Washington – Patriots Hit Back At New York Times Over Misleading White House Crowd Size Tweet

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    Washington – The New England Patriots are taking issue with a New York Times photo comparison that suggested a significantly smaller turnout for a Super Bowl celebration at the White House with President Donald Trump than one two years ago with President Barack Obama.

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    The Times on Wednesday tweeted an Associated Press photo of the Patriots standing behind Obama on the south side of the White House in 2015. Stairs on either side of the main group were filled with people. The tweet compared it with a Times photo taken Wednesday showing both staircases empty.

    The Patriots responded on Twitter that the photos lack context, saying football staff sat on the South Lawn instead of standing on the stairs this year.

    The Times tweeted an update saying that the Pats told them fewer players attended this year, but the total delegation was about the same.
    President Donald Trump speaks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, April 19, 2017, during a ceremony where he honored the Super Bowl Champion New England Patriots for their Super Bowl LI victory. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)


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    PaulinSaudi
    PaulinSaudi
    6 years ago

    OK, I will pretend I care. Tell me the actual number of visitors for each event. “About the same” is not good enough.

    bsnow
    bsnow
    6 years ago

    Who care. Obumer had loser zombies who had no jobs and nothing better to do!
    Obumer was the worse president!
    We screwed everything up!
    No more demacrats

    AlbertEinstein
    AlbertEinstein
    6 years ago

    New York Slime is so desperate to disparage the President – especially in favor of their god, Obama – that they have lost whatever shred of credibility they never had.

    Haimov
    Haimov
    6 years ago

    The visitors log confidential.Nobody knows the truth.

    6 years ago

    We are watching one of the developments of the current era in which the image is supreme, and truth is not. This empowers the baloney of the media, and the advent of social media simply takes this dependence on false images to a new level. Are there any subscribers to morality left?

    ayinglefunadorf
    ayinglefunadorf
    6 years ago

    The bottom line is: Much more people at the Obama event.

    hashomer
    hashomer
    6 years ago

    If the Trumpoids are yapping about crowd size, you know the Orange Yam’s administration is in trouble.