trillion.
Iran Deal Obama signed that will end with that monstrous nation acquiring nuclear weapons.
Facilitating Illegal Immigration
Encouraging Racial Polarization
Losing A War We Had Already Won In Iraq!

Yeah lets judge a guy by the crowd he pulls...

Wait.

How can they compare Trump to Hitler when Hitler 'drew bigger crowds' ?

LOL!

originally posted by: muSSang

That old pic resembles the big protesting going on right now across the country !!

a reply to: xuenchen

This thread reminds me of this meme.

pics.onsizzle.com...

Simple fact - less people showed up for Trump.

There may be a combination of factors why, and one of them may be that at the time of coming into office he is not as popular as he - or you - thought or may think.

You can try and deny that as much as you want, and invent all the excuses you want but it has to be taken into consideration.

See...there are approx 241 million Americans eligible to vote, and 40 percent (92 million approix) of them didn't

And of the 60 percent (138,884,643 voters) who did, approximately half of them voted for Clinton or others.

That means that - out of the total voting population Trump actually received about 63 million votes - approximately 26% of the voting population.

Thats politics for you. You have the popular mandate (well the electoral college skewed version of it) out of half of the eligible voters.

originally posted by: norhoc
a reply to: Indigo5

It indicates Trump supporters actually have jobs .

but then how do you explain the high turn out (just as Obama's) at Bush's inauguration?

thats it, you can't.

To bring up the "jobs" issue is idiocracy.

originally posted by: ColdWisdom
a reply to: Indigo5

What does that tell us about our current POTUS?

It tells me that President Trump is the first president since JFK that challenged the Status Quo.

Amen!

originally posted by: Chemicalbrother
Republicans have jobs to go to?

Yes and with the new cost of Health Insurance for working families who can afford to take off work.

I think this tells us... Nothing.

originally posted by: veracity

originally posted by: norhoc
a reply to: Indigo5

It indicates Trump supporters actually have jobs .

but then how do you explain the high turn out (just as Obama's) at Bush's inauguration?

thats it, you can't.

To bring up the "jobs" issue is idiocracy.

Trump was not supported by democrats nor the elitist republican 'never Trump' crowds. He won because the forgotten middle America voted for him! Many of which who lost their voice. They don't scream and yell very loud, they just want to enjoy their lives without a lot of fuss and regulations. That is why they prefer less urban environments.

Give them credit that they actually took notice finally to vote their minds. They won their vote and many had no need to waste their savings to go to DC. They had their voice heard through voting and have enough sense to watch the inauguration on tv! Best to celebrate with family and friends, rather than have their party disrupted by a few angry dissenters.

Edit add: Believe it or not, a lot of folks in America don't feel the need to make a big show out of themselves. They don't need to be a part of the 'crowd' to feel alive. They are confident enough to simply stand on their own. That is why...a simple vote is all that they did.

originally posted by: Indigo5
This was Trumps Inauguration today

This was Obama's in 2009

This is a split screen of the two

What does that tell us about our current POTUS?

www.vox.com...

That more white people have jobs?