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[–] PenguinJuice@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you for your actual response. Some people are too immature to subjectively help others understand.

You bet. And to be more specific, the “alternative facts” part came from a discussion about the size of Trump’s inauguration. Trump’s press secretary Sean Spicer repeatedly touted that Trump had the largest inauguration in history. When that was proven false, (Obama’s had a bigger crowd,) the reporter mentioned something along the lines of “well the facts say that Trump’s wasn’t the largest. Why would Spicer (the press secretary at the time) utter known falsehoods?” And Kellyanne retorted with something along the lines of “He wasn’t lying; He was simply giving alternative facts.”

It was one of the big times that democrats realized the White House would just straight up lie through their teeth about anything and they didn’t care if people believed it.