'Embarrassing and pathetic': Twitter rips Spicer's claim that Trump inaugural crowd was 'largest ever'

Apparently stung by reports that the inaugural turnout for President Donald Trump was smaller than in recent years, the Trump administration held a press conference on Saturday evening in which newly minted Press Secretary Sean Spicer angrily insisted Friday's crowd was "the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration -- period."

While a definitive crowd size figure is hard to come by, current estimates hover at around 250,000 attendees, a number that was by the number of protesters attending the Women's March on Washington. Social media users responded with a mixture of scorn and disbelief that one of Spicer's first major press appearances would be to float such an easily disproven lie and then refuse to take questions.