Before the break,
we talked a lot about the falsehoods
that Donald Trump and his team made over the weekend.
But on Sunday, we learned that Trump's senior advisor,
Kellyanne Conway, has a
The president asked The White House press secretary
to come out in front of the podium
for the first time and utter a falsehood.
Why did he do that?
Don't be so overly dramatic about it, Chuck. What it...
You're saying it's a falsehood, and they're giving...
Sean Spicer, our press secretary,
gave... alternative facts to that.
(laughter)
I like that she can taste the bull (bleep) in her mouth.
-I like that. -(laughter)
Just that moment where Kellyanne's like,
"He gave... Mm. What is that? Mm.
"...alternative facts.
Oh. Oh, what is that?"
My favorite part is, you can tell she's lying,
because right after she says it,
she tries to casually flip her hair afterwards,
like she's all chill.
Our press secretary gave...
alternative facts to that, but the point remains...
TODD: Wait a minute. Alternative facts?!
-...that there's... (clears her throat) -Alternative facts for
the five facts he uttered.
(laughter, applause)
It's the choke, the laugh, the hair.
I honestly wish my girl had a tell that big.
-(laughter) -I would win every argument.
I'd be like, "Hey, I heard you were at the club last night."
She'd be like, "No, I went to... my mother's."
(laughter, applause and cheering)
"I thought your mom was dead."
"Yeah, but she's... better now."
(laughter, applause)
Look, the truth is, not all facts are created equal.
To find out which ones are, we turn to Desi Lydic
and What the Actual Fact?
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-(applause) -Oh, no, no, no, no, no, Trevor,
you can't keep me in your little fact box anymore.
This is Trump's America now.
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That's better.
Time to shine a light on the
Let's talk about the size
of the 45th president's inauguration crowd.
NEWSWOMAN:
for underestimating the number of people
who attended his inauguration.
This despite these photos taken from the Washington Monument
showing smaller crowds
than during Barack Obama's inauguration in 2009.
Yeah, see, the media wants you to believe
that the crowd was small based on what your eyeballs
are telling your brain.
But here's an alternative fact.
A lot of people left early because, as Trump predicted,
they got tired of winning.
Another alternative fact.
(laughter)
You just couldn't see Trump's crowd
because they were wearing polar bear skin.
(laughter)
You know, the media didn't see Trump's crowds
during the campaign,
and I am not surprised they can't see them now.
And that is why Trump's claim
that he had the biggest inauguration crowd ever
is so true.
(laughter, whooping, applause)
Oh... and what a shocker,
no matter what Trump said this weekend,
people tried to delegitimize it.
They were even doing it with the weather.
God looked down and he said, "We're not gonna let it rain
on your speech."
In fact, I... when I first started, I said, "Oh, no."
First line, I got hit by a couple of drops.
And I said, "Oh, this... this is too bad,
but we'll go right through it."
But the truth is that it stopped immediately.
It was amazing. And then it became really sunny...
NEWSMAN:
uh, referred to the sun coming out
after his inaugural speech,
when in fact it was cloudy and raining.
-(laughter) -Oh. Oh, I guess CNN knows
what God was doing with the weather
better than Donald Trump, the man
-(laughter) -Also, that wasn't rain.
Those were tears of joy
splashing up from the record-setting crowd.
-(laughter) -Besides, if it was raining,
why was George W. Bush just holding his poncho.
(laughter, applause)
Then... then playing peekaboo with his poncho.
(laughter)
Then looking for WMD's in his poncho.
I mean, that is why I rate Trump's claim
that it didn't rain his whole speech
as tremendously true.
(laughter)
You know... but the worst is when the media lies
to drive wedges between Trump and other people.
I have a running war with the media.
They are among the most dishonest human beings on Earth.
And they sort of made it sound like I had a... feud
with the intelligence community.
And I just want to let you know,
the reason you're number one stop,
uh, it is exactly the opposite.
NEWSWOMAN:
the U.S. intelligence community...
NEWSMAN:
-WOMAN: Ooh. -Here's an alternative fact.
President Trump has never denied comparing the CIA to Nazis.
To him, that's a
If anything, he's more likely to retweet them.
I'll tell you what I'm concerned about,
and that is this witch hunt,
where the media takes things that President Trump has said
and
-(laughter) -And I got to say,
personally, as a woman, I find it very offensive
that the press gets to decide what President Trump
is or isn't allowed to say.
I mean, frankly, I'm glad we don't have a woman president,
because what I am seeing right now is blatant sexism.
And that is why I rate Trump's statement
that he's always respected the intelligence community
truer
-(laughter) -Trevor?
-(applause) -Wow, Desi, that was, uh,
-(cheering) -really... amazing.