IF YOU WERE WATCHING THE INAUGURATION TODAY YOU PROBABLY
COULDN'T HELP BUT NOTICE THAT THE CROWD WASN'T ALL THAT BIG
LEAGUE.
SO WE ARE GOING TO SHOW YOU SOME PHOTOS, THIS IS 2009,
YOU WILL SEE THE MALL THERE.
THAT IS HUGE.
THAT'S A BIG, NICE, WIDE SHOT, LET'S JUMP FORWARD TO 2017.
IT'S
NOT QUITE THE SAME SHOT, IT MIGHT BE A LITTLE DIFFICULT --
THERE IS A LOT OF WHITE SPACE, SO LET'S GO TO THE SPLIT SCREEN
-- THAT'S DIFFERENT.
THAT'S PRETTY DIFFERENT RIGHT THERE.
NOW, I KNOW THERE IS DISPUTE ABOUT EXACTLY WHEN THEY WERE
TAKEN, SOME PEOPLE ARE SAYING, WELL, THE 2017 PHOTO WAS TAKEN
30 MINUTES BEFORE THE SPEECH STARTED -- I'M PRETTY SURE
PEOPLE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE WAITING FOR HOURS FOR A
PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION SPEECH.
I WAS IN DC IN '09 FOR OBAMA'S FIRST INAUGURATION, I WAS THERE
AT 3 AM AND I HAD A TICKET FOR THE LAWN, BUT IN ORDER TO GET TO
WHERE YOU WERE SPOT TO BE, NOT SEATED BUT STANDING, YOU HAD TO
GET THERE -- I WAS STAYING IN SPRINGFIELD, THE SUBWAYS WERE
JAMMED, I DIDN'T LEAVE THE CITY THE REST OF THE DAY BECAUSE YOU
COULDN'T, I WALKED THE ENTIRE CITY, I WAS DEAD TIRED.
THE
SHEER NUMBER OF PEOPLE, YOU COULDN'T MOVE.
GETTING AROUND
WAS A PROBLEM -- I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE NUMBERS WERE, BUT YOU
CAN'T SAY THAT PICTURE WAS TAKEN 30 MINUTE BEFORE -- PEOPLE HAVE
TO FINISH THEIR SENTENCE.
WAS THE PICTURE TAKEN 30 MINUTES
AHEAD OF TIME?
WHAT HAPPENED IN THE LAST 30 MINUTES?
DID 1.5
MILLION PEOPLE SHOW UP AT THE SAME TIME?
WE DID THE LIVE COVERAGE DURING THE SPEECH, YOU COULD SEE
HUGE SECTIONS OF THE TARP THAT WERE EMPTY.
IT'S WHITE TARP AND
IT STANDS OUT CLEARLY, MAYBE TRUMP JUST WANTED TO MAKE
AMERICA WHITE AGAIN, BUT THERE WAS NO QUESTION THE PLACE WAS
NOT FILLED.
AND JUST ON THE YOUNG TURKS ALONE WE'VE COVERED
FOUR INAUGURATIONS AND I'VE NEVER SEEN EMPTY SPOTS AT ONE.
WHEN THEY DO THE MARCHING PAST AND HE IS OBSERVING THEM,
THE STANDS ARE ANTI-.
THE LAST SECTION WHERE HE GOT OUT OF THE LIMO AND WAS WALKING,
THEY WERE SHOWING THE BLEACHERS, WHICH ARE NOT 10,000 PERSON
BLEACHERS, JUST A FEW ROWS, AND THEY WERE LARGELY EMPTY IN
THE SECTION HE WAS WALKING.
THE ROSE PARADE HAD BETTER CROWDS.
WE WILL LOOK AT THE ESTIMATES OF VARIOUS INAUGURATIONS FROM
POLITIFACT -- BARACK OBAMA HAD A BIG DROP-OFF FROM 2009 TO 2013
BUT IT WAS STILL 1 MILLION, GEORGE W. BUSH DID OKAY, HE DID
BETTER IN 2005 AFTER HE LEGITIMATELY WON AN ELECTION, I
SUPPOSE.
