Before adding “We litigated this all through the election. Celebs hurt cause badly”.
On the ground in Washington, crowds on Friday were noticeably smaller than those of some previous inaugurations.
He later made a freaky U-turn, claiming he respected people’s right to protest and express their point of view.
Millions of people across the U.S. and throughout the world participated in protests against America’s 45th President Donald Trump. He said the speech was all unifying the country, adding that the “dishonesty in the media” is making that more hard.
Trump himself claimed that the crowds stretched to the Washington Monument, complaining in a speech at the Central Intelligence Agency on Saturday that the media was showing photos of empty spaces on the mall and that “it looked like a million, a million and a half people”. “And they said, Donald Trump did not draw well”.
The photograph he showed was a non-aerial shot, taken from behind the podium, looking out at the crowds.
In fact, the rain continued and the day remained overcast and cloudy.
“We are going to watch what the president does, we’re going to watch the president says”, Stephanopoulos told her.
“Now, that’s not bad”. For one, Spicer declared that Metro ridership was higher on Friday than during Obama’s 2013 inauguration. And it came as hundreds of thousands of demonstrators filled the streets in Washington and many cities both in America and overseas, all aimed at showing Trump that they will not be silent during his time in office.
A combination of photos taken at the National Mall shows the crowds attending the inauguration ceremonies to swear in President Trump, left and former President Obama, right.
Informal tallies of today’s global woman’s march place the turnout at more than 2.5 million.
During today’s discussion on Meet The Press, Todd grilled Conway about why Press Secretary Sean Spicer criticized the press about “misrepresenting” the size of President Trump’s inauguration crowds.