On July 4, 2019, U.S. President Donald Trump posted a photograph supposedly showing a “great crowd of tremendous Patriots” on the National Mall before his speech at the “Salute to America” event:
This picture garnered thousands of retweets and more than a hundred thousand likes. It also sparked a number of comments from people accusing Trump of sharing a picture that had been digitally altered in order to make the crowd appear bigger.
Twitter user Culpable Crimes, for instance, claimed that Trump’s staff had superimposed a picture of a crowd at a 2008 concert at the National Mall over a picture of the crowd at “Salute to America,” and then shared it as if it were real. The Twitter account also claimed that all of the live feeds of the event were shut down so viewers wouldn’t be able to get an accurate view of the crowd size.
Several other Twitter users also spread this rumor on social media:
Trump staff takes a photo from a 2008 concert on the mall, super imposes it, creates a fake image, shuts down all the Cams running in the mall, and proclaims to have largest 4th of July celebration crowd in history. This is what Nazis do.
Desperate, serial lying con-man Trump floods his Twitter feed with the same bogus photoshopped image of his crowd size, which includes an old photo of a concert on the Mall that was from 2008
Trump desperately tries to CONvince people including himself the 4th of Juy crowd was much larger than it really was by PHOTOSHOPPING in the 2008 Concert On The Mall crowd into his rally.
This is the picture from the
2008 Concert On The Mall
You liar. Only the front half of the photo is your rally. The back part with the crowd is the 2008 concert at the mall.
Not only is this dishonest Photoshop, it’s bad dishonest Photoshot.
The concert pic is attached.
But the picture that Trump shared of the crowd is real. Photographer Susan Walsh took a very similar image that is available via Getty Images with the caption: “US President Donald Trump speaks during the ‘Salute to America’ Fourth of July event at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, July 4, 2019.”
Here’s an alternate view of the crowd at “Salute to America”:
A live feed from C-Span also showed plenty of people on the National Mall for “Salute to America”:
Social media users claiming that Trump’s staff doctored the photo with a crowd shot from a 2008 concert weren’t actually sharing an image from 2008. It’s actually a still from the White House’s live feed of “Salute to America.”
The White House’s live stream is no longer available, but Politico reporter Blake Hounshell attributed the “Salute” crowd photo to that live feed when he shared it on Twitter:
Here’s what the White House livestream is showing, which is presumably similar to why Trump will see. From this perspective, it looks crowded. pic.twitter.com/9oVOdS5S5a
— Blake News (@blakehounshell) July 4, 2019
One reason social media users may have been thought Trump’s picture was doctored is because other photographs taken earlier in the day showed a sparsely packed National Mall. After all, Washington, D.C., saw some inclement weather on the holiday:
When it rains, it pours. #TrumpParade pic.twitter.com/PMpY2Z2mnX
— Ksenija Pavlovic McAteer (@ksenijapavlovic) July 4, 2019
The National Park Service has not released an official estimate of the crowd size at “Salute to America.” However, Trump’s claim of a “great crowd” on the National Mall is supported by genuine photographs from the event.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/crowd-at-trump-july-4-event/
2019-07-05 16:55:41Z
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