The floor coverings Spicer mentioned, that was also a lie.
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Almost 500,000 people marched in the streets of Washington and millions more across the country as part of the Women’s March Saturday, to express solidarity with women’s rights and signal opposition to President Donald Trump.
Among the revelations at Sean Spicer’s first official White House briefing as press secretary was the newly minted administration’s plans to add a quartet of so-called “Skype Seats” to the room beginning this this week.
Aides in the White House press office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the new policy. “There’s no harm done if you’re press secretary saying “I got a statistic wrong” and walk it back”, Fleischer said in an interview on “CBS This Morning” on Monday. While speaking at the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters yesterday, Trump said that when he was speaking and looking out at the crowd: “It looked like a million, a million and a half people”.
However, police and cities use statistical methods to estimate crowd sizes to protect public safety during large events. Acosta then asked again why Trump would bring up the crowd size at his inauguration during that meeting.
Spicer would not say whether he was ordered by Trump or other staffers to make Saturday’s statement, but explained some of the thinking that went into it.
“That wasn’t like we made them up from thin air”, he said. Trump is so obsessed with being the “best” that this morning he tweeted that his TV ratings for the inaugural were higher than Obama’s in 2013.
So later Saturday Trump’s press secretary Sean Spicer held his very first press briefing since Trump was sworn in. As it turned out, the reporter didn’t see the bust because people were standing in front of it, and he later apologized.
In what will surely become a familiar refrain, mainstream news outlets fired back by openly calling the statements falsehoods in their headlines and reporting – a level of overt antagonism nearly never seen in modern US history, even during the frostiest periods of White House-press relations.
“I’m not” saying that, Spicer said.
Indeed. What’s next? The Trump White House just declared war on reality – and on the press.
“It isn’t really about crowd size”, Priebus said.
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Spicer has caught flack for the way he dresses in the media, too. “I think sometimes we can disagree with the facts”. Trump’s refusal to do so has been widely criticized by critics who say his many domestic and foreign financial ties need to be scrutinized more carefully.
