So many outbursts later, it can sometimes be hard to remember way back to the First Presidential Tantrum, when Donald Trump was annoyed that his inauguration crowd had far fewer people than Barack Obama’s, and turned then-press secretary Sean Spicer into a punch line in the process.

As it turns out, Spicer’s humiliation was even more complex behind the scenes. According to new documents obtained by The Guardian, Spicer was forced to call the National Park Service repeatedly on January 21, the day after the inauguration, to ask for more flattering photographs of the crowd on the mall. A government photographer did, indeed, crop the photos to eliminate much of the empty space, though The Guardian says that it is not clear whether these photos were actually published.

The new details, which were not published in the final investigative report of the crowd-size kerfuffle last June, suggest that the photographer, whose name was redacted from the report, was contacted by an unidentified official who asked for “any photographs that showed the inauguration crowd sizes.” He was reportedly asked to edit some more of his photos and submit them again.

“He said he edited the inauguration photographs to make them look more symmetrical by cropping out the sky and cropping out the bottom where the crowd ended,” the investigators said. “He said he did so to show that there had been more of a crowd.”

The photographer reportedly added that he was not specifically asked to crop the photos to show a larger crowd size but that “he selected a number of photos, based on his professional judgment, that concentrated on the area of the National Mall where most of the crowd was standing.”

So it might not have been “the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period,” but it was at least the largest audience that could be cropped into a photo by a government photographer. Several times.