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The Women’s March on Washington took place Saturday, bringing a crowd that, by the looks and estimates, outnumbered the people who turned out to the National Mall for U.S. President Donald Trump’s inauguration a day earlier.
The march was estimated to have brought over half a million people to D.C., as people “join[ed] in diversity to show our presence in numbers too great to ignore.”
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Women’s March on Washington: People gather in Montreal for women’s rights -
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Women’s March on Washington: Torontonians show support for rally in DC -
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Vancouver residents march in rally to show support for Women’s March on Washington -
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Women’s March on Washington: People gather in L.A. for women’s march -
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Women’s March on Washington: People gather in Chicago for women’s march
This is what the National Mall looked like when Trump was sworn into office on Friday.
And this is what it looked like during the Women’s March on Washington.
CNN also drew a stark contrast in a tweet.
READ MORE: Women’s March on Washington vs. Trump inauguration, by the numbers
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It’s not the first time that Trump’s inauguration crowd has been compared to another, bigger one.
Photos emerged on Friday, that showed a clear difference between Trump’s crowd and the one that greeted Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2008.
Trump had his own ideas about how many people were in D.C. for his inauguration.
WATCH BELOW: Trump claims there were over a million people at Inauguration speech
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