After missing a lot of players at the White House Wednesday -- some of whom chose not to go because of Donald Trump -- the Patriots are on the defensive when it comes to the presentation of their attendance.
A New York Times tweet with pictures from the 2015 and 2017 visits, which presented a much larger group in the 2015 visit. The Patriots then sent out a tweet stressing that the staffers not seen in the 2017 photo were seated elsewhere.
The Patriots then sent out another tweet saying that they didn’t have a large attendance the last time they’d won their second in three years either.
The Times sent a follow-up tweet clarifying the lack of context.