He Can't Handle The Truth: Keep Pushing The Facts On President _____

Remember the inauguration and how Hair Furor got his panties in a bunch because the audience was minuscule? And remember when White House press secretary, and paid liar, Sean Spicer, lied about the crowd sizes? And then, best of all remember when serial lunatic Kellyanne Conway went on TV and actually said there were "alternative facts" to the story?

Well, that story, and the one about how Donald _____ lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by almost three million votes—and had another 8 million people vote against him and choose another candidate—are keeping the Tiny Fisted Tyrant awake at night.

So let’s keep it up ... here, courtesy of NPR, are some ... some ... of the White House's assertions here that are exaggerated or just plain lies:

THE ALTERNATIVE FACTS:

President _____ told members of Congress last week—just three days after his tiny inauguration—that there were 3 million illegal votes cast in the election; he said it again to ABC News's David Muir:

"You have people that are registered who are dead, who are illegals, who are in two states. You have people registered in two states. They're registered in a New York and a New Jersey. They vote twice. There are millions of votes, in my opinion."

THE FACTS:

Not true, no matter how many times _____ says it, and to whom he says it. In fact, his administration has never provided any evidence to support their lie, and even the studies they have cited do not substantiate the “alternative facts”; in fact, even the authors of those studies have said that the studies are being misused by _____.

ALTERNATIVE FACTS:

_____ pointed to a Pew study as evidence, but Muir pushed back, saying it showed "no evidence of voter fraud." _____ said the author was "groveling again. You know, I always talk about the reporters that grovel when they wanna write something that you wanna hear but not necessarily millions of people wanna hear or have to hear."

THE FACTS:

That 2012 Pew report does show that 2.8 million people are registered to vote in more than one state—in fact, ______’s beloved daughter was registered in two states, as was his puppet master, Steve Bannon—but that is not evidence of fraud unless people vote in both states. And the author is not "groveling" when he simply pushes back because his report is taken wildly out of context and twisted into falsehoods.

ALTERNATIVE FACTS:

_____ on his victory:

"No, no, you have to understand, I had a tremendous victory, one of the great victories ever. In terms of counties, I think the most ever or just about the most ever. When you look at a map it's all red."

THE FACTS: 

Trump did have an overwhelming victory, countywise, but he still lost the popular vote; and his Electoral College victory ranked 46th out of 58 presidential elections which can hardly be called “tremendous.

Sean Spicer, lying, again, to the press on January 24:

"He won overwhelmingly with 306 electoral votes, the most since any Republican since Reagan. He's very comfortable with the depth and breadth of the support that he got from the American people and the 33 states that voted for him, the nine of 13 battleground states, the 2,600 counties. He's very, very pleased with that."

THE FACTS: 

Actually, _____ ended up with just 304 Electoral votes because two electors in Texas ... in Texas ... defected. In addition, his victory wasn't the largest GOP win since Reagan—George H.W. Bush won 426 electoral votes in 1988.

ALTERNATIVE FACTS:

_____, on reaction to his CIA speech

"I got a standing ovation. In fact, they said it was the biggest standing ovation since Peyton Manning had won the Super Bowl and they said it was equal. I got a standing ovation. It lasted for a long period of time. What you do is take — take out your tape — you probably ran it live. I know when I do good speeches. I know when I do bad speeches. That speech was a total home run. They loved it." 

THE FACTS:

_____ never told the CIA officers to sit at the beginning of his speech, and it's standard protocol that, without a directive from the president, they don’t sit down; it wasn’t a standing ovation, they had been standing the whole time because Hair Furor forgot to say, “Please be seated.”

PS there were over 70,000 people at the Super Bowl _____ mentioned and he believes his crowd of about five hundred gave a longer ovation? Delusional much? In addition, _____ brought along 400 of his own staffers to hear him speak and to applaud at every turn.

ALTERNATIVE FACTS;

_____ on his inauguration crowd size

"I had the largest audience. I did. I had the largest audience. If you add the television, you add all the sources, the largest audience in the history of inaugurations. I did. They try and demean it so much. And when you look at pictures — I would love to show you a picture, when I was in that speech, I looked at, it was a sea of people and they want to demean it. I don't even know when that picture was taken by the way, to be honest with you. But it wasn't taken from where I was. They take a picture from the back, from the Washington Monument, a backward picture. They are so demeaning and they are so dishonest."

THE FACTS: 

Side-by-side photos taken during the same time frame of _____'s inauguration and President Obama's clearly show a larger crowd eight years ago. And as for the "backward" picture — the Obama photo was taken from the exact same angle.

According to Nielsen, 30.6 million people watched _____'s inauguration, but 38 million watched President Obama's first inauguration in 2009. It's tougher to determine how many people streamed the inauguration, but CNN reported they actually had a larger streaming audience for Obama's inauguration than _____'s.

