[b]Are there no limits to this morons delusions? [/b]
On Saturday, 21st January 2017 (the day after his inauguration) Trump told assembled members of the CIA that the media had lied and tried to pretend that there was a rift between him and America’s intelligence community. He called journalists “the most dishonest human beings on Earth.” This just ten days after he twitted:
And a month previously he said of the CIA:
“These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction,”
Who’s being dishonest Mr Trump?
It doesn’t end there.
At the same speech to the CIA, he insisted that the media had lied about the turnout at his inauguration. This was repeated and supported by his press secretary Sean Spicer who promised that the press would be held accountable.
Accountable for what?
Trump claimed that the crowd for his swearing-in stretched down the Mall to the Washington Monument. It did not. Trump accused television networks of showing “an empty field” and reporting that he drew just 250,000 people to witness Friday’s ceremony.
“It looked like a million, a million and a half people,” Trump said. “It’s a lie. We caught [the media]. We caught them in a beauty.”
During his 2009 inaugural address, President Obama’s crowd extended that far, and a side-by-side comparison of aerial photos from both inaugurations clearly shows that Obama’s crowd was much larger than Trump’s.
Crowds on the National Mall just before Donald Trump’s inauguration in 2017 (left) and Barack Obama’s in 2009. Photograph: Reuters
Please note that these photos are provided by Reuters. The most highly respected news agency on the planet.
Spicer echoed his boss’s assertion about the inauguration, insisting, from behind the podium at the White House press briefing room, that more than 700,000 people stretched down the Mall to the Washington Monument.
“This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period — both in person and around the globe,” Spicer said, less than a minute after declaring that “no one had numbers” because the National Park Service, which controls the Mall, does not release crowd estimates.
One verifiable number that Spicer offered was that ridership on Washington’s subway system on Friday was higher than for Obama’s inauguration four years ago. Spicer said that 420,000 people rode Metro on Friday, while only 317,000 did so for Obama in 2013. Both of these numbers are inaccurate. Nearly 571,000 people rode on Friday, and 782,000 rode on Inauguration Day four years ago, according to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.
[b]One day in power and the lies just keep rolling in.[/b]
Trump, this is what your inauguration means to decent people.
While you and your press secretary lied on Saturday, millions of them marched in protest all over the world.
Oh WOW! Trump has done all of that after being in office for three days. While fending off attacks and lies by the world's media. Just imagine what he'll accomplish by the end of the year. No doubt, America's street will be paved in gold.
sadly, the guy looks like he's got decades ahead of him. or is that the plastic surgery and sunbeds. either way, the prospect of him being in power for longer than his alloted four years is even more frightening than the fact that he's in power at all. don't wish that on the world
@room101: I fear if he doesn't quit or die in office...
He's 70 and he is about to be stressed in the most extraordinary way. Younger presidents look older than he does now by the time they leaves office so by the time dump leaves he will probably look like a lost extra from the walking dead.
