And the tone is set.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/21/...se-briefing-inauguration-crowd-size.html?_r=0
Taking such a petty swipe at the accurate reporting of yesterday's events is highly indicative. It could have been so easy for the administration to explain away the numbers. The weather was bad. DC is not an overly conservative place. The cost of getting there for people from outside. How small a matter to just say yes we know numbers are down, but we will show the entire country we are here to govern for you all.
Instead Donald, through Spicer, doubles down on absurd falsehoods, and again demonises the media for "lying" about the numbers. A blatantly disprovable argument. Which is actually pretty insignificant in itself.
But in the bigger picture, this methodology will come in handy for Trump later. When things don't turn out the way he said they would, when the jobs don't return, when IS doesn't die (although in this case I hope he's right), when the economy falters, he can just attack the media for disputing his claims. It'll be their fault for not letting him unify the country, and for not just telling like HE sees it.
That level of deceit is pathological.
