ON SATURDAY, the White House press secretary Sean Spicer began his new job by claiming despite all evidence that 1.5 million people turned out to see Donald Trump’s swearing-in ceremony.
This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period.
The comments were in response to these aerial photographs comparing the crowd at Obama’s inauguration in 2009 to Trump’s:
Yesterday, Trump’s senior advisor Kellyanne Conway defended Spicer, saying he had given “alternative facts”, and unwittingly started a new meme.
Twitter users are now presenting some “alternative facts” of their own…
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Back to bed everyone. Monday is an alternative fact.
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Fair!
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Yes, that’s THE Lance Bass of N*Sync getting in on it there. Oh Lance.
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Who’s to say he didn’t?
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