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Trump pressured Park Service to find proof for his claims about inauguration crowd -- ROFL!!!!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-pressured-park-service-to-back-up-his-claims-about-inauguration-crowd/2017/01/26/12a38cb8-e3fc-11e6-ba11-63c4b4fb5a63_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_trumpcall725p%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.4dd15bb48ce6On the morning after Donald Trumps inauguration, acting National Park Service director Michael T. Reynolds received an extraordinary summons: The new president wanted to talk to him.
In a Saturday phone call, Trump personally ordered Reynolds to produce additional photographs of the previous days crowds on the National Mall, according to three individuals who have knowledge of the conversation. The president believed that they might prove that the media had lied in reporting that attendance had been no better than average.
Trump also expressed anger over a retweet sent from the agencys account, in which side-by-side photographs showed far fewer people at his swearing-in than had shown up to see Barack Obamas inaugural in 2009.
According to one account, Reynolds had been contacted by the White House and given a phone number to call. When he dialed it, he was told to hold for the president.
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Trump pressured Park Service to find proof for his claims about inauguration crowd -- ROFL!!!! (Original Post)
Bill USA
Jan 2017
OP
underpants
(182,834 posts)1. Pathetic
Just pathetic
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)2. What a prick
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)3. What a spoiled little Brat.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)4. How many citizens does it take to massage this gigantic baby's ego?
Can we just lock him in the White House with snacks and teevee for four years, already?