Is it the new math?

“There’s no way to quantify crowd numbers” Kellyanne Conway, senior counter, Trump administration.

Crowd estimations can vary from person to person depending on who’s counting.  Despite aerial photography evidence to the contrary, Sean Spicer, Presidential Press Secretary, told reporters that Trump’s inaugural crowd was “The biggest ever.” Trump himself, at CIA Headquarters on the day after his inauguration told the employees “I looked out, the field was, it looked like a million a million and a half people. Honestly, it looked like a million and a half people.”

Trump later said “Look, it’s not an exact science, whatever that is, but people who count people can get it wrong.” He went on to say “Take Woodstock for example. I’ve had my people look at pictures and the crowd estimates were way off. Believe me it looked like they counted the same people over and over again. If most of them looked the same, it’s because they were. There were no more than 10 to 12 thousand people at that concert and New Year’s Eve in Times Square, 6 to 8 hundred.

No one is going to tell me their ‘Anything’ is bigger than mine. That’s why I’m setting up the new ‘Federal Department of Counting and Alternative Facts’ Trust me, we’ll show you some of the most fabulous numbers you’ve ever seen.”