Trump Mocks Women’s March, Brags About TV Ratings That Were Below Obama’s
On 2nd Day In Office, President Still Obsessing Over Crowd Sizes
President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Sunday to respond to the Women’s March, which drew an estimated 500,000 protesters to Washington, dwarfing his inauguration.
“Watched protests yesterday but was under the impression that we just had an election! Why didn’t these people vote? Celebs hurt cause badly,” Trump wrote. Â
The Women’s March was the largest inauguration-related demonstration in US history, and drew millions to solidarity events around the world. Â
Crowd Scientists Say Women’s March
in DC Had 3 Times More
People Than Trump’s Inauguration. cc: @realDonaldTrump https://t.co/X0NnxhJAPk pic.twitter.com/lscVPsbqZ5— Jim Roberts (@nycjim) January 22, 2017
Trump also boasted about TVÂ ratings for Friday’s inauguration. Â
“Wow, television ratings just out: 31 million people watched the Inauguration, 11 million more than the very good ratings from 4 years ago!” he wrote.Â
What Trump failed to mention is that Obama’s first inauguration in 2009 was watched by nearly 38 million people, according to Reuters. Â
Finally, Trump reflected on his visit to CIA headquarters on Saturday, where he stood on hallowed ground before the agency’s Memorial Wall and delivered what amounted to a vindictive campaign speech.Â
“Had a great meeting at CIA Headquarters yesterday, packed house, paid great respect to Wall, long standing ovations, amazing people. WIN!” he wrote.Â
Although Trump claims the visit was successful, former CIA Director John Brennan disagreed.
“Former CIA Director Brennan is deeply saddened and angered at Donald Trump’s despicable display of self-aggrandizement in front of CIA’s Memorial Wall of Agency heroes,” Brennan’s former deputy chief of staff, Nick Shapiro, said in a statement. “Brennan says that Trump should be ashamed of himself.”
Reactions from Twitter below.
Good to know where his mind is on Day 2 pic.twitter.com/OgQ3LOvIDx
— Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) January 22, 2017
Still litigating crowd size. The man’s insecurity is startling. https://t.co/CGxdOHGGo3
— Jim Roberts (@nycjim) January 22, 2017
Do your job. https://t.co/45fCCu3dvN
— Josh Greenman (@joshgreenman) January 22, 2017
Are the Nielsen ratings now a required part of the President’s Daily Brief?
— Gregg Carlstrom (@glcarlstrom) January 22, 2017
.@realDonaldTrump Instead of attacking women, President has an opportunity to reach out as he promised. He is governing now, not campaigning https://t.co/TKff2TVCgT
— West Wing Reports (@WestWingReport) January 22, 2017
This crowd size stuff — every tiny battle Trump picks over stuff he could have ignored is time and energy he is not spending on his agenda.
— Matt Pearce (@mattdpearce) January 22, 2017
That’s why you lost by 3 million – we did vote. https://t.co/txsC0WwU7v
— Katharine Zaleski 📎 (@kzaleski) January 22, 2017
Not a strategy. This really is what’s most important to him this morning https://t.co/mWdpe4dOhN
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) January 22, 2017
Translation: “If you didn’t vote for me, I couldn’t care less about you, even if I won with minority of voters.†Unity, @seanspicer ? https://t.co/YtM6sh3SZs
— Mike Signorile (@MSignorile) January 22, 2017
When the president is tweeting about TV ratings it’s a sign that he hasn’t made the mental transition from reality TV.
— John Avlon (@JohnAvlon) January 22, 2017

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