Trump Personally Called National Park Service Chief About Inauguration Crowd Size

[herding cats]

In yet another sign that we are all just living in Leslie Knope’s nightmare, the Washington Post reports that on his first morning in office, President Trump personally contacted acting National Park Service director Michael T. Reynolds and ordered him to produce more photos from the inauguration, believing they would prove his false claims about the size of the crowd.

Reynolds was reportedly directed to call the White House on Saturday morning. In addition to requesting photos to settle his feud with the media, the president expressed his anger over the National Park Service Twitter account retweeting a photo showing that the inauguration turnout was about a third of what it was eight years ago. The retweets were later removed, and NPS spokesman Thomas Crosson apologized for “mistaken RTs from our account.”

After the call, Reynolds forwarded more aerial photos of the inauguration crowd to the White House, but they did not support Trump’s claim that more than a million people showed up to see him sworn in.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/01/trump-called-national-park-service-about-inauguration-size.html

[Cracklin Charlie]

1. Who ate the strawberries?

[SharonClark]

2. He's sad... small vulgar hands and small vulgar crowds