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  1. Jan 2017
    1. This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration -- period -- both in person and around the globe.

      False. 1965 - about 1.2 million people attended Lyndon B. Johnson's inauguration; in 2009 an estimated 1.9 million people attended Obama's inauguration; in 2013 about 1 million attended Obama's inauguration. See Washington Post, January 22, 2017.

    2. Secondly, photographs of the inaugural proceedings were intentionally framed in a way, in one particular tweet, to minimize the enormous support that had gathered on the National Mall.

      False. There were about 160,000 people in the area of the National Mall leading up to Trump's speech. See New York Times, January 22, 2017.