The best Side-By-Side article on the Web I've seen.

www.pri.org/stories/2017-01-20/photos-compare-crowd-trumps-inauguration-obamas

Nobody cares how many people attended either inauguration. On one hand, you have the first black president with high approval ratings at inauguration. Pretty historic. A lot of people want to be a part of that. Recently, you have just another old white guy. No novelty with low approval ratings, but more than enough EC votes. Independent public transit numbers correlate.

It is what it is. it's true. PSU gets 100,000 fans. Pitt gets 25,000 fans. Pitt beats PSU last year. Scoreboard. Crowd size is not a meaningful metric.

So why lie? Repeatedly. Why concoct conspiracy theories about time of day and photoshop and "biggest ever"? To accept a lie is to endorse a liar. To KNOWINGLY endorse a liar is to accept their version of evil. To accept their evil is to compromise your own integrity. To compromise your own integrity, it to destroy your own soul. For what? To hail the Cheeto in Chief. To be on a "winning" side. Because you hated Obama. To blindly follow the Tangerine Tantrum over this cliff is the insane destruction of independent thought and reason. It's abdicating consciousness to the collective gas-lighting mindfuck. State-run media by a narcissistic demagogue is more reliable than "main stream" sources? Tons of them. Reporting the exact same thing independently. All coming to similar, rational conclusions. God, the depths of hate the alt-righters have tilled have reduced previous rational people to gibbering potatoes and they're blind to it... unquestioning and accepting of alternate facts and pseudo-science just the way the Impulsive Imp wants you all to be. So you'll build his tiny-hands compensation monument wall let him pump lots of oil to make all his swamp snakes even richer while the world burns.

Nobody cares about the size of the crowd. To accept the lie without question is to fail your country.