Donald Trump is obsessed with the size of things, be it his tiny baby hands, the height of a skyscraper, his total net worth, or the number of people who showed up for his inauguration on Friday.
On Saturday, Trump sent out his press secretary, the always combative and perpetually dense Sean Spicer, to whine that the media had severely underestimated the size of the crowd at the inauguration, and to offer a defense for photos which showed vast empty spaces on the National Mall:
“This was the first time in our nation’s history that floor coverings have been used to protect the grass on the [National] Mall. That had the effect of highlighting any areas where people were not standing, while in years past the grass eliminated this visual. 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.”
Magnetometers, by the way, are a fancy, technical term for metal detectors. But was anything Spicer said the least bit true? CNN’s Jim Acosta decided to ask the United States Secret Service:
A USSS spokesperson tells us no magnetometers were used on the National Mall for Trump's inauguration.
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) January 22, 2017
Oh, and about those ground covers which were used for the first time. Also a giant honking lie, as is easily proven:
Pic of crews laying down white ground coverings at Obama inaugural in 2013 courtesy Getty images pic.twitter.com/rBDi8tdekZ
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) January 22, 2017
Then social media got involved and ripped Spicer and Trump new ones for their blatant attempt to prove what is not and never will be true:
@WhiteHouse reasons @realDonaldTrump #CrowdSize looked smaller:
1)drank too much
2)cold water
3)too much blow
4)haven't trimmed down there— Alisha Cunningham (@AlishaAZ) January 22, 2017
FLOOR COVERINGS!
FENCING & MAGNETOMETERS!
NATIONAL PARKS SERVICE COVERUP!
SHOOTER ON THE GRASSY KNOLL!
– Certified sane person, Sean Spicer— Kyle Edwards (@Edwards_Kyle) January 21, 2017
"The magnetometers were operating more slowly bc the huge crowds were distorting the earth's magnetic field" – Spicer
— Matt Steiger (@FoodLunatic) January 21, 2017
"The crowds were kept away by the Magnetometers.
F'in magnets, how do they work?" #SpicerSays pic.twitter.com/UWqu2L4Vhu— Emad Mostaque (@EMostaque) January 22, 2017
Stay tuned. There’s millions more lies just waiting to be told by Trump and his minions. By this time next week, the crowd size will be up to 3 billion and Mike Pence will be claiming he fed them all with a loaf of bread and three sardines.
h/t Raw Story