Tapper mocks Team Trump on ‘alternative facts’

“Here’s an alternate fact, I’m Wolf Blitzer, and you’re in the Situation Room” –@JakeTapper https://t.co/Ygu75WG0g5

— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) January 23, 2017

CNN’s Jake Tapper mocked President Trump’s press team during the opening of his show on Monday for its use of the phrase “alternative facts.”

“Lot of talk by the Trump team of alternate facts this weekend. Here’s an alternate fact! I’m Wolf Blitzer, and you’re in the ‘Situation Room.’ ‘The Lead’ starts right now,” Tapper said.

{mosads}“The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer” airs the hour after Tapper’s show.

The joke was a reference to Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway’s weekend comments when she said White House press secretary Sean Spicer provided reporters with “alternative facts” about the crowd size at Trump’s inauguration Friday. 

“You’re saying it’s a falsehood. And they’re giving, Sean Spicer, our press secretary, gave alternative facts to that,” Conway said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”