He even reportedly ordered his press secretary Sean Spicer to hold a media briefing on Saturday to declare his audiences was not only bigger than Mr Obama’s but the largest ever, The Washington Post reports.
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That week, pro-Trump CNN pundit Scottie Nell Hughes offered this on Diane Rehm’s radio show: “One thing that’s been interesting this campaign season to watch is that people that say facts are facts – they’re not really facts”.
I hope that President Trump does well for our country’s sake, as our President and leader we should hope that his success is for the betterment of our nation.
In addition, the White House is making no commitment on the contentious issue of moving the USA embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
The private studio’s web site features photographs from multiple political events, as well as global real estate photographs.
Monday’s briefing followed an incident on Saturday in which Spicer went on an angry tirade from behind the White House podium, issuing several false statements about the size of the audience at President Donald Trump’s swearing-in ceremony.
Time’s Zeke Miller, who made the initial report, later corrected it and apologized for his mistake.
Trump’s 2017 inauguration ranks fifth in terms of television viewership: More people tuned in for the second inauguration of Richard Nixon, the inauguration of Jimmy Carter, the first inauguration of Ronald Reagan, and the first inauguration of Barack Obama.
Trump’s 100th day in office is on Monday, May 1. I’m going to come out here and tell you the facts as I know them.
“We want to have a healthy and open dialogue with the press corps. and the American people”, he followed.
On Inauguration Day, the White House website was scrubbed clean of Obama’s policies and replaced with Trump’s. The reporting on the size of the crowd had been accurate.
His remarks were tailored to digital and TV viewers, however. It’s not known for instance how many people streamed the inauguration through a variety of sources on many different platforms.
Trump, after first trashing the media, told the audience of Central Intelligence Agency employees that, “it looked like a million, million and a half people” were standing in the crowd cheering for him.
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Mr Spicer made two unprovable statements in his briefing: that photographs of the audience at Mr Trump’s inauguration were intentionally framed to minimise the appearance of support, and that the new president had drawn the largest audience ever to witness an inauguration.
