Donald Trump wants a record crowd for his inauguration

[UCmeNdc]

In a tweet a week ago, Donald Trump urged his fans to head to Washington to see him get sworn in on Jan. 20.

"Let's set the all time record!" tweeted the president-elect.

But planners who are gearing up for the big day predict that Trump will fall way short of his goal: They're estimating a crowd of roughly 800,000, fewer than half the 1.8 million people who attended President Barack Obama's first inauguration in 2009.

"It's not even close to a record," said Jim Bendat, a California expert on presidential inauguration history, who wrote a book on the subject.


http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/donald-trump-wants-a-record-crowd-for-his-inauguration-but-he-may-be-disappointed/

[MFM008]

1. He's going to get record

Crowds of protestor' s .

[UCmeNdc]

2. I hope the protesters really show a sign that they are there to protest

The media will play them as Donald Trump supporters and brag about Trump's big crowd.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

8. If all the protestors wore red or yellow jackets there'd be no doubt they were there.

[JudyM]

14. Or black.

[3catwoman3]

28. Not red. That is "their' color...

...and could be misinterpreted as Republican'ts.

Bright, bright blue would be my recommendation.

[EL34x4]

22. So will Trump.

He wants a big crowd. They don't all have to be supporters.

The protesters who he admonishes his supporters to "don't hurt 'em!" or "get 'em outta here!" have just as big a role to play in the "Donald Trump Experience" as his supporters do.

The whole city could burn on January 20th and Trump would tweet, "It was YUGE!"

[lunasun]

6. I hope 25 percent are there to flip him the finger when he goes by or boo

[Arkansas Granny]

3. Everything is a contest with him. He must feel very inferior.

[3catwoman3]

29. He should.

He IS very inferior.

[pnwest]

4. Well, just like his "landslide" victory,

if 5 people show up, he'll say it was a record-breaking crowd...

[mahatmakanejeeves]

12. And he'd be right, but not in a way he'd want to be. NT

[Kolesar]

5. Lebron and the Cavs got a bigger crowd in Cleveland

last summer

[lunasun]

7. Yes they did and so did the Cubs in Chicago . Both this year & both so much more popular than him

Good point

[Kolesar]

20. You had to bring up the Cubs

We are just a humble, small market, midwestern town with a modest player budget.

[lunasun]

27. The OP is about crowd size and I thought you were referring to the Cavs celebration crowd size

No one I know was paid out of a budget go to the Cubs celebration and Chicago is in the Midwest .
Humble is something usually others decide about a subject ...

[MADem]

9. Let the protesters in and he'll have RECORD crowds--LOL!!! nt

[Vinca]

10. "Head to Washington and don't forget your brown shirts."

[onecaliberal]

11. Uhm, a huge steaming pile is all he attracts

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[Tommy_Carcetti]

13. He'll shatter Dubya's record

Of people wanting to egg his motorcade.

[Gothmog]

15. A record for protesters

[Ken Burch]

16. He could bus in his casino and hotel employees for the day.

(He'd dock 'em for transportation costs and missing work, though...what, you thought the Trumpentariat got days off?).

[Ken Burch]

17. Which begs the question...if the crowds look extra-small, will he bar the networks from covering it?

(and then just send out a delayed feed with rally-crowd footage edited in)?

[Rex]

18. Fuck him.

[Duke Silver]

19. TrumPutin can want what he wants

I hope even the protestors stay away so as to not be counted among the deplorable supporters. I refuse to watch any of the Inauguration coverage, but I hope reports I watch later show camera shots that clearly reveal a crowd that is minuscule in relation to past inaugurations.

[Ilsa]

26. I'm in agreement with you. And protesting him

Gives him more attention that he craves. Ignoring him, at times like this, is the best response, I think. I don't like the idea of a protest concert, either. It feels like it could be a commercial endeavor.

[oasis]

21. I hope it rains like never before. With plenty of lightning bolts.

[3catwoman3]

30. And gale force winds...

...to mess with his troll doll hair.

[EffieBlack]

23. It won't matter. He'll claim it's a record anyway

[Arkansas Granny]

32. Exactly. He thinks everyone should accept his vision of reality.

[Mc Mike]

24. Looks like reality is smacking dRumpf and the repugs in the face again.

And notice how he lyingly claims a huge landslide and mandate, but then nevertheless his planners and proxies have to try to deal with actual reality.

Can't predict the actual turnout here, or how the pro repug corporate media will spin it, but it looks like his flunkies know he's less than half as popular as Prez O, in terms of committed supporters who are willing to turn out to support him in person for his big day.

That doesn't bode well for the repuglinazis' attempt to prove they have their hitler's magical 10%.

So dRumpf "won" by negative 3 million votes, Obama won by 9.5 million and 5.9 million votes. And we've seen for 8 years how much respect and cooperation they gave our prez, with those super majority vote numbers. It won't be too hard to pay the repugs and their minority prez back with the same currency the repugs minted themselves. Disrespect, non-cooperation, complete dismissal, 100% opposition.

They did it to our Prez, who earned respect and cooperation via crushing election victories, which was never given. We can do it to their guy, who earned nothing, was swamped by voters in the election.

And he never earned anything in his entire miserable 70 year existence.

[tavernier]

25. He does like to keep the buzz going on both sides.

I prefer to not give him the time of day or an ounce of interest. If I do remember the date, I'll make sure my set is turned to a different channel, and that's all the energy and attention I plan to expend.

[3catwoman3]

31. The Mormon Tabernacle Choir is pretty big.

They will probably get included in the attendance tally.