White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer lie-filled statement to the media on his first full day on the job. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

On his first day in office, President Trump sent out his Press Secretary Sean Spicer to lie for him about his inauguration turnout.

“This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration. Period,” Spicer screamed, before taking zero questions from the press. “These attempts to lessen the enthusiasm of the inauguration are shameful and wrong.”

In the course of getting the facts “straight,” he claimed incredulously that 250,000 people were packed in between “the media tent and the Washington Monument.” Aerial shots of thin crowds aside, there isn’t an official estimate to definitively refute the claim that Trump’s inauguration topped Obama’s record-breaking crowd of 1.8 million people.

But there were plenty of other (easily) verifiably false statements that all add up to a decidedly non-record-breaking attendance. For one, Spicer declared that Metro ridership was higher on Friday than during Obama’s 2013 inauguration. He used a previously unreleased total for Trump’s inauguration—420,000 (update: Metro has said the actual full day total is 570,000)—and the 11 a.m. total for Obama’s—317,000. In fact, Metro recorded just shy of 800,000 trips for the full day in 2013. If you were to compare apples to apples, namely the trips taken by 11 a.m., it would look like this:

Trump’s inauguration: 193,000 trips
Obama’s 2013 inauguration: 317,000 trips
Obama’s 2009 inauguration: 513,000 trips

Spicer also declared that this was the first time lawn coverings were used on the mall, which made the crowd seem thinner, since you could see the white coverings from the aerial shots. Another lie:

Spicer said this was the first time floor coverings were used on the national mall. I took this photo at the inauguration in 2013. pic.twitter.com/MVHPQQ6Y5F

— Ashley Killough (@KilloughCNN) January 21, 2017

Fortunately for the American people, there are photos, which we can see with our eyes, and the photos show empty stands on Trump’s parade route on Friday, empty seats at the inauguration, and plenty of open space. The Women’s March had a larger turnout. Period.

You can watch Spicer’s rant here, from the White House Press Briefing Room Lie Factory:

Get ready for four years (or however long this thing can possibly last) of trying to shine light on the truth via Twitter.

“Empty fields” – this is a liveshot of the Mall 10 mins before President Trump took the oath of office pic.twitter.com/hVTBXR0sew

— Maria Spinella (@mariaspinella) January 21, 2017