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Spicer trends worldwide on Twitter after first WH briefing

"Ex-CIA director: Trump should be ashamed of himself"

By Brooke Seipel - 01/21/17 09:55 PM EST


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President Trump's top spokesman was thrust into the spotlight late Saturday after delivering a combative first statement in the White House briefing room, making him a top trending subject on Twitter.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer used his first appearance behind the White House lectern to slam members of the media for their reporting on the size of Trump's inauguration crowds Friday.

"This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period, both in person and around the globe,” Spicer claimed.

Media outlets quickly noted that photos and video showed fewer people assembled on the National Mall for Trump's inauguration Friday than for former President Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009.

Social media users mocked Spicer for the speech, many turning his "Period" emphasis, into a joke:

seriously sick .. http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/315511-spicer-trends-worldwide-on-twitter-after-first-wh-press-briefing


.. hope Spicer can handle hot 'cuz it ain't going to get any easier trying to explain his foolish fellow's words away ..
Australia has a bigger economy than the USA. Period .. lol, the "period" tweets inside are much funnier than that.

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(Crybaby) Trump Throws a Fit Wondering Why the Women’s Marchers Protested After His Election

By Sarah Jones on Sun, Jan 22nd, 2017 at 9:46 am

Instead of being presidential and congratulating the millions of women's marchers for their peaceful protests, Donald Trump wondered why they were protesting since we just had an election.

He seems to expect all dissent to stop now that he's president:

President Trump finally mentioned the people who got more attention than his inaugural swearing in, that is to say the women who marched around the world on Saturday in protest of his attacks on women’s rights, which are basic human rights.

But instead of being presidential and congratulating the millions of marchers for their peaceful protests, Trump wondered why they were protesting since we just had an election, blamed celebrities for Hillary Clinton losing and wondered why the protesters didn’t vote:

Watched protests yesterday but was under the impression that we just had an election! Why didn't these people vote? Celebs hurt cause badly.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 22, 2017

Basically that’s an admission that if they had all voted, Trump wouldn’t be in office. Perhaps this is the nearest Trump will get to self-examination or reality, given that he lost the popular vote.

The answer to Trump’s question about why people were protesting when we just had an election is that they do not like him or his policies or what he stands for. They are concerned about the human rights that his administration is already taking aim at and Trump’s own personal contempt for women. He would have known this if he had bothered to read their mission statement, their signs, or listened to any of them.

What a real leader would have done is comment yesterday, during the protests, that the marchers were engaging in democracy and doing so peacefully and that he would welcome someone from their movement to the White House for a discussion on the issues that concerned them.

But instead, Trump threw a fit yesterday over his crowd numbers, tried to distract from the protesters by going to the CIA and standing in front of a wall of stars representing people who gave their lives serving this country to ramble in a self-aggrandizing diatribe about how smart he was, how horrible the press was to him, how they lied about his crowd size and a bust in his office.

Donald Trump is still bitter that he couldn’t get anyone near a-list status to stump for him or sing at his inaugural celebrations, whereas Hillary Clinton and indeed the marchers yesterday had a full roster of a-list celebrities, including Forbes’ highest-grossing actor of 2016 and many times over “sexiest woman alive” winner Scarlett Johansson. So yeah, that hurts a man who is all about image and stagecraft and pictures himself the ultimate ladies’ man (aka, assaulter/same thing to him apparently).

It would be helpful if someone in the Trump administration had the courage to be honest with Trump enough to instruct him that even after elections, people will disagree with him and protest, and that this is part of our democratic process. His election doesn’t halt dissent.

But no one in the Trump administration seems to be made of the kind of ethics and bravery called for to have a real talk with our new President. He has surrounded himself with sycophants who follow him to his events to cheer and clap for him, because he is so needy that he can’t function without plants laughing at his jokes. Yes, they did this yesterday at the CIA “event”. Then Trump claimed the CIA was with him and had voted for him. Yes, this is disturbing.

Donald Trump needs to get a grip or he is going to throw away his entire presidency and ruin the Republican Party brand for a generation. Well, to be honest, it’s probably too late for the Party or it will be after America gets a good look at the Alt-right, white nationalist, anti-civil and human rights gang.

But with his lowest approval rating for an incoming president, Trump doesn’t have a lot of wiggle room to throw Twitter fits. He has revealed his big weakness, and that is his desperate need to be worshiped. If people want to unsettle Donald Trump, all they need to do is protest.

Update: While writing this, someone seems to have spoken to Trump because he (or more likely someone who works for him) tweeted a more appropriate message:

Peaceful protests are a hallmark of our democracy. Even if I don't always agree, I recognize the rights of people to express their views.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 22, 2017

Still waiting for Trump to invite a leader from the Women’s March to the White House for a discussion.

It looks like we are in for four years of temper tantrums followed by press coverage of said tantrum, followed by a grown up coming in to clean Trump’s spilled milk after they realize that yes, this tantrum is a problem.

