President Donald Trump’s press secretary, Sean Spicer, held an impromptu first media briefing on Saturday in order to sharply criticize the media over its coverage of the new president’s inauguration. Spicer warned journalists against comparing crowd numbers from Trump’s swearing-in to those of Barack Obama’s inaugurations, or indeed Saturday’s Women’s March in Washington. But his claims of the ‘largest audience ever’ witnessing the inauguration were able to be roundly debunked by an examination of photographs and the available figures, with attendance demonstrably lower than in the past. At the end of his remakrs, Spicer did not take questions