memeorandum: Trump's real war isn't with the media. It's with facts. (Ezra Klein/Vox)

10:30 AM ET, January 22, 2017

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Glenn Thrush / New York Times:

Trump Attacks News Media Over Reporting on Crowd Sizes — WASHINGTON — President Trump and his staff spent their first full day in the White House waging a bitter war against the news media over depictions of the crowd at the inauguration on Friday. — In a pair of angry public appearances …

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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:

White House press secretary attacks media for accurately reporting inauguration crowds — “That's what you guys should be writing and covering,” new White House press secretary Sean Spicer angrily lectured reporters on Saturday during his first remarks from the podium of the press briefing room.

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Ezra Klein / Vox:

Trump's real war isn't with the media. It's with facts. — Trump needs to delegitimize the media because he needs to delegitimize facts. — Speaking at the CIA this afternoon, President Donald Trump said, “I have a running war with the media.” — Like much that Trump says, this isn't quite true.

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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:

Trump wages war against the media as demonstrators protest his presidency — President Trump used his first full day in office to wage war on the media, accusing news organizations of lying about the size of his inauguration crowd as Saturday's huge protests served notice that a vocal …

Discussion: Politico

Jonathan V. Last / Weekly Standard:

Trumpism Corrupts: Spicer Edition — White House press secretary Sean Spicer speaks in the press briefing room on January 21, 2017 in Washington, D.C.. — The first official White House press conference is on Monday, but Sean Spicer called a Very Special Presser Saturday evening. Why?

New York Times:
Crowd Scientists Say Women's March in Washington Had 3 Times as Many People as Trump's Inauguration

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Bloomberg:
Trump Spokesman Accuses Media of False Inaugural Reporting

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Sarah Wheaton / Politico:
On Day 2, Trump sticks to media bashing and boasting

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

Discussion: Jamie Dupree and Associated Press

Z. Byron Wolf / CNN:

Comparing Trump's inauguration crowd to the Women's March — This post has been updated to add context. — Washington (CNN)It's going to be impossible to gauge how many people exactly attended the inauguration of Donald Trump in 2017 as opposed to Barack Obama in 2009.

Bloomberg:
Women's Marches Flood Cities Worldwide on Trump's First Day

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Los Angeles Times:
Women's marches live updates: Millions march in L.A. and around the world following Trump's inauguration

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

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The Independent:
Donald Trump is so unpopular that there are even women marching against him in Antarctica.

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Christopher Hope / Telegraph:

Watch | Trumps attend interfaith prayer service — Donald Trump is planning a new deal for Britain this week as Theresa May becomes the first foreign leader to meet him since the inauguration. — With hundreds of thousands of people across the world protesting his presidency …

Discussion: Axios and Politico

Reuters:

UK PM May promises frank talk with Trump after women protest — British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Sunday she would not be afraid to tell Donald Trump when she finds something he has said unacceptable, as she prepares to meet the new U.S. President in Washington this week.

Discussion: The Week

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: Townhall.com, Mashable, Hit & Run, ThinkProgress and Mediaite

Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
At CIA headquarters, Trump boasts about himself, denies feud

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

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New York Daily News:

Half a million people show up for Women's March on Washington as others flock to sister marches across globe — Anastasia Shawback boarded a 5:30 a.m. bus Friday, riding 22 hours from Illinois to join the Women's March on Washington against newly-installed President Trump.

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

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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: RedState, Mashable, New York Magazine, The Atlantic and Axios

Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Spicer Assails Media For ‘Misrepresenting’ Inauguration Crowd (VIDEO)

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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution / WPXI-TV:

Jesse Jackson: Trump's inauguration speech was ‘full of hope and inclusion’ — WASHINGTON - Not long after President Donald Trump was sworn in, we happened to run into the Rev. Jesse Jackson on the street. He gave a thumbs-up to Trump's inauguration speech but said the new commander in chief …

Discussion: RedState

Byron York / Washington Examiner:

Scenes from a pussy riot — Who knew President Trump's lewd 2005 “Access Hollywood” video, particularly his ugly “grab 'em by the pussy” line, would start a movement? A lot of political observers thought it would sink his presidential candidacy — wrong — but few might have predicted …

Discussion: Power Line

Bloomberg:

Trump's Inaugural TV Ratings Fall Short of Obama's in 2009 — Fox News tops cable, broadcast with 8.4 million total viewers — Obama's first inauguration in 2009 drew audience of 38 million — Nearly 31 million people watched President Donald Trump's inauguration …

Discussion: Politico, The Hill and Daily Kos