In other words, we have a President of Do-Overs. The Trump administration needs to realize that the fit itself is the problem, and this isn’t a job comprised of endless opportunities for do-overs.

http://www.politicususa.com/2017/01/22/trump-throws-fit-wondering-womens-marchers-protest-election.html

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Kellyanne Conway: WH Spokesman Gave ‘Alternative Facts’ on Inauguration Crowd

by Alexandra Jaffe

Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Donald Trump, said the White House press secretary gave "alternative facts" when he inaccurately described the inauguration crowd as "the largest ever" during his first appearance before the press this weekend.

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer gathered the press to deliver a five-minute statement Saturday in which he issued multiple falsehoods, declaring erroneously the number of people who used the D.C. metro on Friday, that there was a change in security measures this year and that "this was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period, both in person and around the globe."

"These attempts to lessen the enthusiasm of the inauguration are shameful and wrong," Spicer said Saturday.

However, crowd size experts told the New York Times they estimated Trump's audience at fewer than 200,000 people, and widely distributed side-by-side photographs showed the stark contrast between the comparatively sparse crowd for Trump's inauguration and the record-setting crowd for Obama's first.

Asked on "Meet the Press" why Spicer used his first appearance before the press to dispute a minimal issue like the inauguration crowd size, and why he used falsehoods to do so, Conway pushed back.

"You're saying it's a falsehood and Sean Spicer, our press secretary, gave alternative facts to that," she told NBC's Chuck Todd.

She then went on to echo Spicer's claim on Saturday that it wasn't possible to count the crowd, despite Trump's team's accompanying insistence that it was the "largest audience."

"I don't think you can prove those numbers one way or another. There's no way to quantify crowd numbers," Conway said.

Conway also suggested that Todd's insistence on asking why Spicer delivered a demonstrably false statement could affect the White House's treatment of the media.

"If we're going to keep referring to the press secretary in those types of terms I think we're going to have to rethink our relationship here," she said.


http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/wh-spokesman-gave-alternative-facts-inauguration-crowd-n710466

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A Plea to Trump Fans: This Man is Dangerous
The Resistance with Keith Olbermann | GQ

Published on Jan 23, 2017 by GQ [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsEukrAd64fqA7FjwkmZ_Dw / http://www.youtube.com/user/GQVideos , http://www.youtube.com/user/GQVideos/videos , http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0hKMB1-xkc-XWNf9VL-LxVYysdHpjyMF ]

President Donald Trump is not just lying to you and me—now he’s lying to himself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qdRyMgaR2g [with comments]

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Watch Trump’s cabinet pick humiliate him by admitting his inaugural crowd was tiny (VIDEO)

Tom Cahill | January 24, 2017

Mick Mulvaney, whom Trump selected to head his Office of Management and Budget, was forced to humiliate his new boss on live TV.

During his confirmation hearings before the Senate Budget Committee, Rep. Mulvaney (R-South Carolina) admitted that President Trump’s inaugural crowd was smaller than President Obama’s. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) began the exchange with Mulvaney by referencing a past description of the South Carolina Congressman by Senator Tim Cotton (R-Arkansas) as a “bold truth-teller.”

To test Mulvaney’s ability to tell the truth, Sen, Merkley had an aide show two photos of the U.S. Capitol side-by-side. One photo was from January 20, 2009, when President Barack Obama was being sworn in for his first inauguration. The second photo was of President Trump’s inauguration, taken on January 20, 2017, at the same angle. Mulvaney smiled as Merkley asked him which crowd was bigger, first acknowledging that the question was not in direct relation to the Office of Management and Budget.

After the aide showed the two photos, Senator Tim Kaine (D-Virginia), who is seen sitting on Sen. Merkley’s right, struggles to maintain his composure during the savage exchange, stifling a smile while sipping on his water.

WATCH: (This requires caps) SENATOR JEFF MERKLEY JUST HELD UP PHOTOS OF INAUGURAL CROWDS + MADE A TRUMP APPOINTEE ADMIT TRUMP'S WAS SMALLER pic.twitter.com/baOZldIiBn
( https://twitter.com/yashar/status/823959492320788480/video/1 )

— Yashar (@yashar) January 24, 2017

SENATOR JEFF MERKLEY: “Which crowd is larger? The 2009 crowd, or the 2017 crowd?”

REPRESENTATIVE MICK MULVANEY: “Senator, if you’ll allow me to give the disclaimer that I’m not really sure how this ties to OMB, I’ll be happy to answer your question, which was, from that picture, it does appear that the crowd on the left hand side (2009) is bigger than the crowd on the right-hand side (2017).”

MERKLEY: “Thank you. The president disagreed about this in his news report. He said, ‘It’s a lie, we caught them. We caught them in a beauty,’ referring to the press reporting. He says, ‘It looked like a million, a million and a half people.'”

In a recent report from the Washington Post, in which reporters talked to several unnamed “senior officials” within the White House, President Trump was apparently furious at the media coverage that showed President Obama’s inauguration crowd was bigger than Trump’s.

The report also revealed that the origin of White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s first presser in the White House briefing room — in which he shouted at the White House Press Corps for accurately reporting inauguration attendance numbers — came from Trump himself.

As of this writing, Trump has yet to admit that his crowd was not, as Sean Spicer put it, “[T]he largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period, both in person and around the globe.”

http://usuncut.com/politics/trumps-cabinet-pick-humiliated/