BILL CLINTON, BIG WIN THERE, AND IT WAS MUCH SMALLER
BACK IN THE 80S BUT THAT'S WHEN IT WAS STILL SORT OF NEW I
GUESS.
ACCORDING TO DAN GROSS, TRUMP 2017, THE ESTIMATE ESTIMAT
WILL BE 250,000.
THERE WILL BE ESTIMATES COMING OUT IN THE NEXT
WEEKS, BUT THEY SAY THIS IS A CONSERVATIVE ESTIMATE, PROBABLY
GIVING HIM PEOPLE WHO WERE TO THERE.
THEY SAY SOME ARGUMENTS
FROM CONSERVATIVES ARE, ALL OF HIS SUPPORTERS ARE WORKERS --
GEORGE W. BUSH'S WEREN'T?
AND THEY SAY IT'S COLD.
BRING THIS
UP, BACK DURING OBAMA'S IT WAS 28∞, IT WAS COLD.
I WOULD AVOID GOING TO OBAMA'S INAUGURATION EVEN IF YOU
SENT ME FOR FREE, IT SOUNDS TERRIBLE.
MAYBE THE WARMEST PART OF THE DAY WAS 28, IT WAS 17 WHEN I WAS
THERE.
NO INTEREST.
AND IT WAS DARK WHEN YOU GOT OUT THERE, BUT YOU WERE THERE
THE WHOLE TIME.
EVEN WHEN THE SUN CAME UP MAYBE IT GOT UP THAT
HIGH.
BUT THERE WAS AN ENERGY SO YOU FELT A LITTLE BETTER, THE
PROBLEM WAS THE STANDING PART.
AND WHEN IT COMES TO THE
NUMBERS, INSTEAD OF -- IF YOU ARE A TRUMP SUPPORTER, COOL, BUT
MAYBE EMBRACE WHAT YOU HAVE.
YOU CAN'T SAY IT WAS THE SAME, OR OH
MY GOD, PEOPLE WERE LAZY, THEY SHOWED UP TO GET THEIR OBAMA
PHONE -- WHATEVER.
JUST SAY WE ARE GROUNDBREAKING CABAL OF
PEOPLE, WE ARE THE ONLY ONES WHO UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS GUY IS
GOING TO DO.
EMBRACE THAT YOU HAVE A SMALL CROWD, THAT'S FINE,
JUST ACCEPT THAT NOT EVERYONE IS EXCITED ABOUT THIS GUY.
HOW FUNNY WOULD IT BE IF TOMORROW TRUMP STARTED
COMPLAINING ABOUT THE NEWS TAKING SHOTS OF THE CROWD?
ARE YOU KIDDING?
OF COURSE HE'S GOING TO.
TOTALLY.
WHILE HE WAS CAMPAIGNING AT RALLIES HE WAS
LIKE, THEY WON'T TAKE SHOTS OF THE CROWD.
NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN --
HE WILL USE THE TERM "RECORD TURNOUT" IN A TWEET TOMORROW.
I GET IT, OBAMA WAS A HISTORIC INAUGURATION, THAT'S WHAT HE
BROKE THE RECORD, TRUMP IS HISTORIC, HE'S THE FIRST ORANGE
PRESIDENT.
BUT IT'S MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, I DON'T WHY THE
RIGHT-WING IS DEFENSIVE ABOUT IT, JUST SAY WE WON THE
ELECTION.
THEY ARE NOT DEFENSIVE, TRUMP IS DEFENSIVE.
HE'S INSECURE.
HE
HATES THE FACT THAT HILLARY WON THE POPULAR VOTE BY
MILLIONS, HE HATES THE FACT THAT PEOPLE DON'T APPROVE OF HIM.
HIS APPROVAL RATINGS ARE MISERABLE.
HIS APPROVAL RATINGS ARE LOWER THAN BUSH'S AFTER KATRINA.
BUSH'S WAS 43% AFTER KATRINA, HIS OUR 40% GOING IN.
WHEN THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE AT THEIR HIGHEST.
A QUINNIPIAC POLL HAS HIM AT 37.
THE PEOPLE WHO VOTED FOR HIM DON'T EVEN APPROVE OF HIM.
