President Donald Trump was back on Twitter Sunday morning, slamming the hundreds of thousands of demonstrators who mounted protests in Washington and around the nation on Saturday, and praising his inauguration ratings:
Overall, an estimated 3 million protesters demonstrated in cities nationwide on Saturday. Other protests were marked in at least a dozen countries, including Israel, according to news reports.
Large turnouts were reported in Boston, New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles as organizers for the main rally and march in Washington, D.C. grappled with huge numbers of demonstrators. Half a million people showed up at the National Mall and nearby streets for the Women's March on Washington.
Also Saturday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer angrily attacked journalists for their "irresponsible and reckless" Twitter coverage of President Donald Trump's Friday inauguration, vowing that "we're going to hold the press accountable as well."
"Yesterday, at a time when our nation and the world watched the peaceful transition of power — and as the president said, the transfer and balance of power from Washington to the citizens of the United States — some members of the media were engaged in deliberately false reporting," Spicer said in his first session with reporters since Trump's inauguration.
Spicer issued the bitter tongue lashing amid "all the talk about the proper use of Twitter" — and it came just hours after Trump slammed the media in a speech to more than 400 CIA employees in Langley, Va., in his first full day as president.
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