'This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration - period!': New White House press secretary attacks 'fake reporting' for claims inauguration crowd was smaller than Obama's, despite photos showing marked difference

White House press secretary Sean Spicer gave reporters a five-minute tongue lashing on Saturday about 'deliberately false reporting' that he said has already
become commonplace in the 30-hour-old Trump presidency. Spicer blasted the White House press corps over a pair of tweets, criticized their coverage of Trump's afternoon visit with CIA employees, and upbraided them for decisions to report unconfirmed crowd-counts from Friday's inauguration. He insisted that no official numbers are available, despite some news outlets' reporting that the total audience in Washington, D.C. was approximately 250,000. The pugnacious Trump spokesman boasted that at least 720,000 were present, walking reporters through the crowd capacities of areas along the length of the National Mall, which stretches from the U.S. Capitol to the Washington Monument. Aerial photos from Friday appear to refute this claim, but the press secretary maintained that the digital images that traveled around the world were little more than a trick of the eye.