Sean Spicer’s jaw-dropping claim that Donald Trump’s inauguration was not only the largest in American history — but also the biggest ever anywhere on the planet — has unleashed a chortling army of meme-sters with lots of other imagined Spicer whoppers.
Despite what anyone could see with their own eyes looking at an aerial shot of a spotty crowd, the White House press secretary declared that Friday’s event had the “largest audience to ever witness an inauguration — period — both in person and around the globe.”
But sarcastic meme-creators also want you to know that the inauguration was even so much more amazing than that. Were you aware that the Beatles — including John and George — played at the inauguration, and that the president applauded them with his huge hands? But that’s not all. One million invisibility cloaks were handed out to those who attended the event!
But Trump’s inauguration pales by comparison to his other amazing accomplishments, hidden from the public by the dishonest media, according to#SeanSpicerSays (and its twin #SeanSpicerFacts with iteration #SpicerFacts). Trump bench-presses 450 pounds, was the first man to walk on the moon, time-traveled to kill Hitler with his bare hands (did we mention the president’s hands are HUGE?), and on Sunday crossed Niagara Falls on a tightrope, published 100 poems in Spanish and lost 50 pounds (in meme land).
But, seriously, folks, some wags just made fun of Spicer’s problems with numbers and crowd estimates. Though Spicer called the inauguration crowd the biggest ever, Donald Trump himself estimated a more modest 1.5 million people. Crowd scientists analyzing aerial photos of the Washington Mall audience believe that Saturday’s women’s march involved approximately 450,000 people, more than twice the size of the estimated audience of 160,000 for the inauguration, the New York Times reported. The National Park Service believes Barack Obama drew the largest crowd ever for an inauguration in 2009. Though the park service had stopped tallying crowds by then, the audience was estimated in the media at some 1.8 million.
And lots just hammered Spicer on outright lies, which all include his debate- stopping catchphrase “period.”
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