Funny thing is, the crowd did look larger from the Capitol end.
That's because people push to the front of the area they are in and obscure the ground behind them. So looking from the Capitol, it looks like a mass of humanity.
Whereas seen from the monument end, it is clear that the crowd was relatively minuscule.
Poor old Trump doesn't appear to have figured that things can look different depending upon your perspective.
I wonder if this is the only example we will see of Trump being unable to imagine that the world looks different depending on one's perspective.
"We had a massive field of people. You saw them. Packed. I get up this morning and I turn on one of the networks and they show an empty field. I said wait a minute. I made a speech. I looked out. The field was ... it looked like a million, a million and a half people. They showed a field where there were practical nobody standing there." - Trump