The 2009 and 2017 photos were taken one hour — and eight years — apart, with Obama’s crowds massing in the photo about one hour earlier than Trump’s audience.

Barack Obama mocked Donald Trump’s crowd size obsession and said the 2020 election wasn’t won by 'the guy complaining about ...

This pair of photos shows a view of the crowd on the National Mall at the inaugurations of President Barack Obama, above, on Jan. 20, 2009, and President Donald Trump, below, on Jan. 20, 2017.

Despite the yuge gathering, many people shared side-by-side photos on social media to show Trump's crowd compared to Obama's first crowd back in 2009.

Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, August 20, 2024. Former President Barack Obama's hand gesture as he spoke about Donald Trump's "obsession with crowd sizes" has ...

Obama listed off some of Trump’s most frequent complaints and attack strategies, including “childish nicknames . . . crazy conspiracy theories” and “this weird obsession with crowd sizes ...

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The Harris campaign on Tuesday unveiled a new ad using one of former President Trump’s chief rivals to mock him over his fixation on crowd size. The ad, titled “Crowd Size,” features footage ...

“What this does is validate the other photos that were out there in January,” said Dan Gross, who was in charge of crowd logistics for Obama’s 2013 inauguration. “It’s obvious they didn ...

Photos taken by news outlets during the inauguration also showed a crowd size smaller than Obama’s during his first inauguration in 2009 — about two-thirds smaller, according to several ...