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Record inauguration crowds? No lie, just ‘alternative facts,’ says Kellyanne Conway

‘Alternative facts’ is trending on social media

White House spokesman Sean Spicer on Saturday took issue with the coverage of the Trump inauguration, saying the media used misleading images to inaccurately report weak crowd numbers. Spicer, in fact, claimed it was “the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period.”

On Sunday morning, “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd pressed top Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway on what he said was Spicer’s “provable falsehood.”

This response from Conway immediately started trending on Twitter:

Todd fired back: “Wait a minute. Alternative facts? Four of the facts he uttered were just not true. Look, alternative facts are not facts — they’re falsehoods.”

From there, Conway went on to dispute that Spicer’s claim was actually a falsehood.

“I don’t think you can prove those numbers one way or another,” she said. “There’s really no way to quantify crowds.”

Watch the full exchange on NBC:

Twitter, of course, had its fun:

Conway also said Trump won’t release his tax returns, contrary to Trump’s claim that the numbers would be revealed pending the completion of an IRS audit.

See: Trump will not release tax returns, aide Conway says, despite earlier promise to do so

“We litigated this all through the election. People didn’t care,” she said. “Let me make this very clear: Most Americans ... are very focused on what their tax returns will look like while President Trump is in office, not what his look like.”

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