Trump's Official Inauguration Photos Were Doctored After Trump Complained There Were Too Many "Empty Areas' In The Pictures
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A government photographer edited official pictures of Donald Trump’s inauguration to make the crowd appear bigger following a personal intervention from the president, according to newly released documents.
The photographer cropped out empty space “where the crowd ended” for a new set of pictures requested by Trump on the first morning of his presidency, after he was angered by images showing his audience was smaller than Barack Obama’s in 2009.
The detail was revealed in investigative reports released to the Guardian under the Freedom of Information Act by the inspector general of the US interior department. They shed new light on the first self-inflicted crisis of Trump’s presidency, when his White House falsely claimed he had attracted the biggest ever inauguration audience .
The records detail a scramble within the National Park Service (NPS) on 21 January 2017 after an early-morning phone call between Trump and the acting NPS director, Michael Reynolds. They also state that Sean Spicer , then White House press secretary, called NPS officials repeatedly that day in pursuit of the more flattering photographs.
It was not clear from the records which photographs were edited and whether they were released publicly.
The newly disclosed details were not included in the inspector general’s office’s final report on its inquiry into the saga, which was published in June last year and gave a different account of the NPS photographer’s actions.
By the time Trump spoke on the telephone with Reynolds on the morning after the inauguration, then-and-now pictures of the national mall were circulating online showing that Trump’s crowd fell short of Obama’s. A reporter’s tweet containing one such pair of images was retweeted by the official NPS Twitter account .
An NPS communications official, whose name was redacted in the released files, told investigators that Reynolds called her after speaking with the president and said Trump wanted pictures from the inauguration. She said “she got the impression that President Trump wanted to see pictures that appeared to depict more spectators in the crowd”, and that the images released so far showed “a lot of empty areas”.
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I thought it was pretty silly that Trump would make a thing out of this. Having said that, 18 months have passed. Continuing to focus on this might be even sillier.
This was just released due to a Freedom Of Information order. That is why it is coming out now.
Most people did, but to trump, his ego must be stroked. He doesn't ask people to stroke his ego, he DEMANDS it. He has said several times that, "[insert person here] should be praising me more for helping them". Ego is everything to trump. Day one he comes out of the gate only to find out Obama's crowd was bigger than his? You bet trump is going to do everything he can to reverse that.
Trumps ego comes first... The funny part is people saying Obama is an egotistical a-hole. Trump literally wanted the pictures altered JUST so his crowd would LOOK bigger than Obama's. Right out of the gate, day ONE. Should have been a huge red flag, and was to MANY people, but most of the trump supporters began their quest that day, to deny the facts even when there was photo evidence.