NPS offered 'corrective messaging' after White House raged over inauguration crowd photos

The National Park Service offered its assistance “in any corrective messaging” to the Trump administration after the agency’s Twitter account retweeted pictures showing a smaller crowd size for Trump’s inauguration in comparison to the crowd attending former President Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009.

Trump placed a call to acting NPS Director Mike Reynolds the day after the inauguration, asking the agency to produce additional photos of the inauguration. That weekend the White House had begun insisting that Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20 was the most watched ever, a claim which has been largely disproven.