“Quick, Kellyanne, he’s gonna blow!”

Donald Trump and his newly minted Press Secretary/attack dog, “Spike” Spicer, just spent the first day of his administration whining about the turnout for his inauguration and attempting to bully the press into confirming his false assertion that it was the biggest turnout in history.

It was speculated that, in typical Trump fashion, this was a diversionary tactic to distract from the unflattering super story of the day, the “Women’s March on Washington.”

Aerial photos left little doubt that the first Obama inauguration drew a vastly greater turnout than did Trump’s little do, nevertheless Trump and his stooge eagerly and persistently plunged into perjury in defense of his fragile ego.

Aerial photos also delivered the unmistakable message that turnout for the “Women’s March” dwarfed the modest captive gathering on the mall the day before.

How must it feel for Donald Trump to gaze upon the photos from across the country of the throngs and throngs of demonstrators who rose in coordinated opposition to his agenda, all in a single day? Does he understand that the volume of demonstrators across America who braved traffic jams, dangerously crowded subway cars, and other inconveniences to take a stand against him probably numbered in the millions but still represented no more than half the number of votes by which Hillary Clinton won the popular vote?

If he does, Kellyanne must have him hog-tied in the White House mess to keep him from tweeting away his rage. All he wrote was

“Watched protests yesterday but was under the impression that we just had an election. Why didn’t these people vote?”

Newsflash, Donald, these people did vote and you lost the popular vote.

About Sue Prent

Artist/Writer/Activist living in St. Albans, Vermont with my husband since 1983. I was born in Chicago; moved to Montreal in 1969; lived there and in Berlin, W. Germany until we finally settled in St. Albans.

2 thoughts on ““Quick, Kellyanne, he’s gonna blow!”

  1. A phrase that will live in infamy, thanks to Ms Conway: “He [Press Secretary Spicer] is just providing alternative facts.”

    The White House is now a twisted “Fun” House Hall of Mirrors, each one showing distorted images in its own way.

    BTW, ABC News reported that the DC Metro logged its second highest number of riders ever on Saturday, the day of the Women’s March. It came in second only to January 20, 2009, the day Barack Obama was inaugurated as President, and I was there, with my then-civil union partner (now wife) and then- VDP Chairwoman Judy Bevins, three of the hundreds of thousands of DC metro riders.

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