The inauguration is remembered less for the speech—aggressive, vulgar, a striking downgrade of American political language—than for the battle of realities that followed. There was the issue of crowd size. A reporter for The New York Times tweeted two images side by side: aerial photographs of the 2009 and 2017 inaugurations showing a sea of bodies at the Obama event and white spaces at the Trump one. The official Twitter account of the National Park Service retweeted the images, along with another tweet, of an Esquire magazine item noting that civil rights, climate change, and health care
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