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Defending White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, Kellyanne Conway, a senior White House aide, told NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday Spicer had merely been offering “alternative facts A day
after the White House vowed to fight the news media ‘tooth and nail’ over what it sees as unfair attacks, a top adviser said that the Trump administration had "alternative facts"
to counter low inauguration crowd estimates. On his first full day as president, Trump said he had a "running war" with the media and accused journalists of underestimating the
number of people who turned out Friday for his swearing-in. This was demonstrated by President Trump’s press secretary Sean Spicer, who used his first White House briefing to shout at
journalists about what he incorrectly termed “deliberately false reporting” on Trump’s inauguration, declaring: “We’re going to hold the press accountable.” Following this, Reuters' Jim
Bourg posted on Facebook about the debates regarding the number of people who attended the inauguration. "I am seeing a lot of inaccurate talk and allegations online about the crowd
photos from Friday's Trump inauguration that are simply not borne out by the FACTS. Now I see my own friends reposting this disinformation on Facebook. Only one news organisation had a
still photographer atop the Washington monument for the inauguration and I assigned him to be there. This photo by Reuters News Pictures staff photographer Lucas Jackson was taken at
12:01:18 p.m. on Friday and not much earlier as many people are trying to claim," he wrote. Defending Spicer, Kellyanne Conway, a senior White House aide, told NBC’s Meet the Press on
Sunday Spicer had merely been offering “alternative facts”, a phrase that was received with widespread astonishment. People even took to social media to make jokes about Alternative Facts.
Here are some of the best tweets > BREAKING: Michelle's gift exposed! #alternativefact#alternativefacts > #Inauguration pic.twitter.com/bTyziZQNQQ > — George D. (@xdelmar59)
January 23, 2017 > Trump: "37% of Americans approve of me. Round that up to 40, add 10, > round again to 100 & everyone loves me, b/c math!"#AlternativeFacts > — Craig
Rozniecki (@CraigRozniecki) January 23, 2017 > Ministry of Alternative Truth @PressSec to hold press un-briefing > today at 1.30pm #Trump #alternativefacts pic.twitter.com/GS8Liz4RLz
> — Trumpton (@Trump_ton) January 23, 2017 > #alternativefacts - Golden pic.twitter.com/vAjQ18lN4g > — Andrew Stroehlein (@astroehlein) January 23, 2017 > Fox's 2015 version
of FANTASTIC FOUR won 14 Oscars including "Best > Picture Ever" #AlternativeFacts > — John Campea (@johncampea) January 23, 2017