WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump used his first full day in office Saturday to unleash a remarkably bitter attack on the news media, falsely accusing journalists of both inventing a rift between him and intelligence agencies and deliberately understating the size of his inauguration crowd. On 20 January 2017, multiple media outlets began posting side-by-side photographs of the crowds at former President Barack Obama's 2009 inauguration and President Donald Trump's 2017 inauguration:



 Obama's inauguration set a record for attendance with an estimated 1.8 million people, as it was a historical event: he was the first African-American U.S. president to take office, and his first 2009 inauguration generated wide viewership worldwide. WASHINGTON, D.C—Roughly half a million people of all ages, backgrounds and genders crammed into the nation’s capital a day after President Donald Trump took the oath of office—a demonstration that called itself the “Women’s March,” but protested the GOP agenda on healthcare, immigration and the rights of racial and sexual minorities. On Saturday, he told his advisers that he wanted to push back hard on “dishonest media” coverage — mostly referring to a Twitter post from a New York Times reporter showing side by side frames of Trump’s crowd and Obama’s in 2009. Demonstrators carried “GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN-DAMENTAL RIGHTS,” “Women Scientists Against Trump,” “I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change, I am changing the things I can’t accept” and “LOVE MAKES AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.” And they yelled and shouted, “Thank you Obama!,” “My body, my choice!” and “When they go low, we go high!”—the last an echo of former First Lady Michelle Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said that she came to the march to show support on behalf of women and elected officials.
A crowd of over 500,000 gather in Washington DC, U.S., to advocate for women's rights and address the inauguration of Donald Trump (The New York Times) (L.A. Times)