WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump began his first full work day at the White House on Monday by taking Washington out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a trade agreement among twelve of the Pacific Rim countries. Trump's executive action on the work front - a withdrawal from America's global engagement -- came after a fraught, confrontational weekend with the liberal media that virtually anointed him ''Liar-in-Chief'' when he and his aides falsified facts to present his inauguration as bigger than it was.
Brewing tensions between the press corps and the Trump team exploded on Sunday after the new President and his aides challenged media accounts about the size of his inauguration rally. Trump spokesman Sean Spicer followed up his boss's denigration of the press at the CIA headquarters on Saturday by presenting at his very first briefing what was quickly shown to be false information seeking to inflate the inauguration crowd size, after accusing the media of underestimating it and admonishing it.
The data that Spicer presented was so patently bogus that it collapsed within minutes under fact-checking scrutiny, after which his associate Kellyanne Conway told the media that he was only presenting ''alternative facts.'' That euphemism for lies earned Conway an on-air rebuke (''Alternative facts are not facts. They're falsehoods,'' one TV anchor told her bluntly) and massive social media trolling (#alternativefacts became a Twitter trend).
I knew the leftist American mainstream media hated Trump. But TOI? Naaah, things are spicing up. Those are some pretty strong abusive words and like it or not, "Secular" media, Trump is the most powe... Read More
The petty scrap with the media over crowd size, first initiated by Trump himself, overshadowed the chaotic debut of a Trump administration that began with only two confirmed cabinet officials and a couple of dozen White House appointees (including Trump's son-in-law) sworn in over the weekend.
Source:-Timesofindia
Brewing tensions between the press corps and the Trump team exploded on Sunday after the new President and his aides challenged media accounts about the size of his inauguration rally. Trump spokesman Sean Spicer followed up his boss's denigration of the press at the CIA headquarters on Saturday by presenting at his very first briefing what was quickly shown to be false information seeking to inflate the inauguration crowd size, after accusing the media of underestimating it and admonishing it.
The data that Spicer presented was so patently bogus that it collapsed within minutes under fact-checking scrutiny, after which his associate Kellyanne Conway told the media that he was only presenting ''alternative facts.'' That euphemism for lies earned Conway an on-air rebuke (''Alternative facts are not facts. They're falsehoods,'' one TV anchor told her bluntly) and massive social media trolling (#alternativefacts became a Twitter trend).
I knew the leftist American mainstream media hated Trump. But TOI? Naaah, things are spicing up. Those are some pretty strong abusive words and like it or not, "Secular" media, Trump is the most powe... Read More
The petty scrap with the media over crowd size, first initiated by Trump himself, overshadowed the chaotic debut of a Trump administration that began with only two confirmed cabinet officials and a couple of dozen White House appointees (including Trump's son-in-law) sworn in over the weekend.
Source:-Timesofindia
