White House: Intention is ‘never to lie’ to media

Now he has more power, over more people, than Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan, and even Meryl Streep.

“They discussed the continued importance of the alliance as the bulwark of our defense and agreed on the need for the alliance to continue to evolve to be able to effectively counter the biggest threats of the day, in particular terrorism and cyber attacks”, a spokesman for May said after the call.

This is how absurd the row over crowd numbers at the inauguration has become. White House staff, including Spicer, have often referenced how early Trump’s tenure is in response to many of follow-up requests to the president’s own statements, which are often tweeted with little known context.

“[The media] is saying it’s a falsehood [that Trump’s inauguration had the largest audience ever]”.

Washington authorities reportedly predicted 800,000 to 900,000 would attend Trump’s inauguration Friday, about half of the 2009 crowd.

“If we’re going to keep referring to the press secretary in those types of terms I think we’re going to have to rethink our relationship here”, she said. Not alternative claims or interpretations or statistical models.

The facts: Similar coverings were used in 2013. But that is old hat, the stuff of conventional politicians everywhere.

Faction Red, the group that sees Trump as a means to an end and which doesn’t care what anyone thinks of the babbler-in-chief so long as they can stay heads down in reassembling the flawless world of October 28, 1929.

But why is Team Trump so determined to argue on behalf of its president over something so seemingly trivial as his crowd count and television ratings? How did we get to this point? They would set up their cameras and let them roll. And it is not just the TV networks who were seduced by Trump’s tall tales.

The new Trump administration has asserted that it would pursue bilateral trade opportunities with allies around the globe as multilateral trade agreements such as the TPP were not in the interest of the US.

He had said that the aerial image of Trump’s inaugural crowd had been taken before he was sworn in when it was actually taken during his inaugural address. Even CNN has realised this. A Republican hasn’t won that state since ’88.

Press Secretary Spicer countered that there’s was no way to measure the attendance at the two inaugurations and that the photo is inaccurate. CNN’s Brian Stelter reported why: “CNN made a conscious choice not to show the @PressSec statement live”. Another way of saying this might be that CNN has chose to do journalism.

Sometime in the next four years, the White House press secretary will need to provide the public with information on crucial matters of life and death: natural disasters, terrorist threats, troop deployments, health epidemics, foreign policy negotiations.