On January 24th, 2017, Spicer reiterated that DT believes the lie that 3-5 million people voted “illegally” thus costing DT the popular vote. (Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/24/us/politics/donald-trump-administration.html)
On January 24th, 2017, DT tweeted a picture from his personal Twitter account of a photo he says depicts the crowd at his inauguration and will hang in the White House press room. The photo is curiously dated January 21st, 2017, the day AFTER the inauguration and the day of the Women’s March, the largest inauguration related protest in history. (Source 1, original tweet: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/823937936056008704 Source 2, screenshot: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C29SZfMXUAA8HN_.jpg:large)
On January 24th, 2017, the EPA was ordered to stop communicating with the public through social media or the press and to freeze all grants and contracts. (Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/president-trump-administration-orders-epa-media-blackout-contract-freeze/)
On January 24th, 2017, the USDA was ordered to stop communicating with the public through social media or the press and to stop publishing any papers or research. All communication with the press would also have to be authorized and vetted by the White House. (Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/president-trump-institutes-media-blackouts-epa-usda-article-1.2954647 Source 2: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-epa-biofuels-idUSKBN1582M3?il=0)
On January 24th, 2017, HR7, a bill that would prohibit federal funding not only to abortion service providers, but to any insurance coverage, including Medicaid, that provides abortion coverage, went to the floor of the House for a vote. (Source 1: http://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a8635781/house-passes-hr7/ Source 2, text of the bill: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/7/text)
On January 24th, 2017, Director of the Department of Health and Human Service nominee Tom Price, who characterized federal guidelines on transgender equality as “absurd,” continues his confirmation hearing. (Source 1, Facebook post by Tom Price: https://www.facebook.com/reptomprice/posts/10154118633590421 Source 2, confirmation hearing: http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/24/politics/tom-price-nomination-hearing-finance/)
On January 24th, 2017, DT ordered the resumption of construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline, while the North Dakota state congress considers a bill that would legalize hitting and killing protesters with cars if they are on roadways. (Source 1, Dakota Access Pipeline executive order: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/24/us/politics/keystone-dakota-pipeline-trump.html Source 2, North Dakota protester assault legalization bill: http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/dakota-pipeline-protests/pipeline-protesters-decry-north-dakota-bills-criminalize-protests-n706681)
On January 24th, 2017, it was discovered that police officers had used confiscated cell phones to search the emails and messages of the 230 demonstrators now facing felony riot charges for protesting on January 20th, including lawyers and journalists whose email accounts contain privileged information of clients and sources. (Source: http://www.citylab.com/crime/2017/01/are-police-searching-inauguration-protesters-phones/514244/)
On January 24th, 2017, responding to criticism from the NAACP about a lack of attention to Civil Rights policy and bridge-building by the current administration, Spicer claimed of DT, “Just the other day, he sat down with Martin Luther King, Jr.," clearly unaware that Martin Luther King, Jr. is long dead, and that the man that DT met with was his son, Martin Luther King, III. (Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/spicer-trump-met-martin-luther-king-jr-article-1.2954571)
On January 24th, 2017, the Badlands National Park Service, perhaps as an act of resistance in response to DT's order last week to shut down all Twitter accounts temporarily in response to the main National Parks Service's sharing of photos comparing the size of the inauguration crowds in 2009 and 2017, tweeted 3 times from their account (@BadlandsNPS) on the subject of global warming, particularly ocean acidification and carbon dioxide levels. Captured in screenshots and shared by Twitter user @leahmcelrath, the tweets were deleted less than an hour after she shared them. (Source 1: http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/01/national-park-service-tweets-about-climate-change-over-trump.html Source 2: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38740205)
On January 24th, 2017, DT threatened a federal takeover of the city of Chicago from his personal Twitter account, proving that he has zero grasp of the constitution, states rights, or the 10th amendment. The information in his tweet and much of the wording is taken nearly word for word from a Bill O’Reilly segment on Fox News. (Source 1, original DT tweet: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/824080766288228352 Source 2, screenshot of DT tweet: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C2-_E9BWIAQhYUz.jpg:large Source 3, tweet referring to Fox News Segment: https://twitter.com/mlcalderone/status/824084122561871872 Source 4, screenshot of tweet referring to Fox News segment: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C2-8B87XcAEYiru.jpg)
On January 24th, 2017, DT specifically praised Fox News for their ratings during the inauguration coverage, while criticizing CNN’s and calling the latter “FAKE NEWS.” (Source 1, original tweet: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/824078417213747200 Source 2, screenshot of tweet: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C2_Jfq6WIAAdK0j.jpg)
On January 24th, 2017, the White House orders the EPA to take down its climate change webpage, fulfilling the fears of government climate scientists who scrambled to save their research before the inauguration. (Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-epa-climatechange-idUSKBN15906G)
On January 24th, 2017, scientists begin organizing a march on Washington to protest the administration’s hostility toward science. (Source 1, website: http://www.scientistsmarchonwashington.com/ Source 2, Twitter account: https://twitter.com/ScienceMarchDC Source 3, Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/01/24/are-scientists-going-to-march-on-washington/?postshare=7811485307292866&tid=ss_tw-bottom&utm_term=.c8dda0b1dc29)
On January 24th, 2017, DT announced that he will have a “big day” for National Security tomorrow, including the building of the wall, in a misspelled tweet, since deleted and reposted. God help us. (Source: http://mashable.com/2017/01/25/trump-border-wall-amoung-tweet/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link#u5k.KijOQiqD)
On January 24th, 2017, in response to public outcry, the Department of Agriculture lifted the gag order on its scientists. No such rescinding of media blackout has been granted to the Environmental Protection Agency. (Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/dinograndoni/trump-agriculture-department?utm_term=.smrGAKagV#.fqEWg1j8Z)