20% HAVE DROPPED OFF?
NOT JUST THAT, ON THE DAY OF THE ELECTION THEY SAID WE DON'T
APPROVE OF HIM AND DON'T THINK HE'S QUALIFIED, THAT WAS 15
OR 17% OF HIS VOTERS.
THE REASON THEY CARE ABOUT THIS AND THEY ARE TRYING TO
FIGHT BACK WITH THEIR B.S.
ARGUMENTS ABOUT THE CROWD BEING
BIGGER IS THAT THEY DON'T WANT THE APPEARANCE THAT THEY ARE A
TINY LITTLE ELITE GROUP WHO HAS COME IN, THEY WANT SOME OF THAT
MOVEMENT AURA THAT OBAMA HAD COMING IN, WHEN HE WAS ACTUALLY
THE LEADER OF THE MOVEMENT.
THEY KEEP SAYING THEY HAVE THIS BIG
FORCE OF REGULAR AMERICANS, THE FORGOTTEN AMERICANS, BEHIND
THEM, BUT APPARENTLY AMERICANS FORGOT TO GO TO THE
INAUGURATION.
THEY DON'T HAVE THAT MOVEMENT OR SUPPORT, BUT
THEY WANT THE IDEA OF IT SO THEY COULD RULE AS THOUGH THEY HAVE
SOME SORT OF MANDATE.
THAT'S RIGHT, TWO REASONS WHY IS THEY THINK THE SIZE OF
ANYTHING MEANS THE SIZE OF THEIR PENIS.
SO THEY ARE LIKE, BELIEVE
ME, IT'S WONDERFUL DOWN THERE.
TRUST ME, IT'S MUCH BIGGER WHEN IT'S NOT COLD OUT.
THAT IS HILARIOUS.
THE SECOND REASON IS POLICY REASONS, OBAMA DID HAVE ALL THE
PEOPLE BEHIND HIM, WHEN HE GOT INTO OFFICE HE HAD AN 84%
APPROVAL RATING, HE COULD'VE DONE ANYTHING HE WANTED, HE
COULD OF MARCH THOSE 1.8 MILLION PEOPLE ANYWHERE AND GOTTEN NOT
JUST HEALTHCARE, BUT YOU CAN GO DOWN THE LIST -- ENERGY, FREE
COLLEGE, FREE EDUCATION, CLIMATE CHANGE -- HE COULD HAVE DONE IT
ALL, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT HE DID WHEN HE WAS IN THIS TRANSITION?
HE KEPT A LOT OF THE BUSH PEOPLE IN -- THERE IS NOTHING WRONG
WITH THAT -- BECAUSE HE DIDN'T WANT ANY HOLES LEFT IN NATIONAL
SECURITY, ETC.
TRUMP MADE THE OBAMA PEOPLE, EVEN THOUGH HE HAS
NOT FILLED THOSE POSITIONS, MADE THEM LEAVE THE BUILDING.
NOW HE
IS PRETENDING HE HAS BIG CROWDS AND BIG APPROVAL RATINGS BECAUSE
HE WILL JAM EVERYTHING THROUGH EVEN THOUGH HE LITERALLY COMES
IN WITH HALF OF THE APPROVAL RATING OF OBAMA.
BUT THAT GOES
TO SHOW YOU, I'M NOT BLAMING TRUMP FOR IT -- IF I WAS A TRUMP
FAN I WOULD SAY I'M STRONG, YOU ARE NOT, I'M GOING TO DO
WHATEVER I WANT, BELIEVE ME.
IF WE HAD A PROGRESSIVE PRESIDENT
WHO IN ANY WAY LISTENS TO US, MEANING OUR AUDIENCE AND THE NEW
WAY OF DOING THINGS, I DO IT WITH 40%.
YOU GIVE ME 80 OR 60%,
WE WILL GET SOME REAL CHANGE IN THIS COUNTRY.
AND I DON'T MEAN
I'LL TALK ABOUT CHANGE AND FILL MY CABINET WITH GOLDEN SEX GUYS
WHO ARE LOOKING TO ROB YOU.