White House pledges to take media to task with a doublespeak ‘running war‘
President Trump has begun his stint in the White House with an Orwellian bid to cement his own 'alternative facts' facts by vowing a ‘tooth and nail’ fight with the established news media over facts and figures.
A ‘running war‘ was promised following a row over crowd estimates at Trump’s inauguration with White House press secretary Sean Spicer alleging that the media had manipulated crowd photos on National Mall to make crowds look smaller than the 1.8m who attended Barack Obama’s inauguration.
In a bid to paint the new administration in a more flattering light, officials have taken to presenting ‘alternative facts’and vowed to set a far more combative relationship with journalists.
Speaking to Fox News Sunday chief of staff Reince Priebus said: “ The point is not the crowd size. The point is the attacks and the attempt to delegitimize this president in one day. And we're not going to sit around and take it. We're going to fight back tooth and nail every day and twice on Sunday.“
Attempts to prove how many people attended Trump’s inauguration has proven highly contentious, with many more onlookers expected to have turned up than the 250,000 tickets which were officially sold.