"We had a massive field of people, you saw that. Packed," Trump said during remarks at the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Va.

"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 practically nobody standing there," he added.

BREAKING: President Donald Trump accuses media of lying about inauguration crowds, wrongly says crowd reached Washington monument. — The Associated Press (@AP) January 21, 2017

ADVERTISEMENT

Trump speculated that the gloomy conditions on Friday might have dispersed the crowds, but said that the rain did not start until after he was done with his speech.