Donald Trump‘s presidency is off to a rocky start. Not only was his poorly attended inauguration on Friday overshadowed by the Women’s March the following day (which drew nearly 3 million people nationwide), but he had his Press Secretary, Sean Spicer, blatantly lie to reporters about the inauguration attendance numbers, claiming Trump had the “largest audience ever to witness an inauguration, period,” despite clear photographic evidence, metro data, and TV ratings numbers to the contrary.
Related: 10 things Kellyanne Conway looked like other than a respectable politico at Trump’s inauguration
If that wasn’t pathetic enough, Kellyanne Conway then went on Meet The Press to defend Spicer’s lies. “Sean Spicer gave ‘alternative facts,’” she insisted. Naturally, Twitter had a field day with this. An #alternativefacts hashtag began trending, with people offering their own ridiculous interpretations to facts they find inconvenient.
Scroll down for some of our favorite #alternativefacts tweets…
I'm a masc 4 masc daddy who spends weekends in weho sippin' vodka sodas with my bros. #ALTERNATIVEFACTS ????
— Kory DeSoto (@Korsoto) January 23, 2017
Icebergs are disappearing because polar bears are eating them #alternativefacts
— David Belz (@dmdb44) January 23, 2017
I stuck an extension cord in my gas tank so now my car is electric. #AlternativeFacts
— Tommy Campbell (@MrTommyCampbell) January 22, 2017
Grabbing by pussy meant he was trying to pet their cats. #alternativefacts
— Mike Signorile (@MSignorile) January 22, 2017
WE WILL WIN GRAMMYS IN EVERY CATEGORY THIS YEAR #alternativefacts
— DNCE (@DNCE) January 23, 2017
'Nobody has more respect for women than me, believe me.'
-Donald Trump
#AlternativeFacts pic.twitter.com/cE13eNwNNT
— Impeach Donald Trump (@Impeach_D_Trump) January 23, 2017
Hillary is president right now. I choose to believe this. #alternativefacts
— Full Frontal (@FullFrontalSamB) January 22, 2017
There was never a Tegan AND a Sara. #fightclub #alternativefacts
— Tegan and Sara (@teganandsara) January 23, 2017
I was born a woman #alternativefacts
— Katya (@katya_zamo) January 22, 2017
officer I am not drunk, I am alternative sober, #alternativefacts
— kyle humble (@khumble14) January 22, 2017
So I'm gonna send my landlord a fiver and say I'm paying "alternative rent." That'll be cool, right? #alternativefacts
— Bill Loehfelm (@BillLoehfelm) January 23, 2017
As a member of the @backstreetboys, I had a love child with @BettyMWhite. #AlternativeFacts
— Lance Bass (@LanceBass) January 22, 2017
Millions cheer as Mike Pence greets adoring crowds along the #Inauguration parade route #AlternativeFacts pic.twitter.com/MCq12kZQxu
— Donald J. Drumpf (@RealDonalDrumpf) January 22, 2017
One million people wear invisibility cloaks to inauguration #alternativefacts
— Laura Kay (@cclaurak) January 23, 2017
And then, of course, there’s this tweet from the all-knowing Merriam-Webster dictionary itself…
?A fact is a piece of information presented as having objective reality. https://t.co/gCKRZZm23c
— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) January 22, 2017
RIGay
My feeling is that a Tweet is not news or fact, it is, at best, an opinion. For the most part, I have always been taught that opinions should be kept to ones self unless asked for.
I suggest, for the betterment of society, we stop treating Twitter as THE source of news and treat is as nothing more than the platform for which it is: A megaphone for bullies.
Tune it out, turn it off. Ignore it. Stop reposting it as news.
NateOcean
Good advice. We’ll turn of twitter, if Donald will.
Paco
Kellyanne Comrade’s “alternative facts” comment should be ridiculed, but it is also quite frightening. Trump’s base is extremely gullible and will eat up all the servings of “alternative facts” this administration will vomit upon them no matter how absurd and untrue they are.
dwes09
You see that here where the log cabin types scream and whine “Fake news! Fake news!” any time an unflattering fact about their idol is posted or reported.
They even still believe he won the popular vote.
GayEGO
Looking at Kellyanne’s picture makes me feel nauseated, I guess it is a contagious feeling I get from looking at or hearing Trump. I really hope our system of government works to prevent Trump from harming our democracy.
He BGB
As Americans we don’t have to take this professional liar as okay, isn’t she funny. That she and Spicer would ruin their own reputations for this manchild escapes me. She doesn’t care. What kind of a person does that? She must throw up a little in her mouth every time she defends Donald
dwes09
“She must throw up a little in her mouth every time she defends Donald”
That would only be true if she was in any way an ethical person. I don’t think she is.
Jack Meoff
I can only assume that the White House staff who have given press conferences claiming that Trump’s inauguration was the most attended and that any reports to the contrary are untrue are doing so because they have been ordered to blatantly lie to the media. I wonder how much longer staff can continue to do this and still hold their heads up or look themselves in the mirror. It will be interesting to see how many resignations they get over the coming months.
1EqualityUSA
I wonder how many were paid to go.
1EqualityUSA
Con-way.