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“Alternate Facts”

The Desolation of Drumpf believes that, like Humpty Dumpty, a word “means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.”

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports that President Donald Trump’s inauguration actually didn’t have the biggest audience ever, and produces evidence to back their assertion.

The British Broadcasting Corporation notes Trump claims media ‘dishonest’ over crowd photos, and produces its own photos taken from the Washington Monument in both Obama’s 2009 inauguration and Trump’s 2017 inauguration, that obviously show that the attendance at Obama’s first inauguration was two or three times larger than Trump’s.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reports that:

There were strong signs across the U.S. that the number of people who attended the Women’s March on Washington on Saturday topped those who gathered on Friday to watch U.S. President Donald Trump’s inauguration.

But as over a million people around the world protested in solidarity with events in Washington, both the president and his press secretary took aim Saturday at the media for “attempts to lessen the enthusiasm of the inauguration” and claimed a bigger turnout than the available data suggests.

Take note of “available data suggests”. The ‘available data” are hotel vacancies, transit ridership, photographs of the crowd, empty seats. The data say that the Women’s March was bigger than the Inauguration.

This is why Sean Spicer, the new press secretary introduced “Alternate Facts” [AKA LIES!] to justify his boss’s claims, and refused to take questions.

56 comments

1 Bryan { 02.02.17 at 6:20 pm }

The woman infiltrating is just the standard incompetence of arrogant people. The people who should have stop her were afraid of getting into trouble for accosting someone’s wife.

Trump and the State Department both agreed to the deal earlier and now Trump wants out because it makes him look bad with MAGAts/Drumpfkins. If he keeps screwing around with President of Mexico, Mexico may stop allowing things to go North and screw up the assembly lines in Detroit. If they stop for a few days, the just in time inventory system will collapse. Badtux covered these problems at his site.

A minority of American voters have done the equivalent of the British voters making Basil Fawlty Prime Minister