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Originally Posted by martyh
No it doesn't ,what matters is that Trump and his staff are prepared to lie about stuff and call anybody exposing such lies as liars
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I think it's silly and it shows that it's got to him. He could have just said that Obama's Inauguration was unique amongst Inaugurations given it's historical significance and that he was looking forward to getting on with the job and made no further comment. Instead he tweets about it and sends his press officer to attempt to refute it. Are we really meant to believe that Trump is so popular that he has the record for attendance at an inauguration?
As you said though this will be his, and his supporters, tactic for the next four years at least. Every negative story will be fake news. He has listed pretty much every news organisation as fake news, from Fox to CNN, The New York Times to the Washington Post. The only source of true news, conveniently, is the White House Press Office, Donald Trump himself and anonymous Twitter accounts.
The aim, aside of mollifying dissent amongst his base, is to muddy the waters enough so that people can't tell what's true anymore and either withdraw from the political debate entirely or fall into the
fallacy of false compromise whereby they assume both sides are partially right. So many Trump doesn't have the BEST! attendance at an inauguration but it must still have been very, very high etc etc.