Trump claims media 'dishonest' over crowd photos

Trump’s Inauguration (left) and Obama’s in 2009, viewed from the Washington Monument

President Donald Trump has accused the media of dishonesty over the number of people attending his inauguration.

Mr Trump said "it looked like" some 1.5m people had been there when he spoke at the US Capitol on Friday.

Later, his White House press secretary said it had been "the largest audience to ever see an inauguration, period".

Neither man has produced evidence to back their claims. And photographs appear to show many more attending the inauguration of Barack Obama in 2009.

On Saturday, millions in the US and around the world protested against Mr Trump's new administration.

The largest US rally was in the capital Washington, which city officials estimated to be more than 500,000-strong, followed by New York with some 400,000 and hundreds of thousands elsewhere, including Chicago and Los Angeles.

The aim was mainly to highlight women's rights, which activists believe to be under threat from the new administration.

Mr Trump did not mention the protests during a bridge-building visit to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, on Saturday but instead turned on the press.

He accused the media of inventing a feud between him and the intelligence community.

But outgoing CIA Director John Brennan berated Mr Trump's "despicable display of self-aggrandisement in front of CIA's Memorial Wall of agency heroes".