Skimming my usual news sources, I can’t find the answer to this (so naturally I came here 
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Has he tweeted about it or issued any kind of statement that indicates that he is aware it happened? I mean, I know he’s got to be aware of it-- but has he publicly admitted he knows it happened? Or is he just ignoring it like he does other unpalatable facts?
Found this in the Washington Post
On first day in the White House bubble, no mention of protesters outside
http://wapo.st/2jLnryI
I wonder if he’s really going to completely ignore the march and all the protests around the world. These events fairly cry out for a wounded, pouty tweet.
I could have sworn he or his spokespeople were crying about relative crowd sizes. But if not, then ignoring it is the best policy.
He has now, sort of: x.com
Not entirely sure what the last sentence fragment is supposed to mean.
That was inauguration crowds. For this he’s returning to the old “I won in a landslide”-canard.
I speak fluent right-wingese, so I’ll translate:
I think he was trying to say, “These women didn’t vote enough, and all those celebrity women are doing as much good now as they did in the runup to the election.”
He’s acknowledged as of 48 mins ago on his @realDonaldTrump twitter.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump
“Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump 51m51 minutes ago
Watched protests yesterday but was under the impression that we just had an election! Why didn’t these people vote? Celebs hurt cause badly.”
Yes we had an election Donnie, and guess what you lost the popular vote by 3 million people, so there’s a lot of pissed off people that are going to protest and keep protesting every single move you do. Deal with it.
Also it seems he intends to keep using both @realDonaldTrump and @POTUS, I bet that’s making a lot of intelligence / security people very unhappy.
Vladimir Putin mentioned the Women’s March several times in his address to the American People:
You people keep harping on the popular vote as if it meant something. It doesn’t, and it doesn’t by design. You’re beating a dead horse here.
You are right about the design part, our Founding Fuckups were not, for the most part, trying to establish a democratic and egalitarian state. They were men of wealth and privilege with a firm determination to stay that way. But the Revolution opened a door that was never entirely closed, the possibility is there, and our job is realize the Dream. Its taking a lot longer than it should, but only God Almighty can stop it, and I don’t think She’s interested.
Of course it means something.
It means his popular support isn’t as solidified as he would like to believe. It puts the congress on notice that there are huge number of people unhappy with what Trump campaigned on and promised to do, it gives Republicans justification to oppose him, and it gives democrats strong reason to put up opposition candidates midterm.
It’s a perfectly valid thing to quote because it indicates factually that more people oppose Trump’s agenda than support it and they’re justified in using whatever legal and non-violent means they can to do so. Obstruct, delay, protest, filibuster, whatever it takes.
You people keep harping on people discussing the popular vote as if it meant nothing. It means something, and we talk about it by design. You’re beating a dead horse here.
This doesn’t mean anything either, I suppose.
It’s a good start, but we have to maintain it.
I’m encouraged by the fact that it wasn’t just a National Women’s March across America, but an International event.
The Will of the People, as expressed via voting, matters if you believe that “… Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed”. The object of this exercise is that the Governed wants to put Trump and his followers on notice that they should not to take that consent for granted because this is not the last election they will ever have to win.
IOW if Trump claims that he has a Mandate, he’s wrong.
And we know how much he is bothered by being wrong!
No, but he is very bothered by any suggestion that he’s not popular.