As the royal wedding unfolded and guests arrived at Windsor Castle on Saturday for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s ceremony, BBC Three launched a trolling campaign on its Twitter account in a bid to make fun of the biggest event of the year in the UK.
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BBC Three compared the picture of President Trump’s inauguration crowd, which POTUS claimed “looked like a million, a million and a half people,” to the massive crowd gathered in the streets of London to watch the royals tie the knot.
just saying ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ pic.twitter.com/1zoOGFKeU3
— BBC Three (@bbcthree) 19 мая 2018 г.
While many users were excited and started sending their favorite crowd pics…
Queen at Knebworth though? #RockRoyalty pic.twitter.com/gzgqiCXl2O
— Martin Baker (@ytfcbadger) 19 мая 2018 г.
The Stones in Brazil?? 😳😳👌 pic.twitter.com/laJVYVDQEa
— Back To Reality (@Murphy4Mike) 19 мая 2018 г.
Metallica in Russia 😂 pic.twitter.com/fPpfGaqZjx
— Jose Andrade (@jandrade) 19 мая 2018 г.
Michael Jackson in Liverpool pic.twitter.com/bXBkACGaqE
— Rob 😇😈 (@robcanario) 19 мая 2018 г.
Philadelphia Eagles Superbowl parade. pic.twitter.com/DtdHr75ldW
— TERI (@terilyns68) 20 мая 2018 г.
…others defended the US President:
Not only was the photo on the left taken while people were still arriving (I was there) but the dems & media stirred up so much violence that people were afraid to attend.
— Staci 🐉 🇺🇸 (@Staciopath) 20 мая 2018 г.
Yep and its been proven that it was taken before everyone arrived. But they dont care!
— Teresa Meece (@T_Meece) 20 мая 2018 г.
President Trumps inauguration…after people arrived not at 6am like BBC Three posted. #FAKENEWS pic.twitter.com/t4iC0uVtV8
— eddie sessum (@nobaddog) 20 мая 2018 г.
The crowd-size controversy raised the ire of Donald Trump on his inauguration day because a host of media outlets showed that many more Americans came out for Barack Obama’s swearing-in in 2009. The commander-in-chief and his aides claimed that the media had played down the crowds, insisting that record numbers of people had attended the ceremony; then-press secretary Sean Spicer called it “the largest audience ever to witness an inauguration.”
Compare the crowds: 2009 inauguration at left, 2017 inauguration at right.#Inauguration pic.twitter.com/y7RhIR2nfC
— Binyamin Appelbaum (@BCAppelbaum) 20 января 2017 г.
Spicer went on to accuse journalists of “deliberately” reporting inaccurate numbers and using misrepresentative photographs “to minimize the enormous support” that the newly-sworn-in president enjoyed. At the time, Kellyanne Conway, a senior White House aide, told NBC’s Meet the Press that Spicer was merely offering “alternative facts.”
