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(86,005 posts)
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 10:25 PM Jan 2017

Obama's inaugural concert in 2009 vs. Trump's Inaugural concert today. Sad.

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Obama's inaugural concert in 2009 vs. Trump's Inaugural concert today. Tragic









Joy Reid @JoyAnnReid
The difference is staggering: an estimated 400,000 people for Obama's pre-inaugural concert vs an estimated 10,000 for Trump. https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/822253235759026176
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Obama's inaugural concert in 2009 vs. Trump's Inaugural concert today. Sad. (Original Post) bigtree Jan 2017 OP
That's probably the biggest crowd Lee Greenwood's performed for Docreed2003 Jan 2017 #1
Some of the people for Trump's concert were probably joggers and tourists that got lumped into the Yavin4 Jan 2017 #2
LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL TrekLuver Jan 2017 #4
Klan rallies were much larger in the 20's. Dawson Leery Jan 2017 #3
The numbers were pathetic. tblue37 Jan 2017 #5
Please apologize Tree-Hugger Jan 2017 #14
My mom used to keep fish, and we always had gouramis in the aquarium. nt tblue37 Jan 2017 #16
10,000??? Takket Jan 2017 #6
Yeah, and the Con had the ba**s to brag about the HUGE CROWD that was at his welcoming parade napi21 Jan 2017 #7
Many thousands more of us watched Obama's pre inaugural concert on HBO. GoCubsGo Jan 2017 #8
Trump used the military as seat fillers GreatCaesarsGhost Jan 2017 #9
A friend arrived in DC today mcar Jan 2017 #10
LOL, 10 Thousand.... Grassy Knoll Jan 2017 #11
aint like we had good weather, either. mopinko Jan 2017 #12
Porta potties outnumber the people. progressoid Jan 2017 #13
The low turnout PROVES it was a coup! Equinox Moon Jan 2017 #15

Yavin4

(35,445 posts)
2. Some of the people for Trump's concert were probably joggers and tourists that got lumped into the
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 10:28 PM
Jan 2017

count.

tblue37

(65,487 posts)
5. The numbers were pathetic.
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 10:35 PM
Jan 2017

Another accurate shot of the skimpy crowd is at 2:13 in this video:

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By the way, if you want to lose your lunch, starting at 58 seconds in, for about 3 seconds, Cheato sings along with the song, and his mouth when he sing the "U" in "USA" looks like a gourami's mouth!



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napi21

(45,806 posts)
7. Yeah, and the Con had the ba**s to brag about the HUGE CROWD that was at his welcoming parade
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 10:36 PM
Jan 2017

today! he said it was the biggest in history! ARGHHHHH

GoCubsGo

(32,088 posts)
8. Many thousands more of us watched Obama's pre inaugural concert on HBO.
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 10:38 PM
Jan 2017

Almost 45K more have watched it later on YouTube on this version alone:

mcar

(42,372 posts)
10. A friend arrived in DC today
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 10:43 PM
Jan 2017

in advance of the March. She said they were able to walk all around the Capitol and no one was around.

Grassy Knoll

(10,118 posts)
11. LOL, 10 Thousand....
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 11:04 PM
Jan 2017

...They must have included brietbart and fox news beat-offs licking his nutz on twitter.

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