BLaurie Baron
SAN DIEGO-Press Secretary Sean Spicer lashed out at the press for underestimating the size of the crowd that attended Trump’s inauguration. After numerous newspapers used aerial photos to prove that fewer people attended Trump’s inauguration than Obama’s first inauguration, Kellyanne Conway contended that Spicer was merely presenting “alternative facts.” Alternative facts are to facts like disinformation is to information and like false is to true.
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The Mexican government extradited el Chapo to the United States. President Trump ordered the warden of el Chapo’s new prison to deport him back to Mexico because he is an illegal alien with a criminal record.
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Given all the things candidate Trump promised to do on his first day in office, his presidency already can be deemed a failure.
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Three million Americans marched in the protests against the inauguration of the new president who tweeted that the crowds in the photos of the demonstrations looked as thin as his skin.
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Saturday Night Live opened with a sketch of Beck Bennett playing a bare-chested Vladimir Putin assuring Donald Trump that he has his back. Donald Trump tweeted that it was insulting to both Putin and him to insinuate that he is Putin’s puppet and demanded that SNL invite Putin to be a guest host.
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Baron is professor emeritus of history at San Diego State University. He may be contacted via lawrence.baron@sdjewishworld.com San Diego Jewish World points out to new readers that this column is satire, and nothing herein should be taken literally.