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National Mall crowd was bigger for Women’s March than Trump inauguration

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The much-anticipated Women's March on Washington began Saturday afternoon as thousands gathered on the streets to protest against Donald Trump – Jan 21, 2017

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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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This is what the National Mall looked like when Trump was sworn into office on Friday.

The National Mall in D.C. during the inauguration of President Donald Trump on Jan. 20, 2017. AP Photo

And this is what it looked like during the Women’s March on Washington.

With the U.S. Capitol in the background, a crowd overflows onto the National Mall during the Women’s March on Washington during the first full day of Donald Trump’s presidency, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017 in Washington, D.C. Lucas Jackson/Pool Photo via AP

CNN also drew a stark contrast in a tweet.

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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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Trump claims there were over a million people at Inauguration speech

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