White House defends statement on audience for Trump’s inaugural

In his inaugural address on Friday, Trump said the United States had “subsidised the armies of other countries”, highlighting a common course of friction in the 28-nation alliance.

Trump regularly takes to the service to go around traditional media and its filters.

On the day after his inauguration, at least 500,000 people gathered for a rally outside the US Capitol building in Washington while organisers said an estimated 100,000 descended on central London on Saturday as similar events were staged in major cities across the US and around the world. “Thank you Abbas!” Trump tweeted alongside the panoramic photo.

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And they sort of made it sound like I had a feud with the intelligence community. Spicer said. “Where was the apology to the millions of people who thought that it was racially insensitive?” The best of them, however, understand they will be questioned and challenged, that a certain amount of skepticism comes with the job and is all part of a healthy democracy. Trump said in another tweet.

It was the most inauspicious of beginnings to what was already a deeply fraught relationship between the administration of Donald Trump and the journalists assigned to cover him. Whatever it was, it was.

“This was also the first time that fencing and magnetometers went as far back on the Mall, preventing hundreds of thousands of people from being able to access the Mall as quickly as they had in inaugurations past”, Spicer said. And I turn on the thing, and by mistake I get this network, and it showed an empty field.

“So, we caught them”, he said. I think this can benefit us all by giving a platform to voices that are not necessarily based here in the Beltway.

Survey participants were also asked which photo belonged to which inauguration, and 41 percent of Trump supporters wrongly matched the photo with more people (Obama’s inauguration) to Trump’s inauguration.

“In the Oval Office, there’s a handsome statue of Dr. Martin Luther King”, Trump said. “He helped us, real ally”.

He was notably less heated in tone, but today White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s message was unchanged: The Trump White House feels the press is unfair. “There’s a rush to judgement every time”, he said. I don’t know what it is, and most likelyneither does Mitch McConnell or Paul Ryan or anyone in their caucuses. And it was right there. He praised his nominee to head the agency, Mike Pompeo, and ranted against the “dishonest” media, a favourite target during his presidential campaign. Conway added that Trump and his family are complying with all ethical rules. You weren’t going to run.

White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway compounded the damage by telling NBC’s Meet the Press that Spicer’s statistics were simply “alternative facts”, an Orwellian formulation that seems destined for immortality.

Moments after Spicer’s statement, he was being skewered on social media. “No one lied to you, it just means you interpreted the data in a way that you felt got you to a conclusion”.