There were at least 10 billion people there
Meanwhile Trump is still frantically rubbing his narcissism in full public view.
President Trump on Saturday called for a Washington Post reporter to be fired over a misleading tweet about the size of the crowd at a rally for the president on Friday in Pensacola, Fla.
The reporter, Dave Weigel, posted a picture of an arena with many empty seats. He deleted the tweet after learning that the venue had not yet filled up.
On Saturday night, the president posted a screenshot of Mr. Weigel’s tweet and other photos that showed a crowded arena. “Demand apology & retraction from FAKE NEWS WaPo!” he wrote.
But it was a tweet – not an article in the Post, a tweet.
.@DaveWeigel @WashingtonPost put out a phony photo of an empty arena hours before I arrived @ the venue, w/ thousands of people outside, on their way in. Real photos now shown as I spoke. Packed house, many people unable to get in. Demand apology & retraction from FAKE NEWS WaPo! pic.twitter.com/XAblFGh1ob
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 9, 2017
The president of the US, whining on Twitter about one guy posting one tweet. The president of the US, targeting one guy on Twitter for mass harassment. What will he do next, start throwing toddlers into federal prison for sucking their thumbs?
Trump demanded an apology and got it.
It was a bad tweet on my personal account, not a story for Washington Post. I deleted it after like 20 minutes. Very fair to call me out.
Everything I say on Twitter is a joke, except what I say about @swin24. https://t.co/tI7SQnpoN9
— David Weigel (@daveweigel) December 9, 2017
Trump responded by saying he should be fired.
Fired from his job for a personal tweet.
I guess before long it will be a capital crime to say Trump’s audience was very very very very small?
Mr. Trump’s outburst on Saturday was not the first time he had expressed anger at the news media for its coverage of attendance at his rallies and other events.
After taking office in January, he accused journalists of deliberately understating the size of the crowd at his inauguration and said that up to 1.5 million people were in attendance, a claim that photographs disproved. Analyses of news footage showed that fewer people attended Mr. Trump’s inauguration than President Barack Obama’s in 2009.
Don’t ever say Trump has a tiny audience.
https://www.facebook.com/144310995587370/photos/a.271728576178944.71555.144310995587370/1745981682086952/?type=3&theater
Legislate how science is reported and used with the Data Quality Act and The Honest Act.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-easiest-way-to-dismiss-good-science-demand-sound-science/
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/37231-evidence-suggests-big-oil-didn-t-just-borrow-big-tobacco-s-playbook-to-lie-about-climate-change-they-wrote-it
“Every fact results lawfully from previous facts” (Gustavo Romero, arXiv:1410.3919 15 Oct 2014), a guiding principle in STEM (or STEAM as it has been modified, I think by someone in Skepchick) to understand what “lawfully” means based on evidence; this ability to revise understanding is not a vulnerability but a strength.
It’s still a mystery to me how he can not see that he makes himself look so very small.
And can you imagine this kind of table-pounding rage from Obama?
He says someone should lose his job for saying something untrue on Twitter? Okay, Mr. President, how about you lead by example?
No I think this should absolutely set a precedent. Let’s fire everyone who tweets a false or misleading statement.
Every.One.