Former First Lady Michelle Obama took a shot at Donald Trump’s inauguration crowd size, saying not many people were there despite the former president’s claim there was “massive” turnout that day.
Obama made the comment in the first episode of her podcast “Michelle Obama: The Light Podcast,” while describing her family’s last day in the White House after eight years.
“You walk through the Capitol, you wave goodbye, you get on Marine One, and you take your last flight flying over the Capitol. Where there weren’t that many people there — we saw it, by the way!” Obama said in a clip obtained by People Magazine
Obama said she was also struck by the lack of diversity at Trump’s inauguration.
”To sit on that stage and watch the opposite of what we represented on display — there was no diversity, there was no color on that stage,” she said. “There was no reflection of the broader sense of America.”
Trump has famously bragged about the size of the crowd at his inauguration in 2017, and his administration defended those lies.
During the first White House briefing, then-press secretary Sean Spicer insisted that the crowd was the largest of any president in history.
Photos released by the National Park Service showed that was not the case as the crowd was significantly smaller compared to President Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009.
The first episode of Michelle Obama’s podcast will air Tuesday on Audible.
