President Donald Trump, who still hasn't recovered from the fact that more people attended President Obama's first inauguration than his own, tweeted a photo this afternoon of the people assembled on the National Mall on Friday.
"A photo delivered yesterday that will be displayed in the upper/lower press hall," he wrote. "Thank you Abbas!"
It seems Trump was so transfixed by how big and mighty the photographer, Abbas Shirmohammadi, who runs Panoramic Visions in Washington, made his audience look that he failed to notice the plaque was printed with the wrong date.
The photo is dated January 21, 2017.
Trump was sworn in on January 20, 2017.
But anyhoo! Shirmohammadi told the New York Daily News that the mistake was an accident.
"It was midnight, it was such a rush," he said. "We just corrected it."
He didn't comment on the size of the turnout relative to previous inaugural ones, but did note that "on the left side of the photograph, in the second section, there are some empty seats."
Alternative facts? Alternative dates? This world? Some parallel universe in which Dippin' Dots have been made enemies of the state? Honestly, who knows anymore?
