To hear him tell it, he had the largest inauguration audience.

Ever.

And he would’ve won the popular vote if not for voter fraud — a claim he’s peddling without evidence.

It makes you wonder why the president of the United States is so obsessed with popularity. And size.

Wait, wasn’t it a woman who first said size doesn’t matter?

Now try this on for size: Women’s March on Jan. 21 may have been the largest demonstration in this country’s history. And the tens of thousands who marched in Oakland were part of maybe the largest protest in the city’s history. And it was peaceful, powerful and positive.

If you’re looking for girl power to combat the clownish takeover of the presidency, Oakland is ground zero. Just take a look at who’s running the show in the city that recently hired Anne Kirkpatrick, the first woman to lead the Oakland Police Department.

Women are 51 percent of the population, but, according to a 2014 report published by the International City/County Management Association, only 14.4 percent of chief administrative positions were held by women.

In Oakland, women elected to office include Mayor Libby Schaaf, City Attorney Barbara Parker, City Auditor Brenda Roberts and half of the City Council — Annie Campbell-Washington, Lynette Gibson McElhaney, Desley Brooks and Rebecca Kaplan.

Teresa Deloach Reed is the Oakland fire chief, and the city administrator is Sabrina Landreth. Her two assistant city administrators are Christine Daniel and Claudia Cappio, and the deputy city administrator is Stephanie Hom.

In fact, according to Karen Boyd, the city’s communications director, 15 of 22 department heads in Oakland are women. The list includes Brooke Levin, director of public works; Michele Byrd, director of housing and community development; Sara Bedford, director of human services; and Venus Johnson, director of public safety.

When the city created the Department of Race and Equity to address social equity, it hired Darlene Flynn.

And when Oakland was reeling in the days after the Dec. 2 Ghost Ship fire that killed 36 people, it was Officer Johnna Watson, the city’s police spokeswoman, who provided a stalwart voice while providing details to the media and the public.

Nancy O’Malley is Alameda County’s district attorney. In Washington, California’s two U.S. senators are Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris. Harris won the seat vacated by Barbara Boxer’s retirement. And Barbara Lee is our representative in Congress.

What’s more, female-owned businesses like Oaklandish, Show & Tell, Urban Stitch and Darling’s Elixirs are propelling downtown Oakland’s cultural renaissance.

Remember that while the most powerful man in the world is having fits over sizes, just more of the same distracting drivel coming out of his whatever, there are dozens of women in our backyard who are in the trenches trying to make life smoother for people.

We need them, because the road into the future is veering toward a cliff.

On Friday, a week into his term, the president signed an executive order that barred Syrian refugees from entering the country, suspended entry for all refugees for 120 days and flat-out blocked entry for citizens from seven Muslim countries. Green-card holders were detained at airports, including San Francisco’s, where hundreds turned up to protest. The travel ban was challenged in courts.

I’d like to welcome you to the New Great America, the land of the confined and the home of the afraid.

Here in Oakland, we have our own problems. We have our own decrepit roads that need to be paved, but at least we know diversity is embraced and encouraged. So let me say thank you to the city for the daily reminder that a person should be measured by what they do and not by what they say.

Because that’s the size that matters most.

San Francisco Chronicle columnist Otis R. Taylor Jr. appears Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Email: otaylor@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @otisrtaylorjr