Depicting large cities as death traps gets them to the polls, not the parade route [update]
I’m sure America’s ratings conscious president will not be bothered by this at all.
Parade route from Capital to WH. Entire stands empty. Crowd thin. pic.twitter.com/7AcpJkBO8O
— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) January 20, 2017
Apparently Team Trump is currently blaming the weather (mid-40s, rainy), which doesn’t say much about his supporters compared to the million + delicate liberal flowers who braved the freezing cold in 2009. Perhaps they’ll grab pictures of all the protest marches and say those are tRump supporters. They already tried using a crowd shot of Obama’s inauguration as his Twitter banner.
As an aside (I’m going to try another prediction) I think this ups the chance that he’ll ^ cancel the local Women’s March tomorrow. Not because he cares about order, but because it’s promising to draw a much larger crowd. (I’m still heading down though.)
^try to
Update – This isn’t pathetic at all.
Hearing from Trumpers that there were more people there, just crowded together more so took up less space.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) January 20, 2017