On his first full day in office, President Donald Trump immediately attacked the media, calling them "among the most dishonest human beings on earth." He was upset with the numerous reports that less people attended and watched his inaugration than Barack Obama's 2009 and 2013 inaugrations. Even though all available data shows hundreds of thousands of people attended the ceremony, Trump believes 1.5 million people actually attended his inauguration. Later in the day, he sent Sean Spicer, the new White House press secretary, to read a prepared statement that was full of proveable falsehoods.

"This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period," Spicer said, though photographic evidence proved otherwise. He tried to blame white floor coverings and the use of magnetometers on the Mall for the sparse-looking crowd, but each of those excuses were proven false. He also provided innacurate D.C, Metro public transit figures for Trump and Obama's inaugrations—exaggerating the former's figures and diminishing the later's.

Afterwards, the press and many Americans hammered Spicer for making false claims about the crowd size. On Sunday morning, Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway went on NBC's Meet the Press and tried to defend Spicer to Chuck Todd—saying the falsehoods were actually "alternative facts." "Don't be so overly dramatic about it, Chuck," Conway told the show's host (video above). "What-- You're saying it's a falsehood. And they're giving Sean Spicer, our press secretary, gave alternative facts to that."