US President Donald Trump has requested the National Park Service (NPS) to provide photographs, in which it appeared the inauguration crowd filled the majority of the space in the photograph, to show the biggest crowd in U.S. history, the Guardian newspaper reported.

According to the Freedom of Information Act, the records detail a scramble within the National Park Service (NPS) on 21 January 2017 after an early-morning phone call between Trump and the acting NPS director, Michael Reynolds. They also state that Sean Spicer, then White House press secretary, called NPS officials repeatedly that day in pursuit of the more flattering photographs.