Putin Helps Trump Bring Up His Numbers

Two months after Donald Trump's inauguration, he's still talking about the number of people who attended his ceremony. The next day, his press secretary, Sean Spicer said:

"Photographs of the inaugural proceedings were intentionally framed in a way, in one particular Tweet, to minimize the enormous support that had gathered on the National Mall," Spicer said on Jan. 21. "That was the largest audience to witness an inauguration, period. Both in person and around the globe."

Why is he still talking about this? And, why are we still talking about it? At the beginning of March 2017, the National Park Service finally released the aerial photographs they took of the National Mall just before Trump's inauguration, comparing them to Barack Obama's first swearing in eight years before. These are the same photos they sent to Trump when he first made his allegations.

It seems Trump has a problem with numbers. At his Nashville "Make America Great Again rally on March 15 he took credit for two months of good job reports: "In the first two job reports since I took the oath of office, we’ve already added nearly half a million new jobs." Yet, only one of those months was during his term. And, the upward trajectory was already in place way before he took office.

In addition, Trump has exaggerated his defense budget, saying it "calls for one of the single largest increases in defense spending history in this country." Both Jimmy Carter's and Ronald Reagan's defense budget was more. Trump's budget is a 9.4% increase over last year's budget. Carter's and Reagan's increases were over 20% from the year before.

Donald Trump likes to boast. Everything's "the greatest, the best, the largest." Perhaps, he needs Vladimir Putin's help with numbers.

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