memeorandum: INAUGURATION AND WOMEN'S MARCH, BY THE NUMBERS (Max Kutner/Newsweek)

8:05 PM ET, January 21, 2017

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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:

Spicer Assails Media For ‘Misrepresenting’ Inauguration Crowd (VIDEO) — White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Saturday accused the media of misrepresenting the crowd at Donald Trump's inauguration in order to dampen enthusiasm for the event, getting some numbers wrong himself in the process.

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Max Kutner / Newsweek:

INAUGURATION AND WOMEN'S MARCH, BY THE NUMBERS — U.S. INAUGURATION 2017 DONALD TRUMP WASHINGTON D.C. BARACK OBAMA — Riders took fewer trips on Washington, D.C.'s Metro on Friday morning during President Donald Trump's inauguration than did during his predecessor's inaugurations, according to the transportation provider.

Discussion: ThinkProgress, IJR, Raw Story, Mediaite, Politico and Vox

Sarah Wheaton / Politico:

On Day 2, Trump sticks to media bashing and boasting — President Donald Trump declared fresh war on ISIS — and the news media — while trying to forge a new alliance with the intelligence community in a visit to the CIA headquarters, his first to an executive agency as president.

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Washington Post:

Metro Inauguration Day trips top 500,000, but still lowest since 2005 … Friday's Metro ridership was the lowest in at least two presidential Inaugurations, and also was lower than that of an average weekday, the agency said Saturday. — Metro said 570,557 people took trips in the system between its early 4 a .m.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

German Lopez / Vox:

DC's metro system keeps trolling Trump for his poor inauguration attendance — It keeps pointing out on Twitter how bad attendance was for Trump's event — and how good it is for the Women's March on Washington. — Washington, DC's metro system, WMATA, just keeps throwing shade …

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Betsy Klein / CNN:
Comparing Donald Trump and Barack Obama's inaugural crowd sizes

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Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
Interior Department reactivates Twitter accounts after shutdown following inauguration

Chicago Tribune:

Hundreds march through Loop as part of Women's March on Chicago — An estimated 250,000 people gathered to rally in downtown Chicago as a sister event to the National Women's March taking place in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 21, 2017. — Organizers officially canceled the march portion …

Discussion: The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Vox, Daily Kos, Washington Post and Refinery29

Washington Post:

Women's March on Washington: A sea of pink-hatted protesters vows to resist Donald Trump … Hundreds of thousands of people poured into Washington Saturday for the Women's March, a larger-than-expected crowd determined to mount a roaring rejoinder to the inaugural gathering for Donald Trump one day earlier.

Discussion: Washington Times and Political Wire

Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Politicians, Activists Rally Crowd at Women's March in Washington

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Washingtonian:
Photos: Scenes from the Women's March on Washington

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Julie Turkewitz / New York Times:
'We're Not Going Away': Huge Crowds for Women's Marches Against Trump

Daily Mail:
The enthusiastic crowd brought instruments as they cheered and chanted during the protest

Discussion: twitchy.com

Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:

At CIA headquarters, Trump boasts about himself, denies feud — President Donald Trump, in his first speech in his first full day as commander in chief, visited the Central Intelligence Agency on a mission to reassure the intelligence community that they have his full support …

Discussion: Washington Post and Washington Free Beacon

Jordan Fabian / The Hill:

Trump attacks Time reporter for mistake about MLK bust — President Trump on Saturday attacked a Time magazine journalist for mistakenly reporting that a bust of Martin Luther King, Jr. had been removed from the Oval Office. — Trump called out the reporter, Zeke Miller …

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Common Dreams and Mediaite

Lauren Fox / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Makes Bizarre Courtesy Call At CIA Headquarters (VIDEO)

Discussion: The Mahablog

Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
President Trump Tells CIA: ‘I Am With You 1,000 Percent’

Discussion: Jamie Dupree and Associated Press

The Independent:

Donald Trump is so unpopular that there are even women marching against him in Antarctica. — The day after the inauguration of a president who bragged about grabbing women by their genitals, thousands will be marching in Washington and in more than 60 countries around the world, to …

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Ashifa Kassam / The Guardian:

Canadians traveling to Women's March denied US entry after sharing their plans — After telling border agents their plans to march, group's cars were searched and phones examined, and each person was fingerprinted and had their photo taken — Would-be protesters heading to the Women's March …

Discussion: The Other McCain, Raw Story, AOL and New York Magazine

Steve Rukavina / CBC News:
Montrealers bound for Trump inauguration turned away at border

Discussion: The Guardian

Josh Gerstein / Politico:

Justice Department blesses White House post for Kushner — In a reversal of legal advice given to prior presidents, the Justice Department has concluded that it is lawful for President Donald Trump to appoint his son-in-law Jared Kushner to a White House post.

Discussion: ABC News, Hot Air, New York Magazine, AOL and The Week

Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Justice Department opinion backs Trump on hiring of son-in-law

Discussion: Politico and Fox News Insider

New York Times:
Jared Kushner, Trump's Son-in-Law, Is Cleared to Serve as Adviser

Discussion: Political Wire, The Guardian, Motherboard and ImmigrationProf Blog

Joe Concha / The Hill:

Fox declines to renew contracts for several contributors — Fox News has declined to renew contributor contracts for longtime political commentator George Will, Republican strategist Ed Rollins and actress Stacey Dash, according to a network spokesperson. — Will, 75, is a Pulitzer-winning …

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Michelle Fitzpatrick / Yahoo:

‘Europe will wake up in 2017’, Le Pen tells Germany right-wing congress — Koblenz (Germany) (AFP) - French presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen on Saturday told a European gathering of rightwing populists in Germany that a string of high-stakes elections in 2017 would blow a wind of change across the region.

Discussion: The Daily Caller

Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Breitbart to open bureaus in Berlin and Paris: report

Discussion: RedState

Bloomberg:
Merkel Scours Trump Archive for Clues on How to Read Him

Discussion: Axios and Political Wire

Amy B Wang / Washington Post:

Trump's inaugural cake was commissioned to look exactly like Obama's, baker says — Amid the glitz of President Trump's inaugural festivities, one item stood out in particular late Friday night: a spectacular nine-tier cake that the new president and Vice President Pence cut into with a sword.

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Donald J. Trump / CNN:

Full text: Trump's executive order on Obamacare — MINIMIZING THE ECONOMIC BURDEN OF THE PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT PENDING REPEAL — By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:

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