Random Things That The Trump Administration Official Got History Completely Wrong (18 items)

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  (#7) Sean Spicer Straight Up Lies About Trump's Inauguration Crowd Size

  In more recent history, who can forget Inauguration-Gate? Oh those halcyon days when all anyone had to worry about was the size of Trump's inaugural crowd. The whole thing started when the Twitter feed for the National Parks Service tweeted a side-by-side comparison of Trump's inauguration crowd with President Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration. Much to the President's chagrin, even Bernie Sanders got in on the fun. 

  .@realDonaldTrump They did. It wasn't. pic.twitter.com/xqt29RJPEr

  — Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) February 25, 2017

  The day after the inauguration, the debacle was left to Sean Spicer to clean up, and instead of being honest about the crowd size, he threw down one of the first big lies to come from the Press Secretary's podium:

  “Yesterday, at a time when our nation and the world was watching the peaceful transition of power and, as the president said, the transition and the balance of power from Washington to the citizens of the United States, some members of the media were engaged in deliberately false reporting.”

  He went after The New York Times for tweeting photos of the crowd/doing their jobs, and then he dropped the lie that would become the basis for Trump's presidency: “This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration—period—both in person and around the globe.”
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  (#8) Donald Trump Claims That He Wasn't All For The Iraq War When He Definitely Was

  This lie technically happened prior to Trump's presidency, but it's so in your face that it has to be discussed. At a 2016 Indiana campaign stop, Trump claimed that he was against the Iraq war from the very beginning. He told his audience, “It should have never happened,” as Indiana Gov. Mike Pence stood by his side. “I didn’t want to go from the beginning, and I have proof – from the beginning. I didn’t want Iraq. I said you’re going to destabilize the Middle East, and that’s exactly what happened.” But here's the thing, in 2002, six months before the Iraq war, Trump appeared on The Howard Stern Show and said that said that he supported invading the Middle East. 

  This is also the guy who claims that he saw Muslims cheering during 9/11, so what else do you expect? If you want to drive yourself extra crazy, watch Donald Trump perform verbal gymnastics to Anderson Cooper in order to try and get around the fact that he was all for invading the Middle East. 

   
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  (#2) Trump Pushes The Lie About President Obama's Birth

  One of Trump's favorite lies that's been disproven time and time again is the fiction that President Obama was born in Kenya in 1961 and not Hawaii as he claims. Trump leaned into the birther nonsense in 2012 for an unknown reason – although he was likely attempting to stir the pot for his first presidential campaign. His false claim was adopted as gospel by people who couldn't comprehend how an African American had risen to the position until then only held by wealthy white men. Even though he didn't have to, President Obama released both his “short-form” and “long-form” birth certificates to prove where he was born, and Trump finally admitted that Obama was a citizen.

  In 2017, he revamped his birther beliefs.

  An 'extremely credible source' has called my office and told me that @BarackObama's birth certificate is a fraud.

  — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 6, 2012

   
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  (#17) Donald And Melania Trump Mix Up Some Facts About Pearl Harbor

  National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day - “A day that will live in infamy!” December 7, 1941

  — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 7, 2017

   

  On December 7, 2017, President Trump tweeted in recognition of the anniversary of Pearl Harbor: "A day that will live in infamy!" He was citing President Franklin Roosevelt's landmark speech, but he got it slightly wrong – Roosevelt called December 7 "a date which will live in infamy."

  As for First Lady Melania Trump, she tweeted, "Today we honor Pearl Harbor Heroes. 11/7/1941 Thank you to all military for your courage and sacrifice!" About half an hour later, the tweet was taken down and replaced with one showing the correct date.
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  (#1) Sean Spicer Claims Hitler Never Used Chemical Weapons

  On April 11, 2017, Sean Spicer didn't just shove his foot in his mouth. He somehow managed to swallow himself whole, leaving nothing more than a pin-sized hole where the former Press Secretary once stood. After President Bashar al-Assad of Syria used sarin gas to attack a village, Spicer claimed that al-Assad was worse than Hitler because Hitler, at least, didn't use chemical weapons.

  Spicer's statement ignores the fact that Hitler used gas chambers to commit genocide during the Holocaust. To make matters worse, Spicer said all of this in the middle of Passover. 
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  (#16) FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Is All Over The Place With Internet Regulations

  In 2017, Ajit Pai, the Chairman of the United States Federal Communications Commission, came out hard against the Obama administration's attempt to regulate the Internet, claiming that it "put the federal government at the center of the Internet.” Like a lot of Trump's cronies, Pai has a selective memory when it comes to the Obama administration. Pai claimed that in 1996 President Clinton and a Republican Congress were able to make the Internet the "greatest free-market success in history" with the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

  But Pai is either all mixed up about what the Telecommunications Act of 1996 actually did, or he's being willfully obtuse. Despite claiming that there was a heavy amount of deregulation going on in '96, there were actually more laws placed on what a company could and couldn't do with their phone lines. Then, in George W. Bush's first term, there were more regulations placed on phone and Internet providers. Just because you pretend like the world was the wild west in the '90s doesn't make it so. 

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