PropertyValue
?:author
?:datePublished
  • 2019-07-05 (xsd:date)
?:headline
  • Does This Photo Show the Crowd at Trump's 4th of July Event? (en)
?:inLanguage
?:itemReviewed
?:mentions
?:reviewBody
  • On July 4, 2019, U.S. President Donald Trump posted a photograph purportedly showing a great crowd of tremendous Patriots who assembled 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, and it also sparked a number of comments from viewers who accused President Trump of sharing a photograph that had been digitally altered in order to make the crowd size appear larger. Twitter user Culpable Crimes, for instance, claimed that Trump's staff had superimposed a picture of a crowd from a 2008 concert at the National Mall over a picture of the crowd at Salute to America, then shared it as if it were real. That Twitter account also claimed that all of the live feeds of the event were shut down so viewers wouldn't be able to form an accurate view of the crowd size. Several other Twitter users also spread this rumor on social media: But the picture that President Trump shared of the July 4th crowd was real. Photographer Susan Walsh took a very similar photograph 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 captured plenty of people on the National Mall for Salute to America: Social media users claiming that Trump's staff doctored the photograph with a crowd shot from a 2008 concert weren't actually sharing an image from 2008, but rather a still from the White House's live video feed of Salute to America. The White House's live stream is no longer available, but Politico reporter Blake Hounshell attributed the Salute crowd picture to that live feed when he shared it on Twitter: One reason social media users may have been thought President Trump's picture was doctored was because other photographs taken earlier in the day showed a sparsely packed National Mall, likely because Washington experienced some inclement weather on the July 4th holiday: 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. (en)
?:reviewRating
rdf:type
?:url