ALTERNATIVE FACTS:

_____ on Syrian refugees

"Do you know if you were a Christian in Syria it was impossible, at least very tough to get into the United States? If you were a Muslim you could come in, but if you were a Christian, it was almost impossible and the reason that was so unfair, everybody was persecuted in all fairness, but they were chopping off the heads of everybody but more so the Christians. And I thought it was very, very unfair."

THE FACTS:

A Pew Research study shows that roughly the same number of Muslim refugees and Christian refugees were admitted to the U.S. in 2016. And while Christian refugees from Syria were admitted in far less numbers than Muslim refugees, they make up only about 5% of the population. And, when looking at Iraqi refugees, Christians made up about 15% of those admitted to the U.S. even though they make up less than 1% of the Iraqi population.

ALTERNATIVE FACTS:

______’s crime claims

"Chicago is like a war zone....when President Obama was there two weeks ago making a speech, very nice speech. Two people were shot and killed during his speech. You can't have that."

THE FACTS: 

As the Chicago Tribune reports, police records show that, "Not only did no homicides take place in Chicago during Obama's address of about an hour Jan. 10, but the official Police Department records and the Tribune's crime database show that no shootings at all occurred over that time frame."

_____, at a GOP House retreat in Philadelphia on January 26:

"Here in Philadelphia, the murder rate has been steady — I mean just terribly increasing." 

THE FACTS: 

There were just 277 homicides in Philadelphia in 2016, down from 280 the year before; and that number is steadily down from 2007, when there were 391 murders. To be fair, there have been 27 murders so far in 2017—10 more than in 2016 at this time—but, as the Washington Post notes, "that is too small a sample size to say violence is 'terribly increasing.'"

ALTERNATIVE FACTS:

Sean Spicer, on American-made products and American jobs

"And the President's top priority is to retain and attract American jobs, which have already seen happening through his actions on Carrier, Sprint, General Motors and so many more." 

THE FACTS: 

When _____ touted that he had saved 1,000 Carrier jobs from going to Mexico, it was hailed as evidence that his aggressive approach to keeping manufacturing jobs would work. In fact, the Carrier deal saved less than half of the jobs there, and some of those Carrier jobs will eventually be lost to automation. Ultimately, about 1,000 jobs will still move to Mexico.

After _____ called out GM for making their Chevy Cruze in Mexico, the company pointed out that the main model sold in the U.S. is manufactured in Ohio. And, when GM announced they would move a production for parts from Mexico to Michigan, adding 450 jobs, and also move IT jobs back to the United States. _____ claimed credit, but GM said the move had been planned for a long time.

ALTERNATIVE FACTS:

Sean Spicer, lying at another press briefing:

"...buy America and hire America is at the core of the president's plan to create an economy that works for everyone..." 

THE FACTS: 

Many of Trump's own signature pieces sold at his clubs and clothing from his daughter Ivanka's clothing line are made overseas.

Sean Spicer, on the federal workforce

"This memorandum counters through dramatic expansion of the federal workforce in recent years."

THE FACTS: 

There were nearly 2.8 million federal workers when Obama took office and when he left the number was slightly over 2.8 million; hardly a “dramatic expansion.” The only dramatic increase happened in April 2010, when the government hired hundreds of thousands of temporary census workers, which happens every 10 years.

So, remember y’all, there are facts and there are alternative facts, and if you keep reminding ______ and his team that they are liars and that you know it, and that you will call them out for being liars at every turn, you’ll keep them on the ropes.

And that will make it so much easier come Impeachment Season.

Carry on, Resistors.

The Funny Papers

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America Under Siege: _____ Puts His Bank Account Ahead Of The Environment and Native Americans

So, the #AlternativePresident, Donald _____, signed another two executive orders yesterday to advance construction of the controversial Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines no matter the cost to the environment or the lands, and water, of Native Americans.

Oh, and please remember _____ is a partner in the Dakota Access Pipeline, so, yeah, no conflict of interest there.

The Dakota Access [DAPL] project, a $3.8-billion pipeline designed to move crude oil from the Bakken oil patch along a 1,172-mile-long pipeline spanning four states through the Midwest and into the Gulf Coast.

Last December, construction was halted after the US Army Corps of Engineers denied a permit for the pipeline to cross under a Missouri River reservoir so it could explore alternate routes. Yes, the oil will move under rivers and reservoirs, threatening the water sources for millions of people—not to mention the scared burial grounds of Native Americans—but who cares about water ... water is nothing ... just ask the people of Flint.

