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🗓️ 18 January 2025
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0:00.0 | From the first full day of Donald Trump's first term in office, it was clear that Donald |
0:05.9 | Trump was willing to lie about, well, just about anything. |
0:10.7 | This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period. |
0:15.1 | I said, wait a minute. I made a speech. I looked out. The field was, it looked like a million, a million and a half people. |
0:24.0 | They showed a field where there were practically nobody standing there. |
0:28.4 | Nobody. |
0:29.9 | Despite very clear photographic evidence, Donald Trump and his administration insisted that |
0:34.6 | his inauguration had the biggest crowd size ever. |
0:42.8 | Okay, well, on the left here is the crowd from President Obama's 2009 inauguration. |
0:44.3 | It's filled with people. |
0:46.3 | There are a lot of people in that picture. |
0:53.0 | On the right is Donald Trump's 2017 inauguration with a lot fewer people, a lot fewer people. |
0:57.7 | But Donald Trump was adamant that the public should not believe its lying eyes. |
1:03.4 | The one thing we now know for sure about Trump's second inauguration that's happening on Monday is that we won't have to deal with another debate about crowd sizes. |
1:07.5 | Because today we got the news that because of the expected frigid weather in Washington, D.C., Trump's |
1:13.5 | inauguration is going to be moved inside. Trump will now be sworn into office as the 47th president |
1:19.7 | in the Capitol Rotunda. That's the same place where President Ronald Reagan was sworn in when |
1:25.1 | his inauguration fell on a particularly cold winter day back in 1985. |
1:30.6 | The rotunda itself can only hold a few hundred people, |
1:33.9 | so the event will also be played live on the Jabotrons at the Capital One Arena, |
1:39.3 | where Trump has promised to join the crowd after the swearing-in ceremony. |
1:44.3 | Now, just to preempt any crowd-sized conversations, the Capital One arena can hold a little more |
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