10 Crazy Things That Happened on Trump's Inauguration Weekend

By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor Tuesday, January 24, 2017

2. Spicer Gets Spicy

Press Secretary Sean Spicer delivers a statement while a television screen show a picture of U.S. President Donald Trump's inauguration at the press briefing room of the White House in Washington U.S., January 21, 2017. | (Photo: REUTERS/Carlos Barria)

President Donald Trump's press secretary Sean Spicer got into it with members of the press the day after the inauguration.

Spicer took umbrage with the press' talk about the Women's March on Washington, going as far as to claim that Trump's swearing in ceremony was "the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period — both in person and around the globe."

"These attempts to lessen the enthusiasm of the inauguration are shameful and wrong," declared Spicer, who left the briefing without taking any questions and was widely mocked for his claim.

Spicer also took issue with the widely circulated story falsely claiming that Trump had removed a bust of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from the Oval Office.

"The confusion started on Inauguration Day after a reporter, Zeke Miller, said that the bust of King was no longer [in the Oval Office]," noted Politifact.

"The reporter later apologized and corrected himself by tweeting that the King bust was still there, claiming that it had just been obscured by an agent and door."

The damage had already been done, however, with over 3,000 news organization re-reporting the false claim.