Donald Trump’s press secretary mocked online over use of some dubious 'facts'

All eyes were on Donald Trump last week but it is the new President’s press secretary who has become something of a star in his own – dubious – right.

Sean Spicer gave his first press conference over the weekend and it was immediately bad tempered.

Rather than talk about the President’s first day in office, Spicer instead focused a lot of anger at media reports about the amount of people who turned up at the inauguration.

Photographs from the day showed a scattering crowd compared to the record number who turned up for Barack Obama’s big day in 2009.

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However, the Trump administration claimed that the photos published from last week were from before the actual swearing in as President and published their own photos to prove it.

In a tetchy tone, Spicer then boasted to the journalists in the press room at the White House: ”This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration – period – both in person and around the globe.”

Spicer didn’t actually have the figures to prove that and his grand claims were jumped on by an unforgiving social media, who posted their own #SpicerFacts about things that may not strictly be true:

To prove that Sean Spicer is a star in his own right, he even has his very own @SeanSpicerFacts parody account.

There’s at least four more years of this…