I consider myself petty, or someone takes a small subject and blows it out of proportion, but then again, I am a fifteen-year-old and not the White House press secretary like Sean Spicer. Saturday, Spicer gave the first press conference on Trump’s first day in office – but it lacked any substance and mention of how Trump plans to work the White House and function during his administration.
Spicer also refused to answer any questions from the attending journalists.
Instead, a large portion of the conference was Spicer attacking the media’s supposed fraudulence in how it documented the inauguration numbers of Obama v Trump. Spicer specifically targeted a tweet that showed an overhead view of the two inaugurations in which it seemed that Trump’s inauguration was as sparsely populated as the follicles on his head, whereas Obama’s was so densely packed that it seems like there was no ground room for standing.
Spicer said that it was “biggest audience to witness an inauguration, period.” But the non-tampered images seem to strongly suggest otherwise.
Brian Fallone, a former Hillary for America and Justice Department spokesperson, is among a large group of people that have released aspersions against Spicer’s ineffective and childlike press conference.
Sean Spicer lacks the guts or integrity to refuse orders to go out and lie. He is a failure in this job on his first full day.
— Brian Fallon (@brianefallon) January 21, 2017
Spicer also addressed a tweet from TIME magazine writer Zeke Miller that reported that President Trump had removed the Martin Luther King Jr. bust from the White House. Spicer said it was more than likely out of the reporter’s vantage point and so to report that it had been removed was “irresponsible and reckless.”
Tweeting again: wh aide confirms the MLK bust is still there. I looked for it in the oval 2x & didn't see it. My apologies to my colleagues
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) January 21, 2017
Even though Spicer focused on major controversies from Inauguration Day, it seemed that he was covertly trying to express his anger towards and protest the global Women’s Marches on Saturday by adding statements about people trying to compare the number of marchers in Washington to the number of Inauguration attendees (although he seemingly ignores the myriad of protests outside of Washington and the United States).
