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I watched the Trump parade stuff for ~5m. Fox was extremely careful and there wasn't a single shot of looking out at the crowd. The crowd must be very small. I wonder how many people are there. (hexbear.net)

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[-] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 27 points 2 days ago

I'm not sure if it's the same feed you were watching, but my quick look at this feed didn't show many people in DC at all.

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 31 points 2 days ago

By pure chance I started watching just a few minutes before Trump himself came to the stage. The footage was so controlled - it felt like I was watching a cheapie made-for-tv movie or something and for some reason they had to scrap the CGI crowd stuff they were going to use as quickie filler. There was no no crowd footage at all. The Hail to the Chief played, the president plus his wife came out, and they sat down. And that was it. On top of that - were the two tanks in front of the stage. Z-level set design.