The Keystone XL oil pipeline, which would run from Canada to U.S. refineries in the Gulf Coast, was rejected in November 2015 by former President Barack Obama, following a seven-year campaign by environmentalists against it, but _____, who says he’s “bigly” for the environment and spewed an “alternative fact” that he’s received awards “for the environment” wants the oil and the cash from the pipelines, in his wallet.

He campaigned on a promise to ease, or eliminate altogether, regulations, including ones pertaining to the environment, to help spur economic growth because money is more important than clean air and clean water ... at least to Donald _____. I mean, who needs a clean environment when millionaires can get rich off oil profits?

Okay, so here’s the deal ... this man is a menace. He threatens the way of life of every American, including those of you foolish enough to vote for him because you thought he was the Second Coming.

So, I’d suggest those of you who want him out, sooner, rather than later, get busy with your representatives in Congress and urge them to stop this maniac, or vote them out of office and put in place people who will stand up for the American people, and not the millionaires, and impeach this son of a bitch before he destroys every single shred of decency left in this country.

He’s erased The Gays.

He won’t talk Civil Rights.

He’s working to destroy the environment.

He’s gonna build that wall, only now he’s gonna divert federal funds from border security tom pay for it; so, yeah, that whole “We’ll build a wall and Mexico will pay for it” business was another lie.

And now he’s destroying American lands, and the lands of Native Americans for his own personal gain.

Resist.

America Under Siege: #FakePresident Brought His Own Audience To Clap For Him

The Fake President, or the #AlternativePresident, strikes again, as CBS News has confirmed reports that President Donald _____ brought an audience with him to hear his speech before the CIA over the weekend.

That may explain the ALLEGED standing ovation and the thunderous applause because many in the audience were on the _____ payroll. And now, an official with the CIA says the “visit” has left a wake of “unease,” “made relations with the intelligence community worse,” and was “uncomfortable.”

CBS says CIA “authorities are also pushing back against the perception that the CIA workforce was cheering for the president. They say the first three rows in front of the president were largely made up of supporters of Mr. _____’s campaign.”

In fact, the truth, the fact, is that the crowd hearing _____ speak was filled out with about forty guests invited by _____, and that those in the front rows—mostly senior CIA officials—were not cheering. In fact, yes, fact, on the video from the vent, you can see this official’s heads turn toward the cheering and the laughter while not joining in:

“An official with knowledge of the make-up of the crowd says that there were about 40 people who’d been invited by the _____, Mike Pence and Rep. Mike Pompeo teams. The _____ team expected Pompeo to be sworn in during the event as the next CIA director, but the vote to confirm him was delayed on Friday by Senate Democrats. Also sitting in the first several rows in front of the president was the CIA’s senior leadership, which was not cheering the remarks.”

Now, these senior officials did admit that there are _____ supporters within the CIA, and that they; along with the _____ invitees, were standing off to the right, which was the direction _____ directed his most needy remarks.

Also, as we have seen this week, the _____ team is saying that thousands of people were invited and over 400 RSVP’d, but “officials dismiss White House claims that there were people waiting to get into the event.”There wasn’t a throng of people clamoring to get inside, just like there weren’t throngs of people at the inauguration, or throngs of people watching at home.

This is _____; he lies about crowd sizes and ratings and popularity which is funny, because as his term progresses the crowds and numbers are only bound to get smaller.

And he only has himself to blame. _____ needed this visit to repair relations with the CIA after all the time he’s spent undermining the intelligence community, but instead he offended them with talk of his “historic’ win and his “:epic” mandate and his “bigly” ideas.

And that’s why many in the CIA are speaking out and saying he carried with him his own cheering section of employees and flunkies to cheer him on because, without them, .... silence.

Politicus USA

America Under Siege: Not An #AlternativeFact But An Outright Lie

Everyone is talking about the lies—dubbed “Alternative facts” by Hellhound Kellyanne Conway—that President _____ has made during the first few days in office ...

His inauguration was the most attended, ever. LIE. Period.

His inauguration was the highest rated ever for television. LIE. Period.

He won the popular vote because over 3 million votes were illegally cats—he said this again yesterday. LIE. Period.

But what about the lie he told within seconds of becoming president?

He stood on that podium, after swearing on a Bible—and why he didn’t spontaneously combust is beyond me—and vowed that his administration will “follow two simple rules: Buy American and Hire American” but ...

... the _____ hats worn at the inauguration were made in China and his presidencty was made in Russia.

He lied from the get-go.

Sure, presidents maybe bend the truth from time-to-time, or always, but to have a man swear on a Bible and then vow to only “buy American” in front of a crowd wearing his hats that were made in China, well ...

... don’t blame me, I voted for her.

Oh, one more thing before I go ... let's try to avoid using that Kelly-ism "alternative facts" any more because it takes away from the actual fact that _____ lies, lied, will lie, is a liar.

And lastly ...

Politicus USA