He did not mention today’s worldwide women’s marches, and he did not take any questions from the assembled press.
Spicer’s criticism of the media’s fake news reporting resulted in a media meltdown on social media.
Both Trump and Spicer also criticized the media for reporting Friday that Trump had removed Martin Luther King Jr.’s bust from the Oval Office and replaced it with one of Winston Churchill. Trump’s inaugural was sparsely attended compared with President Obama’s inaugural.
A computer monitor left on in the office of press secretary Josh Earnest blared cable news coverage of Trump’s festivities in Washington.
Trump called the concept of global warming was “created by and for the Chinese in order to make USA manufacturing non-competitive” in a tweet sent in 2012 and called it a hoax on several occasions after that-though he later denied ever saying it.
He expressed his positive thoughts about his country saying that he believes in the American people.
“We will also develop a state-of-the-art missile defence system to protect against missile-based attacks from states like Iran and North Korea”, the statement said.
The U.S. National Parks Service Twitter account is part of the department that takes care of the National Mall, which is where the inauguration took place.
“These attempts to lessen the enthusiasm of the inauguration are shameful and wrong”, he added.
The Twitter account for archiving President Obama’s Tweets.
Did you know, for example, that “you’re free to leave the Hotel California whenever you’d like?”
Watch more on the White House moves below. “Not the RNC. The White House”.
In one tweet, Miller apologized directly to Spicer.
He said Trump was warmly received at Central Intelligence Agency headquarters during a visit Saturday. Spicer claimed that “we are going to hold the press accountable as well”. Trump then had press secretary Sean Spicer call an impromptu briefing in which Spicer lashed the press for estimating crowd size.
Trump has also stated he plans to push for legislation that would deem attacks on law enforcement to be “hate crimes”.
British Prime Minister Theresa May will visit the White House next week, either on Thursday or Friday.