Trump on throngs of Sunday protesters: ‘Why didn’t these people vote?’

In an unusual and fiery statement on Saturday night (US local time), White House spokesman Sean Spicer lashed out about tweeted photographs that showed large, empty spaces on the National Mall during the ceremony on Friday.

U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier and another woman wear their pink protest hats, symbols of the anti-Trump women’s march, as people gather prior to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, January 20, 2017. So, we caught them, and we caught them in a beauty. Because I was interested in them and not in the crowd size, none of it is a definitive look at how the crowd thinned out behind us. Trump said he believed women who have abortions should face some kind of punishment, verbally attacked several female journalists, and called Clinton a “nasty woman” during a presidential debate. “We do not know what the Government is going to be like”. The White House’s social media pages as well as many cabinet members made heartfelt tributes to the outgoing First Family.

Before the ceremony, Trump walked onto the dais wearing a red tie. In fact, he used the word nine times in his opening paragraphs, striking a note of inclusion that had been absent from his Republican National Convention acceptance speech, where an authoritarian “I” seemed the predominant pronoun. “I just wanted my voice to be heard”, demonstrator Sharae Cloak told the Post.

“You saw them. Packed”, he said of the crowd. “These attempts to lessen the enthusiasm of the inauguration are shameful and wrong”. He promised to “build new roads and highways and bridges and airports and tunnels and railways all across our wonderful nation”, but cast all those he will need to rely on to support those initiatives, the leaders of both political parties, as “all talk and no action, constantly complaining but never doing anything about it”. “Every time I think it’s amusing, I look back at what he’s inciting and think, they gotta kick him off”.

“American carnage was a reference to closed factories, not dead people”, Black told CTV’s Power Play.

And in a highly unusual move, he left the briefing without taking questions.

Corinne Goldsmith, who was originally from NY and has lived in Washington for more than 20 years, said Trump is not “my president”.

The planned centrepiece of the protests, a Women’s March on Washington, appeared to draw larger crowds than turned out a day earlier to witness Trump’s inauguration.

“We are here to say that militarized policing has been going on in the USA and will continue under Trump’s presidency”, she said”.

And instead of bringing the American message of inclusiveness and diversity to the world, as Obama spoke of, Trump said every decision he takes will be to benefit Americans and only Americans.

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.