As the media reels over White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer‘s disaster Saturday press conference, Donald Trump‘s infamous surrogate Kellyanne Conway appeared on Meet the Press this Sunday and attempted to do damage control.
Except Conway didn’t control any damage. Instead, she sparked the latest Trump-bashing Twitter hashtag with an astoundingly Orwellian term she coined during the interview.
During the interview, host Chuck Todd questioned Conway on Spicer’s assault on the press over their accurate reporting that Trump’s crowd sizes were smaller than the crowd at President Barack Obama’s 2008 inauguration.
“Don’t be so overly dramatic about it, Chuck,” Conway scoffed. “They’re saying it’s a falsehood and our press secretary, Sean Spicer, gave alternative facts to that.”
“Wait a minute,” Todd interrupted. “Alternative facts! Four of the five facts that he uttered were just not true. Alternative facts are not facts, they’re falsehoods.”
“You sent the press secretary out there to utter a falsehood on the smallest, pettiest thing,” Todd continued. “And I don’t understand why you did it.”
"Alternative facts are not facts. They are falsehoods," Chuck Todd tells Pres. Trump's counselor Kellyanne Conway this morning. WATCH: pic.twitter.com/Ao005dQ13r
— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) January 22, 2017
Sure enough, #AlternativeFacts became a thing on Twitter, and the rest was history:
'Nobody has more respect for women than me, believe me.'
-Donald Trump
#AlternativeFacts pic.twitter.com/vDl4tZiQut
— Little Ms Partly Cloudy (@Just1MoreAshley) January 23, 2017
Hillary is president right now. I choose to believe this. #alternativefacts
— Full Frontal with Samantha Bee (@FullFrontalSamB) January 22, 2017
George Orwell had something to say about #alternativefacts pic.twitter.com/pEqJNgXnCV
— Our Revolution (@OurRevolution) January 22, 2017
https://twitter.com/KenFernandezPHD/status/823329128526987264
This is not a #punch in the face
This is an #AlternativeHug 😐😐😂😂#AlternativeFacts pic.twitter.com/kRFULhNQ1F— TakeThatGods All of them! 🇺🇦 (@TakeThatGods) January 23, 2017
Don't worry Wisconsin. I just spoke with Sean Spicer and he said the Packers are actually up by 3 touchdowns. #GBvsATL #alternativefacts
— Kevin Flood (@FLOOKLYN) January 22, 2017
Just so you know, @KellyannePolls @seanspicer, there was another leader who was also big into using #alternativefacts. #Stalin pic.twitter.com/gDt7ME6cxn
— Joe Keene (@JoeKeene) January 22, 2017
War is peace
Freedom is slavery
Ignorance is strength
– George Orwell, 1984 #alternativefacts— Dr. Craig Considine (@CraigCons) January 22, 2017
There were actually 700,000 arrests at the Women's March in L.A. yesterday. #AlternativeFacts
— Sky Palma (@DeadStateTweets) January 23, 2017
https://twitter.com/johniadarola/status/823302932107915265
So many people attended wearing empty bleachers costumes. #alternativefacts https://t.co/PPxcqtRRx1
— Hend Amry (@LibyaLiberty) January 22, 2017
Oh, that Nazi that got punched in the head? That wasn't a punch. That was an alternative hug. There. Fixed it. #AlternativeFacts
— 𝚂𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚗𝚢𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚘𝚛𝚎 (@shannynmoore) January 22, 2017
https://twitter.com/LanceBass/status/823240285681393664
officer I am not drunk, I am alternative sober, #alternativefacts
— Kyle Humble (@crazysooner14) January 22, 2017
I stuck an extension cord in my gas tank so now my car is electric. #AlternativeFacts
— Tommy Campbell (@MrTommyCampbell) January 22, 2017
https://twitter.com/rmayemsinger/status/823285198389321728
https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/823265552894459904
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