He didn't. The overflow was up and down the streets packed building to building. He said he had requests for around 70,000 … 10,000 were allow inside after the fire marshal gave them a one time exemption.
Just look at the pics. If there weren't over 35 to 40 thousand combined … I'm going blind.
So quit sliding the board and go back to your newsroom and try to figure out another way to minimalize the Awesome reception Potus got.