Donald Trump Washington, Jan. 22: President Donald Trump used his first full day in office to unleash a remarkably bitter attack on the news media, falsely accusing journalists of both inventing a rift between him and intelligence agencies and deliberately understating the size of his inauguration crowd. In a visit to the Central Intelligence Agency intended to showcase his support for the intelligence community, Trump ignored his own repeated public statements criticising the intelligence community, a group he compared to Nazis just over a week ago. He also called journalists "among the most dishonest human beings on earth", and he said that up to 1.5 million people had attended his inauguration, a claim that photographs disproved. Saturday was supposed to be a day for Trump to mend fences with the intelligence community, with an appearance at the CIA's headquarters in Langley. In recent weeks, Trump has questioned the intelligence agencies' conclusion that Russia meddled in the US election on his behalf.

Source: The Telegraph January 22, 2017 22:31 UTC