The day after his inauguration, President Trump placed a call to the acting head of the National Park Service, Michael Reynolds. "I can confirm that the call took place. I can't comment on the content of the conversation," National Park Service spokesman Tom Crosson said in an email to NPR. Trump reportedly was upset over the agency's retweeting of side-by-side photos that unfavorably compared the crowd sizes at his and former President Obama's inaugurations. The retweet was later removed. "It was a, 'What's going on?' type of thing," White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders told The New York Times on Thursday night. "Why is the National Park Service tweeting out comparison photos? That was the bigger issue there." The Washington Post, which first reported the phone call , said Trump ordered Reynolds to provide photos of Inauguration Day crowds on the National Mall on Jan. 20, with the intent of proving the media "had lied in reporting that attendance was no better than average."
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